On practical service-based computing in distributed embedded automotive systems

The automotive industry is, like several other domains, a source of both challenging problems and innovative technologies of various kinds. One interesting phenomenon in this domain is the extensive interdependencies between the constituent nodes, or ECUs, of its networked embedded system. This in turn leads to extensive interactions between ECUs over the network infrastructure of an automobile. We survey two significant approaches for applying Service-Based Computing (SBC) in automotive embedded systems and build on our experience in this domain to synthesis and identify potential gaps between the state-of-the-art and the actual state-of-practice in industry. We argue that standardization of the automotive system-level services is the gateway to practical application of SBC in this domain. Also we describe potential solutions for closing these gaps through a description of our ongoing work for practical SBC in automotive embedded system environment.