Components and Services in Resource-Constrained Environments

of Doctoral Thesis Title: Components and Services in Resource-Constrained Envi- ronments Author: Tomáš Pop tomas.pop@d3s.mff.cuni.cz Department: Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Charles University in Prague Advisor: Prof. František Plášil plasil@d3s.mff.cuni.cz Abstract Appliances of every day use such as consumer electronics, automotive and telecommunication devices as well as various kinds of control systems have be- come a common and important part of our everyday lives. In comparison to general-purpose desktop systems, they are limited in terms of various resources, for example memory, CPU power, and battery capacity. Component-based soft- ware engineering is a well-established development technique, which has found its way to industry and has been successfully used for a long time in multiple do- mains. However, the industrially adopted component frameworks were designed for general-purpose systems and they can be hardly used in resource-constrained environments. In the thesis, we explore the potential of component-based system engineer- ing in resource-constrained environments. Stemming from a survey of existing component frameworks targeted to this domain, we identify the most important approaches to overcome resource constraints in..