Design and Simulation of the Timed Triggered Protocol (TTP) Using Agents

In this paper, we present our agent based approach for design and simulation of the basic services of the Time Triggered Protocol (TTP) for automotive distributed embedded systems such as the startup algorithm, the membership, the messages sending and reception, errors detection and handling. The proposed architecture is modeled as a multi-agent system and implemented in the JADE platform following mainly the so-called O-MaSE methodology. Using JADE, We developed an ontology that provides an automatic interpretation of frame fields.