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Predictable integration and reuse of executable real-time components
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Embedded Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7448-3381
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Embedded Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8461-0230
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Embedded Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7586-0409
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Embedded Systems.
2014 (English)In: Journal of Systems and Software, ISSN 0164-1212, E-ISSN 1873-1228, Vol. 91, p. 147-162Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We present the concept of runnable virtual node (RVN) as a means to achieve predictable integration and reuse of executable real-time components in embedded systems. A runnable virtual node is a coarse-grained software component that provides functional and temporal isolation with respect to its environment. Its interaction with the environment is bounded both by a functional and a temporal interface, and the validity of its internal temporal behaviour is preserved when integrated with other components or when reused in a new environment. Our realization of RVN exploits the latest techniques for hierarchical scheduling to achieve temporal isolation, and the principles from component-based software-engineering to achieve functional isolation. It uses a two-level deployment process, i.e. deploying functional entities to RVNs and then deploying RVNs to physical nodes, and thus also gives development benefits with respect to composability, system integration, testing, and validation. In addition, we have implemented a server-based inter-RVN communication strategy to not only support the predictable integration and reuse properties of RVNs by keeping the communication code in a separate server, but also increasing the maintainability and flexibility to change the communication code without affecting the timing properties of RVNs. We have applied our approach to a case study, implemented in the ProCom component technology executing on top of a FreeRTOS-based hierarchical scheduling framework and present the results as a proof-of-concept.

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2014. Vol. 91, p. 147-162
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Engineering and Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-24980DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.12.040ISI: 000334001600011Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84900676128OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-24980DiVA, id: diva2:716466
Available from: 2014-05-09 Created: 2014-05-09 Last updated: 2018-01-03Bibliographically approved
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1. Hierarchical scheduling for predictable execution of real-time software components and legacy systems
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hierarchical scheduling for predictable execution of real-time software components and legacy systems
2014 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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This dissertation presents techniques to achieve predictable execution of coarse-grained software components and for preservation of temporal properties of components during their integration and reuse.

The dissertation presents a novel concept runnable virtual node (RVN) which interaction with the environment is bounded both by a functional and a temporal interface, and the validity of its internal temporal behaviour is preserved when integrated with other components or when reused in a new environment. The realization of RVN exploits techniques for hierarchical scheduling to achieve temporal isolation, and the principles from component-based software-engineering to achieve functional isolation. The proof-of-concept case studies executed on a micro-controller demonstrate the preserving of real-time properties within software components for predictable integration and reusability in a new environment, in both hierarchical scheduling and RVN contexts.

Further, a multi-resource server (MRS) is proposed and implemented to enable predictable execution when composing multiple real-time components on a COTS multicore platform. MRS uses resource reservation for both CPU-bandwidth and memory-bus bandwidth to bound the interferences between tasks running on the same core, as well as, between tasks running on different cores. The later could, without MRS, interfere with each other due to contention on a shared memory-bus and memory. The results indicated that MRS can be used to "encapsulate" legacy systems and to give them enough resources to fulfill their purpose. In the dissertation, the compositional schedulability analysis for MRS is also provided and an experimental study is performed to bring insight on the correlation between the server budgets.

We believe that the proposed approaches enable a faster software integration and support legacy reuse and that this work transcend the boundaries of software engineering and real-time systems.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Västerås: Mälardalen University, 2014
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Mälardalen University Press Dissertations, ISSN 1651-4238 ; 169
Keywords
real-time systems, component integration and reuse, hierarchical scheduling, multicore
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Embedded Systems Computer Systems
Research subject
Computer Science
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urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-26548 (URN)978-91-7485-179-3 (ISBN)
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2014-12-17, R3-151, Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, 10:00 (English)
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Available from: 2014-11-13 Created: 2014-11-13 Last updated: 2014-12-03Bibliographically approved

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