Avoiding shared clocks in networks of timed automata

  • Authors:
  • Sandie Balaguer;Thomas Chatain

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA & LSV (CNRS & ENS Cachan), Cachan, France;INRIA & LSV (CNRS & ENS Cachan), Cachan, France

  • Venue:
  • CONCUR'12 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Concurrency Theory
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Networks of timed automata (NTA) are widely used to model distributed real-time systems. Quite often in the literature, the automata are allowed to share clocks. This is a problem when one considers implementing such model in a distributed architecture, since reading clocks a priori requires communications which are not explicitly described in the model. We focus on the following question: given a NTA A1∥A2 where A2 reads some clocks reset by A1, does there exist a NTA A′1∥A′2 without shared clocks with the same behavior as the initial NTA? For this, we allow the automata to exchange information during synchronizations only. We discuss a formalization of the problem and give a criterion using the notion of contextual timed transition system, which represents the behavior of A2 when in parallel with A1. Finally, we effectively build A′1∥A′2 when it exists.