Model-Driven Development of Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems

Despite advances in standards-based commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies, key challenges must be addressed before mission-critical distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems can be developed effectively and productively using COTS component-based software. For example, developers of DRE systems continue to use ad hoc means to select and compose their applications and middleware due to the lack of formally analyzable and verifiable building block components. This chapter shows how Model-Driven Development (MDD) techniques and tools can be used to specify, analyze, optimize, synthesize, validate, and deploy standardscompliant component middleware platforms that can be customized for the needs of next-generation DRE systems. Our results show how MDD techniques and tools have been integrated successfully with standards-based QoS-enabled component middleware to significantly improve the quality and productivity associated with developing mission-critical DRE systems.

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