OrganicBus: Organic Self-organising Bus-Based Communication Systems.

Complexity in distributed embedded systems is growing and with that the complexity of the communication. One way to connect systems is to use priority-based communication such as the CAN protocol. In this article, we try to overcome drawbacks of today's pure offline design methods that are based on worst-case estimations, which are not expandable, and may easily degenerate when the environment or requirements change at run-time. In contrast, a decentralised approach using online self-organisation is able to monitor the actual traffic of the communication system and adapt at run-time individually. First, we introduce a communication model based on streams. Then, solutions are presented to schedule this communication.