The integration of control and dataflow structures in distributed hard real-time systems

Author

Puchol, C. ; Mok, A.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

28-29 Apr 1994

Firstpage

104

Lastpage

107

Abstract

The control structure of many real-time applications are naturally described by state machines. However the state transitions of these machines are governed not only by the state of the system and the occurrence of events, but also by their time of occurrence. The control structure of a real-time system determines what computation to perform and the set of timing constraints in effect at all times. The computation performed by the system can then be modeled by a directed graph, where the nodes denote transformations on the data and the edges denote data flow. In this paper we discuss some research issues that arise from the integration of control flow with data flow

Keywords

directed graphs; distributed processing; parallel processing; real-time systems; control structure; dataflow structures integration; directed graph; distributed hard real-time systems; real-time applications; state machines; state transitions; Automatic control; Automation; Contracts; Control systems; Delay; Distributed computing; Real time systems; Scholarships; Throughput; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, 1994. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6420-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPDRTS.1994.365643

Filename

365643