Title
Transition-aware real-time task scheduling for reconfigurable embedded systems
Abstract
Due to increase in demand for reconfigurability in embedded systems, real-time task scheduling is challenged by non-negligible reconfiguration overheads. If such overheads are not considered, tasks may not be schedulable under given deadlines, and hence, affecting the quality of service. We introduce the problem of real-time periodic task scheduling under transition overhead on heterogeneous reconfigurable systems. We formulate the problem as a network flow problem and provide a mixed integer linear programming solution. We compare our proposed solution with optimal scheduling under maximum fixed transition overhead. We deployed our method on task scheduling for multiple communication protocols on reconfigurable FPGA-like systems. Results show that our proposed scheduling improves the task schedulability by 24.2% in comparison with non-preemptive EDF and by 17.5% in comparison with maximum-transition-overhead scheduling.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/DATE.2010.5457205
Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition
Keywords
Field
DocType
embedded systems,integer programming,linear programming,quality of service,scheduling,heterogeneous reconfigurable systems,mixed integer linear programming,multiple communication protocols,network flow problem,nonnegligible reconfiguration overhead,optimal scheduling,quality of service,real-time periodic task scheduling,reconfigurable FPGA-like systems,reconfigurable embedded systems,transition-aware real-time task scheduling,Dynamically reconfigurable systems and Real-time task scheduling
Computer science,Real-time computing,Two-level scheduling,Rate-monotonic scheduling,Distributed computing,Fixed-priority pre-emptive scheduling,Fair-share scheduling,Deadline-monotonic scheduling,Parallel computing,Earliest deadline first scheduling,Dynamic priority scheduling,Round-robin scheduling,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1591
978-1-4244-7054-9
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.53
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hessam Kooti180.53
Elaheh Bozorgzadeh280.53
Shenghui Liao37014.44
Lichun Bao480.53