DREMS: A Toolchain and Platform for the Rapid Application Development, Integration, and Deployment of Managed Distributed Real-time Embedded Systems

The DREMS1 toolsuite is a software infrastructure for designing, implementing, configuring, deploying, operating, and managing distributed real-time embedded systems. It con-sists of two major subsystems: (1) a design-time environment for modeling, analysis, synthesis, implementation, debugging, testing, and maintenance of application software built from reusable components, and (2) a run-time software platform for deploying, managing, and operating application software on a network of computing nodes. The platform is tailored towards a managed network of computers and distributed software applications running on that network: such as a cluster of networked nodes such as fractionated satellites or a group of smartphones deployed in a coordinated fashion to provide ad-hoc distributed services that can be used in disaster relief. It is a complete, end-to-end solution for software develop