Fault tolerant component management platform over Data Distribution Service

Distributed Real Time Systems (DRTS) are evolving to a higher level of complexity in terms of heterogeneity, dynamism and QoS constraints, as they must interact with an increasingly demanding environment. In an scenario with distributed applications running over different hardware platforms and networks, middleware technologies that provide real-time or QoS support are gaining importance, as they ease the development and deployment of complex distributed applications in heterogeneous networks while ensuring certain time and QoS constraints. In this sense, distribution middleware technologies like Data Distribution Service (DDS) have emerged, adding extensive QoS support to traditional middleware advantages. This paper proposes a component based applications management platform built on top of DDS that provides an easy way to deploy, configure and manage component based distributed applications, while ensuring the fulfillment of certain QoS aspects.