In search of commercial off-the-shelf, hard real-time, distributed object computing middleware

Author

Thaker, Gautam H. ; Lardieri, Patrick J.

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

146

Lastpage

154

Abstract

Numerous technical and life cycle cost consideration trends have led to a large increase in the use of commercial, off the shelf (COTS) computing and networking infrastructure in military command and control (C2) applications. Object oriented (OO) real-time middleware, such as RT CORBA, provides the capabilities required for domain specific services and applications. However, it is unproven whether such commercial technologies can achieve the hard real time performance required by many C2 system. Our study reveals that DOC middleware is suitable for some real-time applications when appropriately coupled with operating system and network protocol quality of service (QoS) mechanisms - areas in which further progress is still needed

Keywords

client-server systems; command and control systems; distributed object management; integrated software; real-time systems; C2 system; COTS computing; DOC middleware; QoS mechanisms; RT CORBA; commercial off-the-shelf hard real-time distributed object computing middleware; military command and control applications; object oriented real-time middleware; quality of service mechanisms; Command and control systems; Computer networks; Costs; Delay; Distributed computing; Middleware; Military computing; Mission critical systems; Quality of service; Real time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Objects and Applications, 2001. DOA '01. Proceedings. 3rd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1300-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DOA.2001.954080

Filename

954080