Local Opacity Verification for Distributed Discrete Event Systems

This paper studies current-state opacity and initial-state opacity verification of distributed discrete event systems. The distributed system’s global model is the parallel composition of multiple local systems: each of which represents a component. We propose sufficient conditions for verifying opacity of the global system model based only on the opacity of the local systems. We also present efficient approaches for the opacity verification problem that only rely on the intruder’s observer automata of the local DESs.