Conclusion

Abstract

The main contribution of this book is the development of a generic system architecture for the integration of the time-triggered and event-triggered control paradigms. This integrated architecture supports both time-triggered and eventtriggered computational and communication activities. Thereby, a time-triggered and an event-triggered subsystem can coexist on a single, shared distributed computing platform. The application tasks executing in these subsystems adhere to different models of computation. While the time-triggered subsystem supports the time-triggered model of computation, the event-triggered subsystem is designed for client/server and event-based computing. This coexistence makes the proposed architecture suitable for mixed-criticality and legacy integration. Safety-critical time-triggered applications coexist with event-triggered legacy applications and newly developed, non-critical event-triggered applications.