Analyzing Real-Time Scheduling of Cyber-Physical Resilience

Abstract

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) involve software executing on a computer that interacts with its physical environment. Common steps in the design and analysis of such systems are: model the physical environment, develop software to interact with this physical environment, specify timing requirements of software, configure the software (e.g., assign priorities), and then analyze the timing requirements for a given configuration. This approach works but tends to have low resilience to disruption. With the pervasive use of CPS, there is an increasing need to develop timing analysis methods that achieve increased resilience by modeling the linkage between the execution of software and the physical environment. In this paper, we present a new model that describes the current state of the physical environment interms of how tolerant it is to disruption of the software system; we call this model Cyber-Physical Resilience (CPR).We present an exact schedulability test for this model and implement a tool that performs this schedulability test. We evaluate it on randomly generated task sets and on a model of a multi-UAV system from[1].

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1087048

Entities

People

  • Björn Andersson
  • Dionisio de Niz
  • Sagar Chaki

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Case Studies
  • Computers
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Denial Of Service Attack
  • Department Of Defense
  • Differential Equations
  • Environment
  • Gantt Charts
  • Intervals
  • Law
  • Numbers
  • Real Numbers
  • Real Variables
  • Resilience
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Time Intervals

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber