Real-time support in COM

Author

Chen, D. ; Mok, A. ; Nixon, M.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1999

Abstract

While there has been substantial work on real-time CORBA-to offer real-time support in a distributed heterogeneous environment with standard real-time middle-ware, comparatively less work has been done to investigate support for real-time applications in COM, the direct competitor of CORBA. In this paper, we examine the COM technology and explore the possibility of providing real-time support in COM. We argue that real-time COM should provide a policy specification interface between the application and the underlying (real-time) operating systems that is as declarative as possible, and we conclude that COM can be extended to provide various real-time support services through this interface. We shall discuss an experimental prototype targeted for real applications along the line of our proposal.

Keywords

distributed object management; operating systems (computers); real-time systems; standards; COM; CORBA; Component Object Model; distributed heterogeneous environment; heterogeneous object oriented distributed systems; inter-operability; policy specification interface; real-time COM; real-time operating systems; real-time support; Chemical technology; Control systems; Costs; Distributed control; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electronic switching systems; Operating systems; Process control; Proposals; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Sciences, 1999. HICSS-32. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0001-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1999.772819

Filename

772819