Assured Reconfiguration of Embedded Real-Time Software

  • Authors:
  • Elisabeth A. Strunk;John C. Knight

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville;University of Virginia, Charlottesville

  • Venue:
  • DSN '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

It is often the case that safety-critical systems have tobe reconfigured during operation because of issues such aschanges in the systemýs operating environment or the failureof software or hardware components. Operational systemsexist that are capable of reconfiguration, but previousresearch and the techniques employed in operational systemsfor the most part either have not addressed the issue ofassurance or have been developed in an ad hoc manner. Inthis paper we present a comprehensive approach to assuredreconfiguration, providing a framework for formal verificationthat allows the developer of a reconfigurable system touse a set of application-level properties to show generalreconfiguration properties. The properties and design areillustrated through an example from NASA's Runway IncursionPrevention System.