FLEXIBLE TIME-TRIGGERED communications for embedded systems

www.fe.up.pt/ftt

(previously funded from diverse sources, currently funded internally)

PI: Luís Almeida (U.Porto and IT: [email protected])

Led by: IT – Porto/Aveiro

Currently most active partnerships: Cister/ISEP – Portugal, University of the Balearic Islands – Spain, Mälardalen University – Sweden, University of Lund – Sweden

The Flexible Time-Triggered (FTT) communication paradigm consists basically of a time-triggered model, synchronized by a master, but allowing complex online system updates with low latency (FTT = TT + Online scheduling). The unparallel level of operational flexibility provided by the FTT paradigm is particularly well suited to cope efficiently with applications that are inherently dynamic, such as: Systems with variable number of users, systems that operate in changing physical environments and systems that can self-reconfigure dynamically to cope with hazardous events or evolving functionality or requirements to improve availability or dependability in general. This project aims at continually advancing the FTT paradigm and its associated protocols, such FTT-SE over Ethernet.