Paper Info
Title
A UML Model-Driven Approach to Efficiently Allocate Complex Communication Schemes.
Abstract
To increase the performance of embedded devices, the current trend is to shift from serial to parallel and distributed computing with simultaneous instructions execution. The performance increase of parallel computing wouldn't be possible without efficient transfers of data and control information via complex communication architectures. In UML/SysML/MARTE, different solutions exist to describe and map computations onto parallel and distributed systems. However, these languages lack expressiveness to clearly separate computation models from communication ones, thus strongly impacting models' portability, especially when performing Design Space Exploration. As a solution to this issue, we present Communication Patterns, a novel UML modeling artifact and model-driven approach to assist system engineers in efficiently modeling and mapping communications for parallel and distributed system architectures. We illustrate the effectiveness of our approach with the design of a parallel signal processing algorithm mapped to a multiprocessor platform with a hierarchical bus-based interconnect.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-11653-2_23
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Model Driven Engineering,Hardware-Software Co-Design,Design Space Exploration,Parallel Computing,Embedded Systems
Systems engineering,Unified Modeling Language,Computer science,Model-driven architecture,Software portability,Systems Modeling Language,Interconnection,Design space exploration,Computation,Expressivity
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8767
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrea Enrici171.87
Ludovic Apvrille213622.23
Renaud Pacalet326024.51