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Formal Modeling and Verification of Microservice-Based Cyber-Physical System

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Cyber-Physical System (CPS) has attracted extensive attention in diverse application fields. However, the modeling and verification of CPS is a great challenge because of its complexity and the changing interactive environments. Hence, how to simplify the complicated system design, improve the flexibility and correctness is a concerned research issue. Therefore, we provide a microservice-based framework of CPS application, named MSBF. The MSBF uses a level structure to explicit the interface and communication, and adopts the microservice architecture to guarantee the flexibility. To prove the correctness and reliability of MSBF, the formal method Communication Sequential Processes (CSP) is adopted to model and verify the MSBF. A method is proposed for transforming the main component of MSBF to CSP. Moreover, a case study of smart museum system is given, which has several requirements to be satisfied. The system is built by MSBF, and transformed to CSP. The modeling of the system includes the modules and interactive communications, and that illustrates the feasibility and sustainability of the framework. The Process Analysis Toolkit (PAT) is used to verify the properties of the constructed model. The verification results show that the deadlock does not exist and the requirements are satisfied.

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This work was supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ((No. 61572195, 61872145), the Open Project of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing (No. 07dz22304201603).

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  2. Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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Wang, J., Mao, H., Jiang, N. (2021). Formal Modeling and Verification of Microservice-Based Cyber-Physical System. In: Xue, J., Nagoya, F., Liu, S., Duan, Z. (eds) Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method. SOFL+MSVL 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12723. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77474-5_3

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