Engineering Real-Time Communication Through Time-triggered Subsumption - Towards Flexibility with INCUS and LLFSMs

David Chen, René Hexel, Fawad Riasat Raja

2016

Abstract

Engineering real-time communication protocols is a complex task, particularly in the safety-critical domain. Current protocols exhibit a strong tradeoff between flexibility and the ability to detect and handle faults in a deterministic way. Model-driven engineering promises a high level design of verifiable and directly runnable implementations. Arrangements of logic-labelled finite-state machines (LLFSMs) allow the implementation of complex system behaviours at a high level through a subsumption architecture with clear execution semantics. Here, we show that the ability of LLFSMs to handle elaborate hierarchical module interactions can be utilised towards the implementation of testable, safety-critical real-time communication protocols. We present an efficient implementation and evaluation of INCUS, a time-triggered protocol for safety-critical real-time communication that transcends the rigidity imposed by existing real-time communication systems through the use of a high-level subsumption architecture.

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Chen D., Hexel R. and Raja F. (2016). Engineering Real-Time Communication Through Time-triggered Subsumption - Towards Flexibility with INCUS and LLFSMs . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-189-2, pages 272-281. DOI: 10.5220/0005915602720281


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@conference{enase16,
author={David Chen and René Hexel and Fawad Riasat Raja},
title={Engineering Real-Time Communication Through Time-triggered Subsumption - Towards Flexibility with INCUS and LLFSMs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2016},
pages={272-281},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005915602720281},
isbn={978-989-758-189-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Engineering Real-Time Communication Through Time-triggered Subsumption - Towards Flexibility with INCUS and LLFSMs
SN - 978-989-758-189-2
AU - Chen D.
AU - Hexel R.
AU - Raja F.
PY - 2016
SP - 272
EP - 281
DO - 10.5220/0005915602720281