Predictable dynamic deployment of components in embedded systems

—Dynamic reconfiguration – the ability to hot swap a component, or to introduce a new component into the system – is essential to supporting evolutionary change in long-live and highly available systems. A major issue related to this process is to ensure applications consistency and performance after reconfiguration. Due to systems dynamicity it is hard to keep the model of a system updated which makes impossible to test the new component in real conditions. Consequently, component testing and verification has to be performed within reconfiguration. We are particularly interested in preserving performance attributes which is important in embedded systems with limited resources available. Additionally, performance constraints must be met even while the system is reconfiguring. Our main objective is to develop a dynamic deployment mechanism for embedded systems which is resource efficient and ensures predictability of system behavior by introducing performance attributes verificati...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Ana Petricic
• Keywords: Based Software Engineering, Component Based Software, Dynamic Deployment, ICSE 2011, Software Engineering