Dependability in Cyber-Physical Systems Network Applications

This paper deals with the role and implementation of the notion "dependability" in distributed cyber-physical systems. It aims at principles of cyber-physical system networking design that props safety and security of the consequence applications. After reviewing basic features of cyber-physical systems, the main attention is focused not only on concepts of IP networking fitting typical cyber-physical systems applications, but also on proposed design and development environment. Stemming from a brief state-of-the-art review of dependability as considered in the domain, the paper focuses on networking for cyber-physical systems applications. The aim of the article is to select the fitting methods that enable to support the related specification and design approach for a broad-enough class of distributed cyber-physical systems applications.