Citation
David Broman, Patricia Derler, John Eidson. "Temporal Issues in Cyber-Physical Systems". Journal of Indian Institute of Science, 2013.

Abstract
This paper reviews the use of time, clocks, and clock synchronization protocols in cyber-physical systems (CPS). Recent advances in the area of timing suggest avenues of research and potential new application areas. We discuss how introducing timestamps and clocks can help overcome issues such as latency, jitter, and determining correct execution order. Furthermore, we show how system complexity can be reduced and distribution as well as parallelism can be done deterministically. We also point to recent work in raising time to first class citizen status in modeling and implementation. In particular, we describe design and execution environments of CPS and specialized hardware such as predictable timing architectures where time plays a key role.

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  2013.

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  David Broman, Patricia Derler, John Eidson. "Temporal
  Issues in Cyber-Physical Systems". <i>Journal of
  Indian Institute of Science</i>,  2013.

• BibTeX

  @article{BromanDerlerEidson13_TemporalIssuesInCyberPhysicalSystems,
      author = {David Broman and Patricia Derler and John Eidson},
      title = {Temporal Issues in Cyber-Physical Systems},
      journal = {Journal of Indian Institute of Science},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {This paper reviews the use of time, clocks, and
                clock synchronization protocols in cyber-physical
                systems (CPS). Recent advances in the area of
                timing suggest avenues of research and potential
                new application areas. We discuss how introducing
                timestamps and clocks can help overcome issues
                such as latency, jitter, and determining correct
                execution order. Furthermore, we show how system
                complexity can be reduced and distribution as well
                as parallelism can be done deterministically. We
                also point to recent work in raising time to first
                class citizen status in modeling and
                implementation. In particular, we describe design
                and execution environments of CPS and specialized
                hardware such as predictable timing architectures
                where time plays a key role.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/997.html}
  }
  

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