On flat lossy channel machines
Abstract: We show that reachability, repeated reachability, nontermination and unboundedness are NP-complete for Lossy Channel Machines that are flat, i.e., with no nested cycles in the control graph. The upper complexity bound relies on a fine analysis of iterations of lossy channel actions and uses compressed word techniques for efficiently reasoning with paths of exponential lengths. The lower bounds already apply to acyclic or single-path machines.
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