High-level programming of real-time systems with asynchronous communication

✍ Scribed by NB Šerbedẑija

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 950 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0950-5849
• DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(90)90165-n

✦ Synopsis

Programming of process-control systems requires careful treatment of concurrency and real-time constraints. Most existing concepts, however, have synchronization mechanisms built into the communication primitives, degrading process independency and restricting the parallelism they are trying to provide. As a consequence, requirements such as event-driven or time-dependent execution can hardly be fulfilled. A solution is suggested, providing a set of high-level linguistic primitives based on asynchronous process communication. The proposed mechanism clearly distinguishes process synchronization from process communication. Thus concurrent behaviour is expressed in a looser way and process independency is significantly improved. concurrent programming, real-time systems, process control, message passing