Evaluating Policies and Mechanisms for Supporting Embedded, Real-Time Applications with CORBA 3.0

To be an effective platform for performance-sensitive realtime systems, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) distributed object computing (DOC) middleware must support application quality of service (QoS) requirements end-to-end. However, conventional DOC middleware does not provide this support, which makes it unsuited for applications with stringent latency, determinism, and priority preservation requirements. It is essential, therefore, to develop standards-based, COTS DOC middleware that permits the specification, allocation, and enforcement of application QoS requirements end-to-end. The Real-time CORBA and Messaging specifications in the forthcoming CORBA 3.0 standard are important steps towards defining standards-based, COTS DOC middleware that can deliver end-to-end QoS support at multiple levels in distributed and embedded real-time systems. However, these specifications still lack sufficient detail to portably configure and control processor, communication, and memory resou...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: RTAS
• Authors: Carlos O'Ryan, Douglas C. Schmidt, Fred Kuhns, Marina Spivak, Jeff Parsons, Irfan Pyarali, David L. Levine
• Keywords: COTS DOC Middleware, DOC Middleware, Embedded Systems, QoS Requirements, RTAS 2000