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An UPPAAL Model for Formal Verification of Master/Slave Clock

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Authors:

Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Julián Proenza , Hans Hansson

Research group:

Real-Time Systems Design

Publication Type:

Conference/Workshop Paper

Venue:

6th IEEE Intl Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS)

Publisher:

IEEE Electronics Society

Abstract

Many distributed applications require a clock synchronization service. We have previously proposed a clock synchronization service for the Controller Area Network (CAN), which we have claimed to provide highly synchronized clocks even in the occurrence of faults in the system. In this paper we substantiate this claim by providing a formal model and verification of our fault tolerant clock synchronization mechanism. We base our modeling and verification on timed automata theory as implemented by the model checking tool UPPAAL. In the modeling we introduce a novel technique for modeling drifting clocks. The verification shows that a precision in the order of 2 μs is guaranteed despite node’s faults as well as consistent channel faults. It also shows that inconsistent channel faults may significantly worsen the achievable precision, but that this effect can be reduced by choosing a suitable resynchronization period.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Rodriguez-Navas920,
author = {Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas and Juli{\'a}n Proenza and Hans Hansson},
title = {An UPPAAL Model for Formal Verification of Master/Slave Clock},
month = {June},
year = {2006},
booktitle = {6th IEEE Intl Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS)},
publisher = {IEEE Electronics Society},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/920-}
}