Minimizing System Modification in an Incremental Design Approach

• In this paper we present an approach to mapping and scheduling of distributed embedded systems for hard real-time applications, aiming at minimizing the system modification cost. We consider an incremental design process that starts from an already existing sys-tem running a set of applications. We are interested to implement new functionality so that the already running applications are dis-turbed as little as possible and there is a good chance that, later, new functionality can easily be added to the resulted system. The mapping and scheduling problem are considered in the context of a realistic communication model based on a TDMA protocol.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

incremental design

hard real-time applications

embedded systems

TDMA protocol

Computer science

Datavetenskap

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kon (subject category)