Realization of autonomous decentralized computing with the RTO.k object structuring scheme and the HU-DF inter-process-group communication scheme

The autonomy of various subsystems in complex real-time distributed computer systems (DCS's) is a highly desired attribute. Highly autonomous subsystems enable concurrent and largely independent testing/verification and maintenance of the subsystems. In recent years, we formulated two system structuring techniques which could be used as fundamental tools for enhancing the subsystem autonomy: (1) the RTO.k object structuring scheme and (2) the HU-DF inter-processgroup communication scheme. Three approaches of using the above two tools for enhancement of the three different basic types of autonomy in an object, (1) relocation autonomy, (2) service timing autonomy, and (3) data acceptance autonomy, are presented.