Coordination of safety-critical mobile real-time embedded systems

Abstract

Safety-critical mobile applications running on resource-constrained em-\nbedded systems will play an increasingly important role in domains such as\nautomotive systems, space, robotics and avionics. Such applications are\ncomposed of mobile autonomous components interacting spontaneously\nwithout any infrastructure. Therefore, to undertake safety-critical mis-\nsions, the applications will have to coordinate the behaviour of their com-\nponents in real-time, while overcoming the limitations of (ad hoc) wireless\ncommunication. In this paper, we outline the key research challenges to\nbe addressed in order to achieve such real-time coordination.