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Precise Mixed-Criticality Scheduling on Varying-Speed Multiprocessors
IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Sudharsan Vaidhun
  • Tianning She
  • Qijun Gu
  • Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Kecheng Yang
  • Zhishan Guo
Abstract

While traditional real-time systems analysis requires single pessimistic estimates to represent system parameters, the mixed-criticality (MC) design proposes to use multiple estimates of system parameters with different levels of pessimism, resulting in low critical workloads sacrificed at run-time in order to provide guarantees to high critical workloads. Shortcomings of the MC design were improved recently by the precise MC scheduling technique in which the processor speed is increased at run-time to provide guarantees to both low and high critical workloads. Aiming to extend the precise MC scheduling to multiprocessor computing platforms, this paper proposes three novel scheduling algorithms that are based on virtual-deadline and fluid-scheduling approaches. We prove the correctness of our proposed algorithms through schedulability analysis and also present their theoretical effectiveness via speedup bounds and approximation factor calculations. Finally, we evaluate their performance experimentally via randomly generated task sets and demonstrate that the fluid-scheduling algorithms outperform the virtual-deadline algorithm.

Department(s)
Computer Science
Keywords and Phrases
  • Approximation Algorithms,
  • Computational Modeling,
  • Fluid Scheduling,
  • Job Shop Scheduling,
  • Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Systems,
  • Multiprocessors,
  • Precise Scheduling,
  • Processor Scheduling,
  • Real-Time Systems,
  • Switches,
  • Task Analysis,
  • Varying-Speed Platform
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Publication Date
01 Jan 2022
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Citation Information
Sudharsan Vaidhun, Tianning She, Qijun Gu, Sajal K. Das, et al.. "Precise Mixed-Criticality Scheduling on Varying-Speed Multiprocessors" IEEE Transactions on Computers (2022) ISSN: 1557-9956; 0018-9340
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sajal-das/265/