Autonomic distributed real-time systems: challenges and solutions

For a long time embedded real-time systems have been designed as far as possible in a static manner. This means that they have been treated as predesigned, offline analysed, offline mapped onto target systems, supported by customized but at runtime static real-time operating systems (RTOS), running on preassigned HW platforms. In this contribution some arguments for introducing more dynamics into real-time applications are given. Such dynamics finally may result in so called autonomic systems. When building autonomic real-time systems, specific support is needed. In this contribution some examples for such support are provided: Modelling techniques for distributed, self-modifying real-time systems, self-modifying real-time operating systems, and usage self-modifying HW platforms