Fault-tolerant real-time objects
Communications of the ACM
Interconnection schemes for RTO.k objects in loosely coupled real-time distributed computer systems
COMPSAC '97 Proceedings of the 21st International Computer Software and Applications Conference
The TMO Structuring Approach and its Potential for Telecommunication Applications
ASSET '98 Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Workshop on Application - Specific Software Engineering and Technology
Real-Time Simulation Techniques Based on the RTO.k Object Modeling
COMPSAC '96 Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Computer Software and Applications
Composing simulation architectures for autonomic systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
An efficient real-time middleware scheduling algorithm for periodic real-time tasks
AIS'04 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on AI, Simulation, and Planning in High Autonomy Systems
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In order to realize real-time computing in the form of a generalization of non-real-time computing and yet allowing system engineers to confidently produce certifiable RTCS's for safety-critical applications, we have established a real-time object-oriented (OO) structuring approach called the RTO.k object structuring scheme in recent years. Also, a model of an operating system kernel which can support both conventional real-time processes and RTO.k objects with guaranteed timely services, has been formulated. The model has been named the DREAM kernel. The DREAM kernel supports three powerful building blocks of process-structured real-time distributed programs: real-time process, concurrent-read-&-exclusive-write (CREW) shared data structure monitor for intra-node inter-process communication, and data field channels (DFC's) which are real-time logical multicast channels for inter-node and intra-node inter-process-group communication. Programs composed of these components are called PCD programs. A DREAM library that consists of a collection of specific C++ classes provides a user-friendly interface to DREAM kernel services for real-time application programs. An implemented prototype of the DREAM kernel encapsulated by the DREAM library supports not only well-structured PCD programming but also efficient programming of RTO.k objects in C++. The essence of PCD and RTO.k object programming in C++ with the aid of the DREAM library is discussed.