An event model for real-time systems in mobile environments

Abstract

This paper describes an event model that has been designed to address the predictability requirements of applications operating in mobile environments based on hierarchically structured WAN-of-CANs networks. The event model supports an event channel concept for modeling the guarantees provided by the underlying heterogeneous communication infrastructure. The networks that comprise such a WAN-of-CANs may provide fundamentally different degrees of quality of service and as a result can be viewed as zones within which certain guarantees can be enforced. Event channels operating in CAN-based subnetworks typically with strong timing behavior may support hard temporal and reliability attributes whereas channels interconnecting these subnetworks using wireless networks support weaker timing attributes.