A Testbed to Verify Timing Behavior of Cyber-Physical Systems

Published

June 18, 2017

Author(s)

Aviral Shrivastava, Mohammad Khayatian, Mohammadreza Mehrabian, Hugo A. Andrade, Patricia Derler, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Edward Griffor, Marc A. Weiss, John Eidson, Kevin Stanton

Abstract

Time is a foundational aspect of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Correct time and timing of system events is critical to optimized responsiveness to the environment, in terms of timeliness, accuracy and precision in the knowledge, measurement, prediction, and control of CPS behavior. However typically both the specification and verification of timing requirements of the CPS are done in an ad-hoc manner. While feasible, the system can become costly and difficult to analyze and maintain, and the process of implementing and verifying correct timing behavior can be error-prone. Towards the development of a verification testbed for testing timing behavior in tools and platforms with explicit time support, this paper first describes a way to express the various kinds of timing constraints in distributed CPS. Then we outline our idea and implementation of a distributed testbed to verify the timing of a distributed CPS analytically through a systematic framework. Finally, we illustrate the use of the timing testbed on two distributed CPS case studies..

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of Design Automation Conference

Conference Dates

June 18-22, 2017

Conference Location

Austin, TX, US

Conference Title

Design Automation Conference

Pub Type

Conferences

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3061639.3072955

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Keywords

Timing constraints, real-time, CPS, distributed system, testbed frameworks

Citation

Shrivastava, A. , Khayatian, M. , Mehrabian, M. , Andrade, H. , Derler, P. , Li-Baboud, Y. , Griffor, E. , Weiss, M. , Eidson, J. and Stanton, K. (2017), A Testbed to Verify Timing Behavior of Cyber-Physical Systems, Proceedings of Design Automation Conference, Austin, TX, US, [online], https://doi.org/10.1145/3061639.3072955, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=923125 (Accessed October 4, 2025)