Architectural modeling in industry-an experience report

Author

Kuusela, Juha ; Maccari, Alessandro ; Xu, Jianli

Author_Institution

Nokia Res. Center, Helsinki, Finland

fYear

1998

fDate

19-25 Apr 1998

Firstpage

512

Lastpage

515

Abstract

Nokia Research Center (NRC) has been leading Esprit project ARES (Architectural Reasoning for Embedded Systems) for two years. One of the main purposes of ARES is to demonstrate the use of architectural modeling in controlling properties of industrial scale products and product families. Two examples are documented. Forward architecting was applied in modeling the new architecture for our mobile phone family showing how to control the dynamic properties of the software. Reverse architecting was used to tune the performance of our telephone switch software. Both cases show that special purpose models can be constructed even for very large systems and they do give valuable insight to the properties of the software

Keywords

research initiatives; reverse engineering; software engineering; software performance evaluation; telecommunication computing; telephony; ARES; Architectural Reasoning for Embedded Systems; Esprit project; Nokia Research Center; colored Petri net; experience report; forward architecting; industrial scale products; mobile phone; product families; queueing networks; reverse architecting; software architectural modeling; software performance; telephone switch software; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Electrical equipment industry; Embedded system; Industrial control; Mobile handsets; Predictive models; Software architecture; Software systems; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8368-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.1998.671618

Filename

671618