Reconfiguration is the action of modifying the operation or behaviour of a system, a network node, or functional entity. The end-to-end notion dictates that, in certain cases, control and management plane interactions may occur from source to destination in order to adapt the system, the equipment, the application, the service, or the content. This paper describes an integrated control and mana...

Reconfigurable computing is a paradigm in computing architecture that refers to the practice of using interchangeable hardware modules to enhance the performance of conventional Von-Neumann style computing. Despite the numerous advantages of reconfiguration, it is only suitable for quasi-static applications with slowly changing reconfiguration criteria. In general, it is only advantageous to re...

The paper deals with automatic reconfiguration problems of distributed control systems that are composed of a group/set of networked reconfigurable devices. A multi-agent architecture is proposed such that each device of a distributed control system has a special self-governed agent named reconfiguration sub-controller agent to manage its local reconfiguration. Accordingly, a communication prot...

In FPGA-based control system design, partial reconfiguration is especially well suited to implement preemptive systems. In real-time systems, the deadline for critical task can compel the preemption of noncritical one. Besides, an asynchronous event can demand immediate attention and, then, force launching a reconfiguration process for high-priority task implementation. If the asynchronous even...

Fault adaptive systems must adapt and reconfigure themselves to the changes in the environment or the system itself, and have to maintain operation even in case of system failures. In order to avoid performance degradation due to system reconfigurations, adequate reconfiguration management is necessary. This paper describes a fault-adaptive control system with multilayer control and a reconfigu...

Energy efficiency of software is an increasingly important topic. To achieve energy efficiency, a system should automatically optimize itself to provide the best possible utility to the user for the least possible cost in terms of energy consumption. To reach this goal, the system has to continuously decide whether and how to adapt itself, which takes time and consumes energy by itself. During ...

Network virtualization and programmability allow operators to deploy a wide range of services over a common physical infrastructure and elastically allocate cloud and network resources according to changing requirements. While the elastic reconfiguration of virtual resources enables dynamically scaling capacity in order to support service demands with minimal operational cost, reconfiguration o...