Efficient data-flow analysis of UML/SysML diagrams for optimized model compilation of hardware-software systems

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Abstract

Growing needs in terms of latency, throughput and flexibility are driving the architectures of tomorrow's Radio Access Networks towards more centralized configurations that rely on cloud-computing paradigms. In these new architectures, digital signals are processed on a large variety of hardware units (e.g., CPUs, Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Graphical Processing Units). Optimizing model compilers that target these architectures must rely on efficient analysis techniques to optimally generate software for signal-processing applications. In this paper, we present a blocking combination of the iterative and worklist algorithms to perform static data-flow analysis on functional views denoted with UML Activity and SysML Block diagrams. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the blocking mechanism with reaching definition analysis of UML/SysML models for a 5G channel decoder (receiver side) and a Software Defined Radio system. We show that significant reductions in the number of unnecessary visits of the models' control-flow graphs are achieved, with respect to a non-blocking combination of the iterative and worklist algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMODELSWARD 2019 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development
EditorsSlimane Hammoudi, Luis Ferreira Pires, Bran Selic
PublisherSciTePress
Pages86-97
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9789897583582
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2019 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 20 Feb 201922 Feb 2019

Publication series

NameMODELSWARD 2019 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2019
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period20/02/1922/02/19

Keywords

  • Model-Driven Engineering
  • Optimizing Model Compilation
  • Static Data-Flow Analysis
  • SysML
  • UML

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