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A Linear Programming Approach to Computing Safe Sets for Software Rejuvenation

T. Arauz, J. M. Maestre, Raffaele Romagnoli, Bruno Sinopoli, Eduardo F. Camacho

2021IEEE Control Systems Letters12 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Software rejuvenation was born to fix operating system faults by periodically refreshing the run-time code and data. This mechanism has been extended to protect control systems from cyber-attacks. This letter proposes a software rejuvenation design method in discrete-time where invariant sets for the safety and mission controllers are designed to schedule the timing of software refreshes. To compute a minimal robust positively invariant (min-RPI) set and the bounded time between software refreshes to ensure system safety, an LP based approach is proposed for stable and unstable systems. Finally, the designed approach is illustrated by the case study of a simulated lab-scale microgrid.

Topics & Concepts

Computer scienceSoftwareScheduleSoftware systemBounded functionSet (abstract data type)Code (set theory)Distributed computingReachabilityEmbedded systemOperating systemProgramming languageTheoretical computer scienceMathematicsMathematical analysisSmart Grid Security and ResilienceSimulation Techniques and ApplicationsReal-Time Systems Scheduling