Petri Nets Modeling for the Schedulability Analysis of Industrial Real Time Systems

Alessandro Fantechi, Stefano Pepi

2016

Abstract

In the experience of a railway signaling manufacturer, schedulability analysis takes an important portion of the time dedicated to configure a complex, generic, real-time application into a specifically customized signalling embedded application. We report on an approach aimed at substituting possibly unreliable and costly empirical measures with rigorous analysis. The analysis is done resorting to modeling the scheduling algorithms by Petri Nets. We have compared two types of Petri Nets: Timed Petri Nets (TPN) and Coloured Petri Nets (CPN), supported by open source tools, respectively TINA and CPN Tools 4.0 concluding that the latter are more suited for the dealt problem.

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Fantechi A., Fantechi A., Pepi S. and Pepi S. (2016). Petri Nets Modeling for the Schedulability Analysis of Industrial Real Time Systems . In Proceedings of the International Workshop on domAin specific Model-based AppRoaches to vErificaTion and validaTiOn - Volume 1: AMARETTO, (MODELSWARD 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-166-3, pages 5-13. DOI: 10.5220/0005841700050013


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@conference{amaretto16,
author={Alessandro Fantechi and Alessandro Fantechi and Stefano Pepi and Stefano Pepi},
title={Petri Nets Modeling for the Schedulability Analysis of Industrial Real Time Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Workshop on domAin specific Model-based AppRoaches to vErificaTion and validaTiOn - Volume 1: AMARETTO, (MODELSWARD 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={5-13},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005841700050013},
isbn={978-989-758-166-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Workshop on domAin specific Model-based AppRoaches to vErificaTion and validaTiOn - Volume 1: AMARETTO, (MODELSWARD 2016)
TI - Petri Nets Modeling for the Schedulability Analysis of Industrial Real Time Systems
SN - 978-989-758-166-3
AU - Fantechi A.
AU - Fantechi A.
AU - Pepi S.
AU - Pepi S.
PY - 2016
SP - 5
EP - 13
DO - 10.5220/0005841700050013