Feature Model Slicing for Real-time Selection of Mission-critical Edge Application

At first glance, running mission-critical applications at the edge appears to be an opportunity to benefit from scalability and reusability. The low latency to the edge makes it particularly interesting for mission-critical applications. The hardware heterogeneity of the edge, coupled with the strict requirement for the execution time of a mission-critical application, creates the need for flexible application control and, at the same time, increases the complexity of modeling such systems. With its Feature Models (FMs), software product line engineering offers a modeling option for various alternative compositions of an application. However, the calculation of valid configurations takes too long for the dynamic adaptation of an application flow of a mission-critical application. This paper presents an approach for slicing FMs to support mission-critical applications. Our approach supports the strict requirements on the execution time of mission-critical applications.