We present the concept of alternative functionality for improving dependability in distributed embedded systems. Alternative functionality is a mechanism that complements traditio...
It is often the case that safety-critical systems have to be reconfigured during operation because of issues such as changes in the system's operating environment or the fail...
The focus of typical architectural models is the description of large systems. Even though these systems are usually distributed, aspects of distributed systems are only addressed...
The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, an improvement to a previously published paper on the timing analysis of Controller Area Network (CAN) in the presence of trans...
We present a task model for adaptive real-time tasks in which a task's execution rate requirements are allowed to change at any time. The model, variable rate execution (VRE)...