Quality factors driving costs in multi-core systems

Multi core systems are of growing importance. These systems provide unique challenges regarding certain quality attributes. In this work, a systematic literature was conducted. A systematic literature aims at identifying, analyzing and interpreting all available evidence on a given research question, by providing an unbiased and repeatable process. In this work the goal was to identify metrics for measuring and methods for improving cost, scalability or interoperability of a multi core system. These found methods and metrics were grouped regarding similarities and differences. This review leads to several metrics and methods contributing to scalability, a few for cost and no metrics or methods supporting the interoperability.