Quantity of resource properties expression and runtime assurance for embedded systems

Recent work on component-based software design has proved the need of resource-accurate development of embedded software. In the more specific cases of mobile systems, the developer also needs tools to facilitate the adaptation of functionalities to resources (lack of memory or bandwidth, etc.), and also to evaluate the performance w.r.t. the resource issues. As we want to design and develop at the same time the application and its resource controllers, we chose to use Qinna, which was designed to manage resource issues (specification, contractualization, management) during the development process of such an application. We propose a complete formalization of the resource constraints specification, through the use of a variant of the event-based logics, MEDL and PEDL. Qinna then automatically performs the runtime resource assurance. We illustrate this work in a case study.