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Modeling and analyzing real-time wireless sensor and actuator networks using actors and model checking

Authors:

Ehsan Khamespanah,

Marjan Sirjani,

Kirill Mechitov,

Gul AghaAuthors Info & Claims

International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), Volume 20, Issue 5

Pages 547 - 561

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-017-0480-3

Published: 01 October 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Programmers often use informal worst-case analysis and debugging to ensure that schedulers satisfy real-time requirements. Not only can this process be tedious and error-prone, it is inherently conservative and thus likely to lead to an inefficient use of resources. We propose to use model checking to find a schedule which optimizes the use of resources while satisfying real-time requirements. Specifically, we represent a Wireless sensor and actuator network (WSAN) as a collection of actors whose behaviors are specified using a Java-based actor language extended with operators for real-time scheduling and delay representation. We show how the abstraction mechanism and the compositionality of actors in the actor model may be used to incrementally build a model of a WSAN's behavior from node-level and network models. We demonstrate the approach with a case study of a distributed real-time data acquisition system for high-frequency sensing using Timed Rebeca modeling language and the Afra model checking tool.

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International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) Volume 20, Issue 5

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115 pages

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Moradi FAbbaspour Asadollah SSedaghatbaf AČaušević ASirjani MTalcott C(2020)An Actor-Based Approach for Security Analysis of Cyber-Physical SystemsFormal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems10.1007/978-3-030-58298-2_5(130-147)Online publication date: 2-Sep-2020
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