Model-Based Analysis of Wireless System Architectures for Real-Time Applications

Abstract

We propose a model-based description and analysis framework for the design of wireless system architectures. Its aim is to address the shortcomings of existing approaches to system verification and the tracking of anomalies in safety-critical wireless systems. We use Architecture Analysis and Description Language (AADL) to describe an analysis-oriented architecture model with highly modular components. We also develop the cooperative tool chains required to analyze the performance of a wireless system by simulation. We show how this framework can support a detailed and largely automated analysis of a complicated, networked wireless system using examples from wireless healthcare and video broadcasting.