This paper presents a modeling framework for schedulability analysis of
distributed integrated modular avionics (DIMA) systems that consist of
spatially distributed ARINC-653 modules connected by a unified AFDX network. We
model a DIMA system as a set of stopwatch automata (SWA) in UPPAAL to analyze
its schedulability by classical model checking (MC) and statistical model
checking (SMC). The framework has been designed to enable three types of
analysis: global SMC, global MC, and compositional MC. This allows an effective
methodology including (1) quick schedulability falsification using global SMC
analysis, (2) direct schedulability proofs using global MC analysis in simple
cases, and (3) strict schedulability proofs using compositional MC analysis for
larger state space. The framework is applied to the analysis of a concrete DIMA
system.Comment: In Proceedings MARS/VPT 2018, arXiv:1803.0866
