Cost-Effective Design of Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Solutions - Cyber

Abstract

Short Work Statement The proposed research will investigate & develop: • a new periodic real-time control system (RTCS) computation model, which not only expresses efficiency and stability of the underlying physical system, but also generalizes existing periodic task models, by capturing a tolerable number of control update misses in different plant states (PS); • a new scheduling mechanism that prioritizes jobs of a set of computational tasks by accounting for not only the characteristics of each task, but also the number of consecutive prior job deadline misses. • a priority-assignment policy that lowers the system operation cost without compromising stability; • in-depth evaluation of the proposed computation model, its application and priority-assignment to demonstrate their power and utility in generalizing the existing periodic task models, but also significantly lowering the system operation cost without losing stability; and • cost-efficient ways of minimizing deadline misses as the first line of defense for mission-critical applications. Approach This proposal will attempt to investigate a new periodic real-time control system (RTCS) computation model, which not only expresses efficiency and stability of the underlying physical system, but also generalizes existing periodic task models, by capturing a tolerable number of control update misses in different plant states (PS) and develop a new scheduling mechanism which takes into account task misses. Objective The PI will develop a new RTCS model and scheduling algorithm, which takes into account missed tasks, and the effect and limit of missed task a system can tolerate, due to inertia within the system. Overall Merits and ONR Mission/Relevance The proposed research will provide scientific rigor to cyber-fault tolerant system ONR is pursuing. ONR cyber-fault-tolerant system (BFT++ efforts) takes advantage the inertia property in cyber-physical-system (CPS) and breaks the overly conservative requirement, that no deadline can be missed. This research will provide scientific foundation for BFT++ approaches. BFT++ is developed for providing cyber-attack-resiliency to Navy’s HM&E systems. The developed technologies will also be essential for enhancing cyber-attack-resiliency to many Navy’s integrated control systems infrastructures. A reliable and resilient integrated control system is essential to the success for Navy missions.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Aug 12, 2016
Source ID
N000141512163

Entities

People

  • Kang Geun Shin

Organizations

  • Board of Regents of the University of Michigan
  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Navy

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Clinical Trial Research.
  • Cybersecurity.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber