A prototype architecture for cyber-physical systems

Abstract

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is an exciting emerging research area that has drawn the attention of many researchers. Although the question of "What is a CPS?" remains open, widely recognized and accepted attributes of a CPS include timeliness, distributed, reliability, fault-tolerance, security, scalability and autonomous. In this paper, a CPS definition is given and a prototype architecture is proposed. It is argued that this architecture captures the essential attributes of a CPS and lead to identification of many research challenges.

Index Terms

• Computer systems organization

  • Architectures

    • Distributed architectures

  • Embedded and cyber-physical systems

    • Embedded systems

  • Real-time systems

• Software and its engineering

  • Software organization and properties

    • Software system structures

      • Distributed systems organizing principles

      • Embedded software

      • Real-time systems software