Coordinated management of hardware and software self-adaptivity
Additional information
Authors
Derin O.,
Ferrante A.,
Taddeo A.
Type
Journal Article
Year
2009
Language
English
Subtitle
Challenges in self-adaptive computing (Selected papers from the Aether-Morpheus 2007 workshop), Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 July 2008
Abstract
Self-adaptivity is the capability of a system to adapt itself dynamically to achieve its goals. Self-adaptive systems will be widely used in the future both to efficiently use system resources and to ease the management of complex systems. The frameworks for self-adaptivity developed so far usually concentrate either on self-adaptive software or on self-adaptive hardware, but not both. In this paper, we propose a model of self-adaptive systems and we describe how to manage self-adaptivity at all levels (both hardware and software) by means of a decentralized control algorithm. The key advantage of decentralized control is in the simplicity of the local controllers. Simulation results are provided to show the main characteristics of the model and to discuss it.
Journal
Journal of Systems Architecture
Volume
55
Number
3
Month
March
Start page number
170
End page number
179
ISSN
1383-7621
Keywords
application, architecture, autonomic, goal, hardware, model, reconfigurable, run-time environment, self-adaptivity, software
