ThespecificationandanalysisofnetworkembeddedsystemZHANGGuan-huaZHANGLian-huaBAIying-cai(Dept.ofComputerScienceandTechnology,ShanghaiJiaotongUniversity,Shanghai200030,China)Abstract:Thispaperproposesaformalmethodwhichisusedtomodelandanalyzenetworkdevicessuchasrouters.Itisbasedonanalgebraicprocesscalled“ACSR-VP”,whichenhancestheoriginalCCSalgebraicprocessbyincorporatingthenotionsoftime,resourcerequirements,dynamicprioritization,andsynchronization.Therefore,althoughtherearemanyformalmethodstoanalyzethetimedconcurrencysystem,ACSR-VP,duetoitsprominentfeatures,isbestfitforanalysisofaresourceboundedreal-timesystem.ThispaperextendsACSR-VPtoEACSR-VP,whichismoreadaptivetothefeaturesofnetworkdevicesandspecializesinanalyzingthiskindofembeddedsystem.EACSR-VPaddsthenotionofn-waycommunicationwhichallowsm