@phdthesis{Voertler2017, author = {V{\"o}rtler, Thilo}, title = {Verification of software for Contiki-based low-power embedded systems using software model checking}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus4-44080}, school = {BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The main building blocks for the internet of things are connected embedded systems. Often these systems are also used in safety critical applications. Therefore, it is particularly important that these devices work according to their specification i.e. they behave as intended. Nowadays, even for simple devices embedded operating systems as Contiki are used to simplify application development and to increase portability between different hardware platforms. The main objective of this thesis is to present a methodology for the verification of software applications written for the operation system Contiki, taking the system hardware into account. Therefore, software model checking and especially bounded model checking [BCC⁺03] is used as a technique, which allows to formally verify software for embedded systems. For verifying the software against its specification, it is also necessary to build a model of the system hardware. Thereby, the difficulty is to create a model which is detailed enough to capture the hardware behavior so that the software performs correctly, while keeping the computation effort for the verification process manageable. In this work, the drivers which communicate with the hardware are therefore replaced with abstract models during the verification process. This enables the verification based on an abstract hardware platform independent of specific hardware. A special role within embedded systems play interrupts. Interrupts are used to save power and can also be used to react on external events. Current methods for verification of interrupt driven software are based on the interleaving model and partial order reduction to reduce the size of the verification problem. This thesis argues that this method is not sufficient for software, whose behavior relies on periodically occurring interrupts. Therefore, in this thesis, a new approach called periodic interrupt modeling is introduced. This approach can be applied automatically and reduces the number of incorrect verification results due to inaccurate modeling. In addition, properties can be proven that depend on the number of occurring interrupts. Using applications for the Contiki operating system, and based on a verification flow, the approaches toward interrupt modeling are compared.}, subject = {Embedded Systems; Interrupts; Model Checking; Contiki; Software; Contiki; Eingebettete Systeme; Unterbrechungen; Modellpr{\"u}fung; Software; Eingebettetes System; Interrupt ; Bounded Model Checking; Software}, language = {en} }