Inter-component communication has always been of great importance in the design of software architectures and connectors have been considered as first-class entities in many approaches [1][2][3]. We present a novel architectural style that is derived from the well-established domain of computer networks. The style adopts the inter-component communication protocol in a novel way that allows large scale software reuse. It mainly targets real-time, distributed, concurrent, and heterogeneous systems.
Citation:
R. Bashroush, I. Spence, P. Kilpatrick, T. J. Brown, "A Network Architectural Style for Real-time Systems: NaSr," wicsa, pp.321, Fourth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA'04), 2004