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DSUENHANCER: A Dynamic Update System for Resource-Constrained Software

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Dynamic Software Update (DSU) is an advanced software practice to change a running program with imposing negligible service interruption while updating. In this paper, we present DSUEnhancer, a DSU implementation for resource-constrained C programs like embedded software. DSUEnhancer generates a patch file off-line and loads it into the dynamic memory of an updated program on-line. In particular, DSUEnhancer is relatively lightweight in terms of memory and CPU usage and runs on the ARM architecture with the gcc cross compiler.

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Kim, D.K., Kim, WT., Park, SM. (2011). DSUENHANCER: A Dynamic Update System for Resource-Constrained Software. In: Kim, Th., Adeli, H., Stoica, A., Kang, BH. (eds) Control and Automation, and Energy System Engineering. CES3 CA 2011 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 256. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-26010-0_24

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