Coordination of safety-critical mobile real-time embedded systems

Abstract

Safety-critical mobile applications running on resource-constrained em- bedded systems will play an increasingly important role in domains such as automotive systems, space, robotics and avionics. Such applications are composed of mobile autonomous components interacting spontaneously without any infrastructure. Therefore, to undertake safety-critical mis- sions, the applications will have to coordinate the behaviour of their com- ponents in real-time, while overcoming the limitations of (ad hoc) wireless communication. In this paper, we outline the key research challenges to be addressed in order to achieve such real-time coordination.