We describe an approach to designing CAN-based distributed real-time systems so that safety is preserved regardless of timeliness. Our approach offers gains with respect to both fault tolerance and flexibility aspects and so it is attractive to support those systems that have critical tasks (e.g. control systems) and at the same time are connected to non-predictable networks (e.g. the Internet).

BibTex Entry

@inproceedings{Lima2002,
 address = {Vienna, Austria},
 author = {G. M. A. Lima and A. Burns},
 booktitle = {Proc. of the 1st Intl. Workshop on Real-Time LANs in the Internet Age (RTLIA)},
 category = {scheduling},
 month = {Jun},
 title = {{T}iming-{I}ndependent {S}afety on {T}op of {CAN}},
 year = {2002}
}