USING ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS SOFTWARE - A Review of Scheduling, Resource Allocation and Synchronization

Pericles Leng Cheng, George Angelos Papadopoulos

2006

Abstract

Timeliness and criticality of a process are the two main concerns when designing real-time systems. In addition to that embedded systems are bounded by limited resources. To achieve these concerns while at the same time using a minimal amount or resources, real-time embedded systems use different techniques such as task scheduling, resource management and task synchronization. These techniques involve a number of the modules of the system which makes the use of Aspect-Oriented Software Development imperative. AOSD is a programming technique which uses the notion of join points to capture specific locations in code execution and then use advices to insert new code. This paper examines existing work in the development of schedulers, resource allocation agents and synchronization techniques using Aspect-Oriented Software Development in real-time embedded systems. An analysis of the existing research is used to describe the advantages of using AOSD over conventional OOP methods and to identify areas where further research may be required.

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Leng Cheng P. and Angelos Papadopoulos G. (2006). USING ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS SOFTWARE - A Review of Scheduling, Resource Allocation and Synchronization . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-43-6, pages 388-393. DOI: 10.5220/0002451703880393


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@conference{iceis06,
author={Pericles Leng Cheng and George Angelos Papadopoulos},
title={USING ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS SOFTWARE - A Review of Scheduling, Resource Allocation and Synchronization},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={388-393},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002451703880393},
isbn={978-972-8865-43-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - USING ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS SOFTWARE - A Review of Scheduling, Resource Allocation and Synchronization
SN - 978-972-8865-43-6
AU - Leng Cheng P.
AU - Angelos Papadopoulos G.
PY - 2006
SP - 388
EP - 393
DO - 10.5220/0002451703880393