casa 16(7): e3

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A federation of simulations based on cellular automata in cyber-physical systems

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.12-2-2016.151086,
    author={Hoang Van Tran and Hiep Xuan Huynh and Vinh Cong Phan and Bernard Pottier},
    title={A federation of simulations based on cellular automata in cyber-physical systems},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications},
    volume={3},
    number={7},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={CASA},
    year={2016},
    month={2},
    keywords={Cyber-physical system (CPS), cellular automata (CA), federation, high-level architecture (HLA), mixed simulations},
    doi={10.4108/eai.12-2-2016.151086}
}
  • Hoang Van Tran
    Hiep Xuan Huynh
    Vinh Cong Phan
    Bernard Pottier
    Year: 2016
    A federation of simulations based on cellular automata in cyber-physical systems
    CASA
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.12-2-2016.151086
Hoang Van Tran1,*, Hiep Xuan Huynh1, Vinh Cong Phan2, Bernard Pottier3
  • 1: Department of Software Engineering, College of Information & Communication Technology, Cantho University, Cantho city, Vietnam
  • 2: Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Hochiminh city, Vietnam
  • 3: Département Informatique, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
*Contact email: tvhoang@ctu.edu.vn

Abstract

In cyber-physical system (CPS), cooperation between a variety of computational and physical elements usually poses difficulties to current modelling and simulation tools. Although much research has proposed to address those challenges, most solutions do not completely cover uncertain interactions in CPS. In this paper, we present a new approach to federate simulations for CPS. A federation is a combination of, and coordination between simulations upon a standard of communication. In addition, a mixed simulation is defined as several parallel simulations federated in a common time progress. Such simulations run on the models of physical systems, which are built based on cellular automata theory. The experimental results are performed on a federation of three simulations of forest fire spread, river pollution diffusion and wireless sensor network. The obtained results can be utilized to observe and predict the behaviours of physical systems in their interactions.

Keywords
Cyber-physical system (CPS), cellular automata (CA), federation, high-level architecture (HLA), mixed simulations
Received
2015-11-21
Accepted
2015-12-13
Published
2016-02-12
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.12-2-2016.151086

In cyber-physical system (CPS), cooperation between a variety of computational and physical elements usually poses difficulties to current modelling and simulation tools. Although much research has proposed to address those challenges, most solutions do not completely cover uncertain interactions in CPS. In this paper, we present a new approach to federate simulations for CPS. A federation is a combination of, and coordination between simulations upon a standard of communication. In addition, a mixed simulation is defined as several parallel simulations federated in a common time progress. Such simulations run on the models of physical systems, which are built based on cellular automata theory. The experimental results are performed on a federation of three simulations of forest fire spread, river pollution diffusion and wireless sensor network. The obtained results can be utilized to observe and predict the behaviours of physical systems in their interactions.