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Reducing Monitoring Overhead by Integrating Event- and Time-Triggered Techniques

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Runtime Verification (RV 2013)

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Runtime verification is a formal technique used to check whether a program under inspection satisfies its specification by using a runtime monitor. Existing monitoring approaches use one of two ways for evaluating a set of logical properties: (1) event-triggered, where the program invokes the monitor when the state of the program changes, and (2) time-triggered, where the monitor periodically preempts the program and reads its state. Realizing the former is straightforward, but the runtime behaviour of event-triggered monitors are difficult to predict. Time-triggered monitoring (designed for real-time embedded systems), on the other hand, provides predictable monitoring behavior and overhead bounds at run time. Our previous work shows that time-triggered monitoring can potentially reduce the runtime overhead provided that the monitor samples the program state at a low frequency.

In this paper, we propose a hybrid method that leverages the benefits of both event- and time-triggered methods to reduce the overall monitoring overhead. We formulate an optimization problem, whose solution is a set of instrumentation instructions that switches between event-triggered and time-triggered modes of monitoring at run time; the solution may indicate the use of exactly one mode or a combination of the two modes. We fully implemented this method to produce instrumentation schemes for C programs that run on an ARM Cortex-M3 processor, and experimental results validate the effectiveness of this approach.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue, West Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1

    Chun Wah Wallace Wu, Deepak Kumar & Sebastian Fischmeister

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue, West Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1

    Borzoo Bonakdarpour

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Wu, C.W.W., Kumar, D., Bonakdarpour, B., Fischmeister, S. (2013). Reducing Monitoring Overhead by Integrating Event- and Time-Triggered Techniques. In: Legay, A., Bensalem, S. (eds) Runtime Verification. RV 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40787-1_18

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