A heuristic based method for automatic deployment of distributed component based applications

Abstract

This paper deals with the deployment of industrial control applications on distributed execution supports. These applications are developed according to the IEC 61499 standard. They are based on compositions of event triggered components. The execution support is a network of computational units scheduling OS tasks. The deployment problem consists then in associating components executions to OS tasks. We resolve this problem by proposing a method based on a heuristic and a schedulability analysis. This method has to take into account the execution support limitation while satisfying functional and temporal constraints on application components.