Advanced Hierachical Event-Stream Model

Abstract

Analyzing future distributed real-time systems, automotive and avionic systems, is requiring compositional hard real-time analysis techniques. Well known established techniques as SymTA/S and the real-time calculus are candidates solving the mentioned problem. However both techniques use quite simple event models. SymTA/S is based on discrete events the real-time calculus on continuous functions. Such simple models has been choosen because of the computational complexity of the considered mathematical operations required for real-time analysis. Advances in approximation techniques are allowing the consideration of more expressive descriptions of events. In this paper such a new expressive event model and its analysis algorithm are described. It integrates the models of both techniques. It is also possible in this module to integrate an approximative real-time analysis into the event model. This allows to propagate the approximation through the analysis of a distributed system leading to a much more efficient analysis.