• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.89-89
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• 2000

The Current CORBA has many drawbacks to be deployed successfully in real-time system applications. Recently, OMG adopted Real-Time CORBA specification. In this paper, we report our efforts on an implementation of Priority Model of Real-Time CORBA spec., which is one of the most important components in Real-Time CORBA spec. The improvement of real-time performances of our implementation is verified experiments.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2000

The Current CORBA has many drawbacks to be deployed successfully in real-time system applications. Recently, OMG adopted Real-Time CORBA specification. In this paper. we report our efforts of a design and implementation of Priority Model of Real-Time CORBA spec., which is one of the most important components in Real-Time CORBA spec. The improvement of real-time performances of our implementation is verified by expereiments.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.59-71
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• 2001

The Current CORBA shows some limitations for its successful deployment in real time system applications. Recently, OMG adopted Real-Time CORBA specification, which is defined as an extension to CORBA. The goal of the Real-Time CORBA is to provide a standard for CORBA ORB implementations that support 'end to end predictability'. In order to support 'end-to-end predictability', Real Time CORBA specifies many components such as priority model, communication protocol configuration, thread management, and etc. Among them, 'priority model' is the most important mechanism for avoiding or bounding priority inversion in CORBA invocations. In this paper, we present our efforts on a design ,and implementation of the Priority Model in Real-Time CORBA specification. The implementation is done as an extension of omniORB2(v.3.0.0), a popular open source non real time ORB. Experiment results demonstrate that our priority model implementation shows better performance and predictability than the non real-time ORB.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.372-378
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• 2001

오늘날, 이질적인 분산 컴퓨팅 환경을 통합하고 분산 공유 자원을 효율적으로 사용할 수 있는 공통 작업 환경에 대한 요구가 날로 높아지고 있다. 이러한 연구 중에서 주목받는 것 중 하나가 OMG의 CORBA이다. CORBA 시스템에서 실시간 멀티미디어 데이터들을 처리하기 위해 확장된 CORBA 표준을 RT(Real-Time) CORBA라고 한다. RT CORBA의 핵심은 수많은 실시간 태스크들의 블록을 최대한 방지하여 실시간 QoS를 보장해 줄 수 있는 실시간 스케쥴링 기법에 있다고 할 수 있다. 현재 RT CORBA를 위해 제안되는 많은 스케쥴링 기법들은 대개 이전의 단일 시스템에 기반한 전역 우선순위 기반 스케쥴링이 대부분이다. 하지만 이러한 Soft Real-Time 스케쥴링은 다양한 성능 요소가 산재하는 분산 시스템에서는 그 성능을 보장할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 CORBA와 같은 분산시스템의 보편적 특성을 고려한 Hard Real-Time 스케쥴링 기법인 CII(Cut In Interval) 기법을 제안하였다. 기존의 전역 우선순위 바탕의 스케쥴링이 비효율적인 태스크 할당 및 지역 스케쥴링을 제공하지만, CII 기법의 스케쥴링은 간단하면서도 보다 효과적인 전역 스케쥴링을 제공할 수 있다. CII 기법의 핵심은 이미 스케쥴링된 태스크를 가능한 제한시간까지 연기하여 얻어진 여유시간을 다른 실시간 태스크들의 처리에 활용하자는 것이다. 이러한 여유시간의 활용은 제안한 기법이 기존의 기법과 달리 보다 능동적이고 효율적인 스케쥴링 기법임을 증명한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.32-32
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• 2000

We present CReMeS, a CORBA-compliant design and implementation of a new real-time communication service. It provide for of a new real-time communication service. It provide for efficient, predictable, and scalable communication between information producers and consumers. Experimental results demonstrate that CReMeS can achieve better performance, predictability and scalability than a Real-Time implementaion of the CORBA Event Service.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.545-545
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 CORBA에 기반한 개방형 제어기의 응용 모듈 플랫폼을 제안한다. CORBA를 기반으로한 통신 시스템 플랫폼을 제안하였으며 Embedded system에 적용하였다. 실시간성을 고려한 응용 모듈 플랫폼에서 CORBA가 적용되기 위해 필요한 문제들을 논의한다. 끝으로, 현재 진행중인 CRECO(CISL Real-time and Embedded Corba) 프로젝트의 진척상황 및 방향을 소개한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.10B
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• pp.1675-1689
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• 2000

We present CReMeS a CORBA-compliant design and implementation of a new real-time communication service. It provides for efficient predictable and scalable communication between information producers and consumers. The CReMeS architecture is based on MidART's Real-Time Channel-based Reflective Memory (RT-CRM) abstraction. This architecture supports the separation of QoS specification between producer and consumer of data and employs a user-level scheduling scheme for communicating real-time tasks. These help us achieve end-to-end predictability and allows our service to scale. The CReMeS architecture provides a CORBA interface to applications and demands no changes to the ORB layer and the language mapping layer. Thus it can run on non real-time Off-The-Shelf ORBs enables applications on these ORBs to have scalable and end-to-end predictable asynchronous communication facility. In addition an application designer can select whether to use an out-of-band channel or the ORB GIOP/IIOP for data communication. This permits a trade-off between performance predictability and reliability. Experimental results demonstrate that our architecture can achieve better performance and predictability than a real-time implementation of the CORBA Even Service when the out-of-band channel is employed for data communication it delivers better predictability with comparable performance when the ORB GIOP/IIOP is used.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.602-613
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• 2001

Recently, the computing has developing in distributed object computing environment for supporting a programming paradigm of distributed application requiring interoperability between heterogeneous clients and servers. It involves the complex networking and the object-oriented technologies for various multimedia application service. In this paper, we construct the real-time object group platform for solving the difficulties of managements of distributed objects and the real-time constraints by requiring for real-time service supporting of applications in distributed computing environment. The existing researches are being tried to only improving the performance of systems by using real-time CORBA itself, or modifying the part of CORBA compliance. Hence, we design a new model of real-time object group platform that can support the real-time requirement without modifying the ORB. The structure of our real-time object group analyzed and defined the requirement about object management and real-time application service sides. And the role of the components of real-time object group is divided into 2 classes for reducing the side effect of interoperability between management and service. Also, we considered how to transparently express the parameters of real-time properties for clients and developers of server's service objects. If the expression of real-time parameters is transparent, then the developer can easily extend the real-time parameters simply and flexibly. Therefore, in this paper we defined the role of components of platform and described functions of each component and designed and then implemented the real-time object group platform. Finally, we showed the execution procedures of implemented our platform for verifying the functionality.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.8C no.1
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• pp.23-31
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• 2001

Current CORBA has been suggested a solution for complexity of software in distributed environment. But it can't provide reliability about data transfer. For instance, CORBA can't provide object to client when the network are unstable or congested. In an existing CORBA, client has to wait when there is congestion between client and object implementation while client get a service from object implementation. So In this paper, we propose Fault-Tolerant CORBA Service (FTS) which has an intelligent redirection about an object that client requests. Moreover, we designed and implemented Fault-Tolerant Service to provide reliability by extending existing CORBA ORB. Therefore it provides reliable connection throughout the proposed Fault-Tolerant Service.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.181-189
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• 2001

The software components of embedded control systems get extremely complex as they are designed into distributed systems get extremely complex as they are designed into distributed systems consisting of a large number of inexpensive microcontrollers interconnected by low-bandwidth real-time networks such as the controller area network (CAN). While recently emerging middleware technologies such as CORBA and DCOM address the complexity of distributed programming, they cannot be directly applied to distributed control system design due to their excessive resource demand and inadequate communication models. In this paper, we propose a CORBA-based middleware design for CAN-based distributed embedded control systems. Our design goal is to minimize its resource need and make it support group communication without losing the IDL (interface definition language) level compliance to the OMG standards. To achieve this, we develop a transport protocol on the CAN and a group communication scheme based on the well-known publisher/subscriber model. The protocol effectively realizes subject-based addressing and supports anonymous publisher/subscriber communication. We also customize the method invocation and message passing protocol, referred to as the general inter-ORB protocol (GIOP), of CORBA so that CORBA method invocations are efficiently serviced on a low-bandwidth network such as the CAN. This customization includes packed data encoding and variable-length integer encoding for compact representation of IDL data types. We have implemented our CORBA-based middleware on the mArx real-time operating system we have developed at Seoul National University. Our experiments clearly demonstrate that it is feasible to use CORBA in developing distributed embedded control systems possessing severe resource limitations. Our design clearly demonstrates that it is feasible to use a CORBA-based middleware in developing distributed embedded systems on real-time networks possessing severe resource limitations.