Title
Modelling run-time arbitration by latency-rate servers in dataflow graphs
Abstract
In order to obtain a cost-efficient solution, tasks share resources in a Multi-Processor System-on-Chip. In our architecture, shared resources are run-time scheduled. We show how the effects of Latency-Rate servers, which is a class of run-time schedulers, can be included in a dataflow model. The resulting dataflow model, which can have an arbitrary topology, enables us to provide guarantees on the temporal behaviour of the implementation. Traditionally, the end-to-end behaviour of multiple Latency-Rate servers has been analysed with Latency-Rate analysis, which is a Network Calculus. This paper bridges a gap between Network Calculi and dataflow analysis techniques, since we show that a class of run-time schedulers can now be included in dataflow models, or, from a Network Calculus perspective, that restrictions on the topology of graphs that include run-time scheduling can be removed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1269843.1269846
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiple latency-rate server,dataflow analysis technique,run-time arbitration,run-time schedulers,run-time scheduling,dataflow model,network calculus,network calculus perspective,dataflow graph,network calculi,latency-rate analysis,latency-rate server
Graph,Architecture,Dataflow architecture,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Parallel computing,Server,Real-time computing,Dataflow,Arbitration,Network calculus,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
40
1.31
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maarten H. Wiggers11166.19
marco j g bekooij21619.00
Gerard J. M. Smit388889.18