Parameter Generation for Hierarchical Scheduling Systems Based on Model Checking

Abstract

A parameter generation method based on model checking is proposed to tackle the parameter selection of hierarchical scheduling systems in Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) by combining the classical symbolic model checking and the Statistical Model Checking (SMC). It builds a generic timed automata network to describe the temporal behavior of hierarchical systems. A distributed genetic algorithm is adopted to search the optimum partition parameters with respect to processor utilization while guaranteeing the schedulability of the system, which is formulated as safety properties of symbolic model checking and hypothesis testing of SMC. Comparing with the widely-used response time analysis, the formal model of this method is more expressive to cover complex features. The application of SMC alleviates the "state space explosion" of classical model checking. Finally, the parameter generation experiments show that the present method is able to find the global optimum solutions in the parameter space.

Keywords

• integrated modular avionics
• hierarchical scheduling
• parameter generation
• timed automata
• statistical model checking
• distributed genetic algorithm