Runtime environment for reflective real-time component

Abstract

Reflective real-time component model is a special component model, which can identify timing constraint characteristics of component and support dynamic design-time amendment of real-time component according to users’ requirements. The reflective real-time component runtime environment is a bearing space and reflective infrastructure for this special component model. It consists of three parts and manages the lifecycle and various relevant services of reflective real-time component. In this paper its mechanism and relevant key techniques in design and realization are formally specified with the communicating sequential processing (CSP) and the extended timed communicating sequential processing (TCSP). Finally a prototype is established. Experimental study shows that this runtime environment can introduce a relevant reflective infrastructure guaranteeing dynamic and real-time features of software component.