TR05-07 (2005) – Embedding mobile ambients into the pi-calculus

Gabriel Ciobanu, Vladimir Zakharov

The mobile ambient paradigm of mobile computations is very expressive andallows various embeddings into it of other models of computations such asTuring machine, the lambda-calculus, and the pi-calculus. In this paper wedemonstrate that we have a closer relationship between mobile ambients andthe pi-calculus. We present an embedding of pure mobile ambients into afragment of the pi-calculus, namely the localized sum-free synchronousmonadic pi-calculus with matching and mismatching. The embedding isachieved by associating a pair of localized pi-terms Structure_A and Rulerto every mobile ambient A. Structure_A simulates the spatial structure ofA by means of communication channels. Ruler is a universal pi-processintended to simulate the operational semantics of the mobile ambients.This embedding of pure mobile ambients into a subset of the pi-calculusopens new ways to the analysis of ambients by means of techniques used inthe pi-calculus.

Bibtex

@TechReport{emapc,
author = "Gabriel Ciobanu and Vladimir Zakharov ",
title = " Embedding mobile ambients into the {$pi$}-calculus",
institution = "``Al.I.Cuza'' University of Ia{c s}i, 
                 Faculty of Computer Science",
year = "2005",
number = "TR 05-07",
note = "URL:http://www.infoiasi.ro/~tr/tr.pl.cgi"
}