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Architectural Concepts for Federated Embedded Systems

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Jakob Axelsson,

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ECSAW '14: Proceedings of the 2014 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2642803.2647716

Published: 25 August 2014 Publication History

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Federated embedded systems (FES) is an approach for systems-of-systems engineering in the domain of cyber-physical systems. It is based on the idea to allow dynamic addition of plug-in software in the embedded system of a product, and through communication between the plug-ins in different products, it becomes possible to build services on the level of a federation of products. In this paper, architectural concerns for FES are elicited, and are used as rationale for a number of decisions in the architecture of products that are enabled for FES, as well as in the application architecture of a federation. A concrete implementation of a FES from the automotive domain is also described, as a validation of the architectural concepts presented.

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Brings JDaun MBandyszak TStricker VWeyer TMirzaei ENeumann MZernickel J(2019)Model-based documentation of dynamicity constraints for collaborative cyber-physical system architecturesJournal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal10.1016/j.sysarc.2019.02.01297:C(153-167)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.sysarc.2019.02.012

Index Terms

Architectural Concepts for Federated Embedded Systems
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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Axelsson J(2020)Towards a Unified Approach to System‐of‐Systems Risk Analysis Based on Systems TheoryINCOSE International Symposium10.1002/j.2334-5837.2020.00816.x30:1(1742-1757)Online publication date: 30-Sep-2020
https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2334-5837.2020.00816.x
Zhou PZuo DHou KZhang ZDong JLi JZhou H(2019)A Comprehensive Technological Survey on the Dependable Self-Management CPS: From Self-Adaptive Architecture to Self-Management StrategiesSensors10.3390/s1905103319:5(1033)Online publication date: 28-Feb-2019
https://doi.org/10.3390/s19051033
Brings JDaun MBandyszak TStricker VWeyer TMirzaei ENeumann MZernickel J(2019)Model-based documentation of dynamicity constraints for collaborative cyber-physical system architecturesJournal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal10.1016/j.sysarc.2019.02.01297:C(153-167)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.sysarc.2019.02.012

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