Doctoral symposium : an embedded DSL framework for distributed embedded systems

Abstract

Programming distributed embedded systems gives rise to a number

of challenges. e distributed nodes are typically resource constrained, requiring expert systems programming skills to manage

the limited power, communication bandwidth, and memory and

computation constraints. e challenge of raising the level of abstraction of programming such systems without incurring too high

of an execution performance penalty is thus an important one, and many approaches have been explored in the literature. e work presented in this paper investigates a framework and domain specic language (DSL) to enable programming of such

systems at a global network level. e framework enables the compilation, analysis, transformation and interpretation of high-level

descriptions of stream processing applications in which information is received and processed in real-time.

e ongoing research aims at investigating the following directions. Firstly, a framework to allow the manipulation and multiple

interpretations of a stream processor description to support the heterogeneity aspect of devices. Secondly, a language to hide the low-level detail from the developer, while allowing the developer to add hints to enable more ecient compilations. irdly, through transformations, dierent stream processing applications can be fused together to run on the same distributed network to make best of use of available resources.