Response time analysis of multiframe mixed-criticality systems with arbitrary deadlines

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2020

Authors

Ishfaq Hussain (Author) Other; Muhammad Ali Awan (Author) Other; Pedro Souto (Author) FEUP; Konstantinos Bletsas (Author) Other; Benny Akesson (Author) Other; Eduardo Tovar (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Real-Time Systems

Vol. 57 No. 1-2

Pages: 141-189

ISSN: 0922-6443

Publisher: Springer Nature

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00T-SAV

DOI: 10.1007/s11241-020-09357-w

Abstract (EN): The well-known model of Vestal aims to avoid excessive pessimism in the quantification of the processing requirements of mixed-criticality systems, while still guaranteeing the timeliness of higher-criticality functions. This can bring important savings in system costs, and indirectly help meet size, weight and power constraints. This efficiency is promoted via the use of multiple worst-case execution time (WCET) estimates for the same task, with each such estimate characterized by a confidence associated with a different criticality level. However, even this approach can be very pessimistic when the WCET of successive instances of the same task can vary greatly according to a known pattern, as in MP3 and MPEG codecs or the processing of ADVB video streams. In this paper, we present a schedulability analysis for the new multiframe mixed-criticality model, which allows tasks to have multiple, periodically repeating, WCETs in the same mode of operation. Our work extends both the analysis techniques for Static Mixed-Criticality scheduling (SMC) and Adaptive Mixed-Criticality scheduling (AMC), on one hand, and the schedulability analysis for multiframe task systems on the other. A constrained-deadline model is initially targeted, and then extended to the more general, but also more complex, arbitrary-deadline scenario. The corresponding optimal priority assignment for our schedulability analysis is also identified. Our proposed worst-case response time (WCRT) analysis for multiframe mixed-criticality systems is considerably less pessimistic than applying the static and adaptive mixed-criticality scheduling tests oblivious to the WCET variation patterns. Experimental evaluation with synthetic task sets demonstrates up to 20% and 31.4% higher scheduling success ratio (in absolute terms) for constrained-deadline analyses and arbitrary-deadline analyses, respectively, when compared to the best of their corresponding frame-oblivious tests. © 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 49