Self-organizing middleware for cyber-physical networks

Abstract

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are omnipresent these days and are used in various application fields. In those, several CPS have to cooperate to achieve their goals. Thus, cyber-physical networking plays an important role. The applications of CPSs may use different programming abstractions for the interaction. Also CPSs are used in changing environments and are consequently afflicted with dynamic non-functional requirements. Therefore, an adaptive communication with an end-to-end view of the system is important. The goal of our research is a middleware designed to the needs of cyber-physical networking which eases the development, test and maintenance of CPSs.