Title
Efficient Feasibility Analysis for Graph-Based Real-Time Task Systems
Abstract
The demand bound function (DBF) is a powerful abstraction to analyze the feasibility/schedulability of real-time tasks. Computing the DBF for expressive system models, such as graph-based tasks, is typically very expensive. In this article, we develop new techniques to drastically improve the DBF computation efficiency for a representative graph-based task model, digraph real-time tasks (DRT). First, we apply the well-known quick processor-demand analysis (QPA) technique, which was originally designed for simple sporadic tasks, to the analysis of DRT. The challenge is that existing analysis techniques of DRT have to compute the demand for each possible interval size, which is contradictory to the idea of QPA that aims to aggressively skip the computation for most interval sizes. To solve this problem, we develop a novel integer linear programming (ILP)-based analysis technique for DRT, to which we can apply QPA to significantly improve the analysis efficiency. Second, we improve the task utilization computation (a major step in DBF computation for DRT) efficiency from pseudo-polynomial complexity to polynomial complexity. Experiments show that our approach can improve the analysis efficiency by dozens of times.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TCAD.2020.3012174
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Demand bound function (DBF),digraph real-time tasks (DRT),feasibility,linear program (LP)
Journal
39
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
0278-0070
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jinghao Sun1114.19
Rongxiao Shi200.34
Kexuan Wang300.34
Nan Guan49521.53
Zhishan Guo532934.04