Towards a Virtual Integration Design and Analysis Enviroment for Automotive Engineering

As the automotive industry moves towards reduced physical prototyping it is becoming more dependent on distributed simulations. However, the current technologies do not fully enable real-time distributed simulations which involve both virtual and physical components. This paper considers the current approaches to real-time distributed simulation and proposes the use of service-orientation. The highlights and current shortfalls of current research in real-time service orientation are then identified. Finally a key area of research is focused upon requiring a fundamental change of the understanding of quality of service and capability that is necessary to enable dependable real-time service orientated architectures.