cfaed Publications

Deterministic Coordination Across Multiple Timelines

Reference

Marten Lohstroh, Soroush Bateni, Christian Menard, Alexander Schulz-Rosengarten, Jeronimo Castrillon, Edward A. Lee, "Deterministic Coordination Across Multiple Timelines", In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Oct 2023. [doi]

Abstract

We discuss a novel approach for constructing deterministic reactive systems that revolves around a temporal model that incorporates a multiplicity of timelines. This model is central to Lingua Franca (LF), a polyglot coordination language and compiler toolchain we are developing for the definition and composition of concurrent components called reactors, which are objects that react to and emit discrete events. Our temporal model differs from existing models like the logical execution time (LET) paradigm and synchronous languages in that it reflects that there are always at least two distinct timelines involved in a reactive system; a logical one and a physical one—and possibly multiple of each kind. This paper explains how the relationship between events across timelines facilitates reasoning about consistency and availability across components in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS).

Bibtex

@Article{lohstroh_tecs23,
author = {Marten Lohstroh and Soroush Bateni and Christian Menard and Alexander Schulz-Rosengarten and Jeronimo Castrillon and Edward A. Lee},
title = {Deterministic Coordination Across Multiple Timelines},
abstract = {We discuss a novel approach for constructing deterministic reactive systems that revolves around a temporal model that incorporates a multiplicity of timelines. This model is central to Lingua Franca (LF), a polyglot coordination language and compiler toolchain we are developing for the definition and composition of concurrent components called reactors, which are objects that react to and emit discrete events. Our temporal model differs from existing models like the logical execution time (LET) paradigm and synchronous languages in that it reflects that there are always at least two distinct timelines involved in a reactive system; a logical one and a physical one—and possibly multiple of each kind. This paper explains how the relationship between events across timelines facilitates reasoning about consistency and availability across components in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS).},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)},
month = oct,
numpages = {30},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1145/3615357},
issn = {1539-9087},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3615357},
}

Downloads

No Downloads available for this publication

Permalink

https://cfaed.tu-dresden.de/publications?pubId=3596


Go back to publications list