Modeling, analysis, and optimization of automotive networks

Since many years, the automotive industry is an important key driver in embedded system design and development. The vast majority of current technical innovations in modern vehicles such as advanced driver assistance systems or multimedia systems are realized or supported by electronic solutions. As a result, the amount of software and hardware in modern vehicles dramatically increased. To cope with the complexity and heterogeneity of state-of- the-art automotive networks, the work at hand provides novel system-level design methodologies. In detail, this work presents an efficient design space exploration model for the automotive domain, a compositional real-time analysis technique, a reliability analysis technique that enables the exploitation of data redundancy, a robust design methodology, and a bus scheduling for the automotive- specific FlexRay protocol.