Title
Energy-Efficient Real-Time Scheduling of DAG Tasks.
Abstract
This work studies energy-aware real-time scheduling of a set of sporadic Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) tasks with implicit deadlines. While meeting all real-time constraints, we try to identify the best task allocation and execution pattern such that the average power consumption of the whole platform is minimized. To our knowledge, this is the first work that addresses the power consumption issue in scheduling multiple DAG tasks on multi-cores and allows intra-task processor sharing. First, we adapt the decomposition-based framework for federated scheduling and propose an energy-sub-optimal scheduler. Then, we derive an approximation algorithm to identify processors to be merged together for further improvements in energy-efficiency. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is evaluated both theoretically via approximation ratio bounds and also experimentally through simulation study. Experimental results on randomly generated workloads show that our algorithms achieve an energy saving of 60% to 68% compared to existing DAG task schedulers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3241049
ACM Trans. Embedded Comput. Syst.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Parallel task, convex optimization, energy minimization, real-time scheduling
Approximation algorithm,Scheduling (computing),Efficient energy use,Computer science,Parallel computing,Processor sharing,Directed acyclic graph,Convex optimization,Energy minimization,Power consumption
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
5
1539-9087
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.44
28
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ashikahmed Bhuiyan1202.99
Zhishan Guo232934.04
Abusayeed Saifullah372132.31
Nan Guan49521.53
Haoyi Xiong550544.63