CAREER: Foundations of Operational Resilience and Secure Communication for Networked Real-Time Systems

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Abstract

Real-time systems underpin applications such as autonomous vehicles and industrial automation require timely responses to sensor data related to emerging scenarios with a precise coordination. In addition, these real-time applications face significant safety risks due to faulty or even compromised components, or to the interruption of inter-system communication. The project’s novelties center on developing foundational principles that enable multiple real-time systems to carry out coordinated operations correctly and safely with timeliness guarantees. The project's significance and importance lie in the establishment of real-time coordination principles and the creation of new security mechanisms that can be extended to security-critical applications. This project also strengthens the nation’s workforce in network and computer system security through integrated educational activities catered to students in higher education and the public. This project aims to develop a novel architecture called RESONET (REsilient and Secure Operation of NETworked real-time systems) that provides strong fault tolerance and real-time guarantees for real-time multi-systems to carry out coordinated operations. The research is organized into three complementary thrusts. The first thrust focuses on foundational cross-system fault tolerance principles, ensuring that coordinated operations meet timeliness requirements even in the face of component failures. It adopts a layered consensus-based app

Key facts

NSF award ID
2442382
Awardee
University of Kentucky Research Foundation (KY)
SAM.gov UEI
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PI
Yang Xiao
Primary program
01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
SaTC: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, CAREER-Faculty Erly Career Dev, EXP PROG TO STIM COMP RES
Estimated total
$534,264
Funds obligated
$427,891
Transaction type
Continuing Grant
Period
07/15/2025 → 06/30/2030