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Reference architectures for specific domains can provide significant benefits in productivity and quality for real-time systems development. These systems require an exact characterisation based on quantitative evaluation of architectural features referred to timing properties, such as performance, reliability, etc. In this work, an UML-based tool has been used to obtain a measure of performance between two alternative architectures. These architectures share the same functional components, but with different interaction patterns. The used technique is illustrated with an industrial study in a well-known real-time domain: teleoperation systems. The obtained results show clear differences in performance between two architectures, giving a clear indication of which one is better from this point of view.1
This work has been partially supported by FEDER (TAP-1FD97-0823) and GROWTH project (GRD2-2001-50004)
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Ortiz, F., Álvarez, B., Pastor, J.Á., Sánchez, P. (2003). A Case Study in Performance Evaluation of Real-Time Teleoperation Software Architectures Using UML-MAST. In: Rosen, JP., Strohmeier, A. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe 2003. Ada-Europe 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2655. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44947-7_32
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