TREBLE: Fast Software Updates by Creating an Equilibrium in an Active Software Ecosystem of Globally Distributed Stakeholders

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02809v1
• Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:34:54 GMT
• Title: TREBLE: Fast Software Updates by Creating an Equilibrium in an Active Software Ecosystem of Globally Distributed Stakeholders
• Abstract summary: We present our experience with TREBLE, a two-year initiative to build the modular base in Android. Our TREBLE architecture splits the hardware independent core framework written in Java from the hardware dependent vendor implementations. We discuss our experience of delivering TREBLE architectural changes to silicon vendors and device makers using a yearly release model.
• Score: 0.0
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents our experience with TREBLE, a two-year initiative to build the modular base in Android, a Java-based mobile platform running on the Linux kernel. Our TREBLE architecture splits the hardware independent core framework written in Java from the hardware dependent vendor implementations (e.g., user space device drivers, vendor native libraries, and kernel written in C/C++). Cross-layer communications between them are done via versioned, stable inter-process communication interfaces whose backward compatibility is tested by using two API compliance suites. Based on this architecture, we repackage the key Android software components that suffered from crucial post-launch security bugs as separate images. That not only enables separate ownerships but also independent updates of each image by interested ecosystem entities. We discuss our experience of delivering TREBLE architectural changes to silicon vendors and device makers using a yearly release model. Our experiments and industry rollouts support our hypothesis that giving more freedom to all ecosystem entities and creating an equilibrium are a transformation necessary to further scale the world largest open ecosystem with over two billion active devices.

Related papers

• Mobile App Rewrites via Dual Boot [0.0]
  We show how to host two mobile application variants within a single binary with a boot-time variant selection.<n>We frame the complete lifecycle as the first application of the Strangler Fig pattern to native mobile platforms.<n>The system contributed to a complete iOS application rewrite, from initial embedding through multi-segment experimentation to full deprecation of the legacy variant.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2026-08-15T09:15:17Z)
• Relocate and Emulate: Re-Hosting Android's Application Layer [2.2667493914867567]
  Dynamic analysis of Android's application layer typically relies on physical devices.<n>We introduce a systematic re-hosting method that relocates the Android framework and pre-installed software from real device firmware into a emulated environment.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2026-06-08T14:14:38Z)
• OS-Oracle: A Comprehensive Framework for Cross-Platform GUI Critic Models [54.44308299945632]
  We introduce OS-Oracle that makes three core contributions: a scalable data pipeline for cross-platform GUI critic data; a two-stage training paradigm combining supervised fine-tuning and consistency-preserving group relative policy optimization; and OS-Critic Bench, a holistic benchmark for evaluating critic model performance across Mobile, Web, and Desktop platforms.<n>The resulting critic model, OS-Oracle-7B, achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source VLMs on OS-Critic Bench, and surpasses proprietary models on the mobile domain.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2025-12-18T08:29:50Z)
• A General Solution for the Implementation of CI/CD in Embedded Linux Development [0.6445605125467574]
  This research was conducted with the aim of designing and implementing an integrated and reproducible infrastructure for the development, building, and testing of a Linux-based operating system using the Yocto Project.<n>The proposed structure was implemented based on a three-layer architecture consisting of the main Yocto repositories, a custom layer (meta-custom), and a coordinating manifest layer.<n> Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines were implemented with GitLab CI and combined with an isolated Docker environment to automate and streamline the build and testing.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2025-10-22T04:48:41Z)
• An OpenSource CI/CD Pipeline for Variant-Rich Software-Defined Vehicles [0.0]
  Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) offer a wide range of connected functionalities, including enhanced driving behavior and fleet management.<n>These features are continuously updated via over-the-air (OTA) mechanisms.<n>This paper presents an open-source CI/CD pipeline tailored for SDVs.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2025-07-25T17:26:36Z)
• Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models: Tech Report 2025 [246.04717786298764]
  We introduce two foundation language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and services.<n>Both models are trained on large-scale multilingual and multimodal datasets sourced via responsible web crawling.<n>A new Swift-centric Foundation Models framework exposes guided generation, constrained tool calling, and LoRA adapter fine-tuning.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2025-07-17T23:37:19Z)
• Extending Lifetime of Embedded Systems by WebAssembly-based Functional Extensions Including Drivers [46.538276603099916]
  We present Wasm-IO, a framework designed to facilitate peripheral I/O operations within WebAssembly (Wasm) containers. We detail synchronous I/O and methods for embedding platform-independent peripheral configurations within Wasm binaries.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2025-03-10T17:22:00Z)
• Measuring Software Innovation with Open Source Software Development Data [0.0]
  This paper introduces a novel measure of software innovation based on open source software (OSS) development activity on GitHub. We examine the dependency growth and release complexity among $sim$200,000 unique releases from 28,000 unique packages over two years post-release. We conclude that major releases of OSS packages count as a unit of innovation complementary to scientific publications, patents, and standards.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2024-11-07T19:11:32Z)
• OS-ATLAS: A Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents [55.37173845836839]
  OS-Atlas is a foundational GUI action model that excels at GUI grounding and OOD agentic tasks. We are releasing the largest open-source cross-platform GUI grounding corpus to date, which contains over 13 million GUI elements.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2024-10-30T17:10:19Z)
• PVAC: Package Version Activity Categorizer, Leveraging Semantic Versioning in a Heterogeneous System [0.0]
  This research aims to introduce a systematic method and a prototype tool for assessing version activity within heterogeneous package manager ecosystems.<n>We developed a Package Version Activity Categorizer (PVAC) that consists of three components.<n>PVAC parses semantic versioning details from diverse package version strings, enabling consistent categorization and quantitative scoring of version changes.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2024-09-06T19:58:20Z)
• Uncovering and Mitigating the Impact of Frozen Package Versions for Fixed-Release Linux [38.53185042161599]
  We study the ecosystem gap of fixed-release Linux caused by the evolution of mirrors. We propose a novel package management approach allowing for separate dependency environments based on native Debian mirrors. We present a working prototype, named ccenv, which can effectively remedy the inadequacy of current tools.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2024-08-21T14:01:46Z)
• Designing and Implementing a Generator Framework for a SIMD Abstraction Library [53.84310825081338]
  We present TSLGen, a novel end-to-end framework for generating an SIMD abstraction library. We show that our framework is comparable to existing libraries, and we achieve the same performance results.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2024-07-26T13:25:38Z)
• CARLOS: An Open, Modular, and Scalable Simulation Framework for the Development and Testing of Software for C-ITS [0.0]
  We propose CARLOS - an open, modular, and scalable simulation framework for the development and testing of software in C-ITS. We provide core building blocks for this framework and explain how it can be used and extended by the community. In our paper, we motivate the architecture by describing important design principles and showcasing three major use cases.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2024-04-02T10:48:36Z)
• LLM as OS, Agents as Apps: Envisioning AIOS, Agents and the AIOS-Agent Ecosystem [48.81136793994758]
  Large Language Model (LLM) serves as the (Artificial) Intelligent Operating System (IOS), or AIOS--an operating system "with soul" We envision that LLM's impact will not be limited to the AI application level, instead, it will in turn revolutionize the design and implementation of computer system, architecture, software, and programming language.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2023-12-06T18:50:26Z)
• Promises and Perils of Mining Software Package Ecosystem Data [10.787686237395816]
  Third-party packages have led to the emergence of large software package ecosystems with a maze of inter-dependencies. Understanding the infrastructure and dynamics of package ecosystems has given rise to approaches for better code reuse, automated updates, and the avoidance of vulnerabilities. In this chapter, we review promises and perils of mining the rich data related to software package ecosystems available to software engineering researchers.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2023-05-29T03:09:48Z)
• SensiX++: Bringing MLOPs and Multi-tenant Model Serving to Sensory Edge Devices [69.1412199244903]
  We present a multi-tenant runtime for adaptive model execution with integrated MLOps on edge devices, e.g., a camera, a microphone, or IoT sensors. S SensiX++ operates on two fundamental principles - highly modular componentisation to externalise data operations with clear abstractions and document-centric manifestation for system-wide orchestration. We report on the overall throughput and quantified benefits of various automation components of SensiX++ and demonstrate its efficacy to significantly reduce operational complexity and lower the effort to deploy, upgrade, reconfigure and serve embedded models on edge devices.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2021-09-08T22:06:16Z)
• Dual-decoder Transformer for Joint Automatic Speech Recognition and Multilingual Speech Translation [71.54816893482457]
  We introduce dual-decoder Transformer, a new model architecture that jointly performs automatic speech recognition (ASR) and multilingual speech translation (ST) Our models are based on the original Transformer architecture but consist of two decoders, each responsible for one task (ASR or ST)
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2020-11-02T04:59:50Z)
• DIETERpy: a Python framework for The Dispatch and Investment Evaluation Tool with Endogenous Renewables [62.997667081978825]
  DIETER is an open-source power sector model designed to analyze future settings with very high shares of variable renewable energy sources. It minimizes overall system costs, including fixed and variable costs of various generation, flexibility and sector coupling options. We introduce DIETERpy that builds on the existing model version, written in the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) and enhances it with a Python framework.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2020-10-02T09:27:33Z)
• CodeReef: an open platform for portable MLOps, reusable automation actions and reproducible benchmarking [0.2148535041822524]
  We present CodeReef - an open platform to share all the components necessary to enable cross-platform MLOps (MLSysOps) We also introduce the CodeReef solution - a way to package and share models as non-virtualized, portable, customizable archive files.
  arXiv  Detail & Related papers  (2020-01-22T09:52:51Z)

This list is automatically generated from the titles and abstracts of the papers in this site.

This site does not guarantee the quality of this site (including all information) and is not responsible for any consequences.