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Formal modeling of industrial wireless applications

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The exponential increase in the number of wires needed for the deployment of industrial applications in production lines combined with the complexity of the application development using proprietary protocols, shifted manufacturers towards new directions. One such direction that is also reducing the system configuration and maintenance cost is the use of wireless connectivity. Nevertheless, industrial wireless applications face significant challenges, as communication channel interference, loss of bandwidth and the out-of-order delivery or loss of packets. Therefore, they can not meet their critical operational and non-operational requirements. To this end, several tools have been proposed for modeling and simulation of these applications, in order to solve their challenges before their actual deployment and execution in the system architecture. However, these tools do not provide the ability to validate their functional and non-functional requirements nor provide guarantees for resolving their challenges. This article presents a new methodology that is using formal methods to model industrial wireless applications and architectures, but also to validate the deployment feasibility for industrial applications on wireless architectures. The method is based on formal methods and is using the BIP (behavior, interaction, priority) framework and stochastic components which represent the application and the wireless architecture at different levels. The methodology is applied in an industrial control system, that is responsible for electricity production from hydro sources. The experiments illustrate the realistic behavior of the developed models in comparison to the real system as well as allow to validate the feasibility of wireless architectural deployment for industrial applications through pragmatic quantitative and qualitative requirements.

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    Alexios Lekidis, Anestis G. Anastasiadis & Kostas Hrissagis

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of West Attica, P. Ralli & Thivon 250, 12244, Aigaleo, Greece

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Lekidis, A., Anastasiadis, A.G. & Hrissagis, K. Formal modeling of industrial wireless applications. Energy Syst (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12667-023-00599-8

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