Title
ECTM: A network-on-chip communication model to combine task and message schedulability analysis
Abstract
Network-on-Chips (NoC) are widely used in industrial applications since they provide communication parallelism and reduce energy consumption. The use of NoC has been recently extended to real-time systems, whose execution has to meet temporal constraints. Communication delays introduced by the network make the scheduling analysis challenging. In this article, we propose a new NoC communication model called ECTM. The main goal of this model is to assess the schedulability of dependent periodic tasks exchanging messages on a NoC. ECTM is a model allowing schedulability analysis of messages and tasks of the NoC. To achieve schedulability, ECTM produces an analysis model by transforming NoC messages to tasks in order to take into account communication delays during the scheduling analysis. Schedulability of the system is assessed using simulation over the feasibility interval with a list scheduling, ECTM supports Store-And-Forward and Wormhole NoC.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.sysarc.2020.101931
Journal of Systems Architecture
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Network-On-Chip (NoC),Real-time systems,Communication,Schedulability analysis,Wormhole,Store-and-forward
Journal
114
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1383-7621
1
0.37
References 
Authors
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mourad Dridi171.90
Frank Singhoff29317.70
Stéphane Rubini310.37
Jean-Philippe Diguet410.37