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It is of great importance to ensure safety and reliability of the scheduling protocol of safety-critical systems since the failure will cause serious damage. This paper analyzes a real-time scheduling protocol of a safety-critical system and models it using a Modeling, Simulation and Verification Language program. Further, the schedulability and other desired properties are specified using Propositional Projection Temporal Logic formulas. As a result, these properties are proved with theorem proving and further verified using the runtime verification approach at code level.
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This research is supported by NSFC Grant Nos. 61420106004, 61732013, 61751207 and 61572386.
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Wang, M., Tian, C., Zhang, N. et al. Verifying a scheduling protocol of safety-critical systems. J Comb Optim 37, 1191–1215 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-018-0343-1
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