Collaboration With the Communication Network Institute and Institute of Aircraft Systems Engineering

Safety critical systems are predominant in several application domains like automotive, avionics and smart grids, where guarantees on performance requirements to assure safety need to be provided from the hardware and software platform.

In the context of the 6GEM project, the Chair of Embedded Systems (ES) together with the Communication Network Institute (CNI) are successfully moving into the direction of providing guarantees for safety-critical systems including both embedded compute and wireless communication.  The goal of the collaboration is to apply safety-compliant resource management methods from the embedded domain to the next generation of AI-based intelligent wireless communication in 6G. The joint collaboration is very fruitful and have already resulted in 2 publications (among which one is best paper candidate) at DATE and RTSS, two very leading conferences in design automation and real-time systems. The published work deals with dynamicity in load arrivals and variations in channel conditions when mobility is involved. This latter constitutes one of the main challenge for providing performance guarantees in this field.

The institute of aircraft systems engineering (FST, Flugzeug-Systemtechnik) located in Hamburg working closely with Airbus has started a collaboration with the Chair of Embedded Systems in the context of Lufo Project, Luftfahrtforschungs programm, funded by the Federal ministry for economic affairs and energy. Exploiting the expertise of the Chair in performance analysis and validation of highly parallel and heterogeneous complex embedded systems (MPSoCs) and considering direct partnership, FST delegates for a duration of 2 years to the embedded systems chair the role of building a framework for interference analysis which is compliant with the AMC 20.193/CAST-32A safety standards that provides guidance for embedding multi-core COTS in avionic platforms.