Ensuring Real-Time Performance Guarantees in Dynamically Reconfigurable Embedded Systems

In this paper we present a quality of service (QoS) adaptive framework for dynamic reconfiguration of component-based real-time systems. Our framework is light-weighted enabling reconfiguration in resource constrained embedded environments. Furthermore, it is possible to reconfigure both components and aspects of a system, hence, enabling finer tuning of a real-time system. Real-time QoS guarantees are maintained in the system and under reconfiguration by employing feedback-based scheduling methods.

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