Scheduling of Offset Free Systems

In this paper, we study the problem of scheduling hard real-time periodic tasks. We consider independent tasks which are characterized by a period, a hard deadline and a computation time, but where the offsets may be chosen by the scheduling algorithm. We first show that we can restrict the problem by considering non-equivalent offset assignments. More precisely, we show that there are finitely many non-equivalent offset assignments and we propose a method to reduce significantly this number and consider only the minimal number of non-equivalent offset assignments. We then propose an optimal offset assignment rule which considers only the non-equivalent offset assignments. However the number of combinations remains exponential; for this reason, we also propose a nearly optimal algorithm with a more reasonable time complexity.     

A Feasibility Decision Algorithm for Rate Monotonic and Deadline Monotonic Scheduling

Rate monotonic and deadline monotonic scheduling are commonly used for periodic real-time task systems. This paper discusses a feasibility decision for a given real-time task system when the system is scheduled by rate monotonic and deadline monotonic scheduling. The time complexity of existing feasibility decision algorithms depends on both the number of tasks and maximum periods or deadlines when the periods and deadlines are integers. This paper presents a new necessary and sufficient condition for a given task system to be feasible and proposes a new feasibility decision algorithm based on that condition. The time complexity of this algorithm depends solely on the number of tasks. This condition can also be applied as a sufficient condition for a task system using priority inheritance protocols to be feasible with rate monotonic and deadline monotonic scheduling.     

提高软非周期任务响应性能的调度算法

实时环境中常常既包含硬周期任务,又包含软非周期任务,引入一种改进软非周期实时任务响应时间的算法.已有的解决混合任务调度问题的方法都是基于速率单调（Rate Monotonic）策略的,其中从周期任务“挪用时间”的算法被证明优于其他所有算法.但是,速率单调算法限制了处理器的使用率,从而使周期任务的可“挪用”时间受到限制.最后期限驱动（Deadline Driven）策略DD可使潜在的处理器利用率达到100%.新算法正是在周期任务的调度中适当加入了DD策略,从而使非周期任务的响应时间得以缩短.仿真实验的结果表明,这种算法的性能优于已有的所有算法,而由它所带来的额外开销却不算很高.     

一种静态优先级保序饱和分配算法

在通信、雷达、导航以及各种消费类电子产品等领域,嵌入式实时调度已逐渐成为电子电气系统的控制核心,成本与性价比都是设计者需要考虑的重要内容.实际应用中,系统能够支持的优先级教目是有限的,当任务数目多于系统优先级数目时,RM,DM等优先级非受限最优算法尽管已经不再适用,但是仍然可以作为任务的自然优先级来辅助系统设计.利用自然优先级先验知识,提出一种保序饱和分配算法,用于任意截止期模型的最优保序分配.进一步的研究表明,当所有任务周期不小于其相对截止时间时,DM保序饱和分配是最少优先级分配.本算法复杂度低,可调度的判定总次数等于任务总数,远低于AGP和LNPA.     

Maintaining temporal consistency: pessimistic vs. optimisticconcurrency control

We study the performance of concurrency control algorithms in maintaining temporal consistency of shared data in hard real time systems. In our model, a hard real time system consists of periodic tasks which are either write only, read only or update transactions. Transactions may share data. Data objects are temporally inconsistent when their ages and dispersions are greater than the absolute and relative thresholds allowed by the application. Real time transactions must read temporally consistent data in order to deliver correct results. Based on this model, we have evaluated the performance of two well known classes of concurrency control algorithms that handle multiversion data: the two phase locking and the optimistic algorithms, as well as the rate monotonic and earliest deadline first scheduling algorithms. The effects of using the priority inheritance and stack based protocols with lock based concurrency control are also studied     

单调时限调度算法的可调度分析

单调时限调度通过定义Di≤Ti放宽了单调比率调度对被调度任务集的限制,使之更加近似于工程实际,但现有的单调时限调度的可调度分析的充分条件十分复杂。文章提出并证明了基于最小处理器利用率上限的单调时限调度的充分可调度条件,大大简化了单调时限调度的调度分析。     

一种静态最少优先级分配算法

随着实时系统越来越多地应用于各种快速更新系统,尤其是各种片上系统,如PDA(personal digital assistant),PSP(play station portable)等,性价比已成为系统设计者的主要关注点.实际应用中,实时系统通常仅支持较少的优先级,常出现系统优先级数小于任务数的情况(称为有限优先级),此时,需将多个任务分配到同一系统优先级,RM(rate monotonic),DM(deadline monotonic)等静态优先级分配算法不再适用.为此,静态有限优先级分配是研究在任务集合静态优先级可调度的情况下,可否以及如何用较少或最少的系统优先级保持任务集合可调度.已有静态有限优先级分配可分为两类:固定数目优先级分配和最少优先级分配.给出了任意截止期模型下任务静态有限优先级可调度的充要条件以及不同静态有限优先级分配间转换时的几个重要性质,指出了系统优先级从低到高分配策略的优越性,定义了饱和任务组与饱和分配的概念,证明了在任务集合静态优先级可调度的情况下,最少优先级分配比固定数目优先级分配更具一般性.最后提出一种最少优先级分配算法LNPA(least-number priority assignment).与现有算法相比,LNPA适用范围更广,且复杂度较低.     

An optimal algorithm for scheduling soft aperiodic tasks indynamic-priority preemptive systems

The paper addresses the problem of jointly scheduling tasks with both hard and soft real time constraints. We present a new analysis applicable to systems scheduled using a priority preemptive dispatcher, with priorities assigned dynamically according to the EDF policy. Further, we present a new efficient online algorithm (the acceptor algorithm) for servicing aperiodic work load. The acceptor transforms a soft aperiodic task into a hard one by assigning a deadline. Once transformed, aperiodic tasks are handled in exactly the same way as periodic tasks with hard deadlines. The proposed algorithm is shown to be optimal in terms of providing the shortest aperiodic response time among fixed and dynamic priority schedulers. It always guarantees the proper execution of periodic hard tasks. The approach is composed of two parts: an offline analysis and a run time scheduler. The offline algorithm runs in pseudopolynomial time O(mn), where n is the number of hard periodic tasks and m is the hyperperiod/min deadline     

改进的单调速率调度算法

实时系统中调度算法起着重要的作用.单调速率调度算法(rate monotonic algorithm,RM)是一种被 广泛使用的调度算法,并且已被证明是一种最佳的静态优先级算法.传统的RM算法忽略上下文切换需要消耗的时间,针对此问题,提出了一种延迟抢占的改进方法.该方法考虑了上下文切换消耗时间对调度算法的影响,可以减少...     

副版本不可抢占的全局容错调度算法

容错是硬实时系统的关键能力,容错调度算法可以在有错误发生的情况下满足任务的实时性需求.在主副版本机制的容错调度算法中,主版本出错后留给副版本运行的时间窗口小,副版本容易错失截止期.针对副版本需要快速响应的问题,提出副版本不可抢占的全局容错调度算法FTGS-NPB（fault-tolerant global scheduling with non-preemptive backups）,赋予副版本全局最高优先级,使副版本在主版本出错后可以立刻获得处理器资源,并且在运行过程中不会被其他任务抢占.这样,副版本可以在最短时间内响应.分别基于截止期分析和响应时间分析建立了FTGS-NPB的可调度性测试,并分析了两种可调度性测试分别适用于不同的优先级分配算法.仿真实验结果表明,FTGS-NPB可以有效地减少实现容错的代价.     

Aperiodic servers in a deadline scheduling environment

A real-time system may have tasks with soft deadlines, as well as hard deadlines. While earliest-deadline-first scheduling is effective for hard-deadline tasks, applying it to soft-deadline tasks may waste schedulable processor capacity or sacrifice average response time. Better average response time may be obtained, while still guaranteeing hard deadlines, with an aperiodic server. Three scheduling algorithms for aperiodic servers are described, and schedulability tests are derived for them. A simulation provides performance data for these three algorithms on random aperiodic tasks. The performances of the deadline aperiodic servers are compared with those of several alternatives, including background service, a deadline polling server, and rate-monotonic servers, and with estimates based on the M/M/1 queueing model. This adds to the evidence in support of deadline scheduling,versus fixed priority scheduling.     

强实时系统的调度

实时系统的一个重要研究领域是调度 ,实时任务能否在规定的时限内完成依赖于调度算法的好坏。本文给出了当前强实时系统的主要调度思想和模型 ,并对各算法的特点进行了评述 ,对强实时系统的设计和论证具有重要意义。     

Semaphore queue priority assignment for real-time multiprocessorsynchronization

Prior work on real time scheduling with global shared resources in multiprocessor systems assigns as much blocking as possible to the lowest priority tasks. We show that better schedulability can be achieved if global blocking is distributed according to the blocking tolerance of tasks rather than their execution priorities. We describe an algorithm that assigns global semaphore queue priorities according to blocking tolerance, and we present simulation results demonstrating the advantages of this approach with rate monotonic scheduling. Our simulations also show that a simple FIFO usually provides better real time schedulability with global semaphores than priority queues that use task execution priorities     

一种任务优先级的综合设计方法

提出了一种基于优先级表设计的调度算法.将任务的相对截止期和空闲时间这两个特征参数结合起来,综合设计任务的优先级表,使得截止期越早或空闲时间越短,任务的优先级越高,而且任务的优先级由相对截止期和空闲时间惟一确定.对于任意一个任务,可通过对设计的优先级表进行二元多点插值获得相应任务的惟一优先级.与传统的EDF和LSF算法进行仿真比较,仿真结果表明,通过优先级表设计方法来确定任务的优先级,提高了任务调度的成功率,降低了任务截止期的错失率.该方法可应用于实时系统中实时任务的动态调度中.     

单调速率调度算法的可调度性分析与仿真

单调速率调度算法是一种经典的周期任务调度算法，在采用单调速率调度算法调度周期任务前对算法的可调度性进行分析和仿真是十分必要的。该文介绍了单调速率调度算法的基本调度规则和可调度的充分必要条件，分别基于Windows平台的多线程机制和实时操作系统SACOS的RMS管理器对单调速率调度算法的可调度性进行仿真，并对仿真结：果进行了评价与分析。仿真结果表明，这两种方法可为单调速率调度算法的可调度性分析提供有益的指导。     

EDF统一调度硬实时周期任务和偶发任务的可调度性判定算法

现有的硬实时周期任务和非周期任务的混合调度方法都没有保证非周期任务的实时性,所以不适合调度具有强实时要求的偶发任务.通过分析和计算EDF算法调度偶发任务所占用的空闲时间和挪用时间,以及调度后对空闲时间和最大可挪用时间的影响,提出一种采用EDF算法统一调度硬实时周期任务和偶发任务时的可调度性充分判定算法.最后用仿真实验得出了该算法在不同系统负载下的判定准确率和偶发任务的平均响应时间.     

基于命题投影时序逻辑的单调速率调度算法模型检测

提出了基于命题投影时序逻辑(propositional projection temporal logic,简称PPTL)的单调速率调度(rate monotonic scheduling,简称RMS)模型检测方法.该方法使用SPIN模型检测器的系统建模语言PROMELA为任务调度系统建模,使用PPTL描述系统期望的性质,通过SPIN验证系统模型是否满足性质,从而得知一个任务组在RMS下是否可调度.同时,RMS算法控制下的任务调度系统的其他性质也可以得到验证.     

Online Periodic Self-Test Scheduling for Real-Time Processor-Based Systems Dependability Enhancement

Online periodic self-testing is a cost-effective technique to ensure correct operation of microprocessor-based systems in the field and improve their dependability in the presence of failures caused by components aging/wearout. Effective online self-test tasks in embedded systems should have limited resource requirements: memory, execution time, and power consumption, while at the same time, they should guarantee the highest possible self-test quality levels. These requirements are not always easy to satisfy in real-time embedded systems with hard task deadlines. In this paper, we investigate the maximization of the effective self-test utilization and present solutions for the scheduling of online self-test tasks in hard real-time systems. The primary goal is to guarantee high self-test quality without affecting the deadline requirements of normal hard real-time tasks. We show that with appropriate selection of the periodicity of the self-test tasks, these goals can be met.     

Energy-efficient scheduling of real-time tasks with shared resources

This paper explores the energy-efficient scheduling of real-time tasks on a non-ideal DVS processor in the presence of resource sharing. We assume that tasks are periodic, preemptive and may access to shared resources. When dynamic-priority and fixed-priority scheduling are considered, we use the earliest deadline first (EDF) algorithm and the rate monotonic (RM) algorithm to schedule the given set of tasks. Based on the stack resource policy (SRP), we propose an approach, called blocking-aware two-speed (BATS) algorithm, to synchronize the tasks with shared resources and to calculate appropriate execution speeds so that the shared resources can be accessed in a mutual exclusive manner and the energy consumption can be reduced. Particularly, BATS uses a static low speed to execute tasks initially, and then it switches to a high speed dynamically whenever a task blocks a higher priority task. More specifically, the processor runs at the high speed from the beginning of the blocking until the deadline of the blocked task or the processor becomes idle. In order to guarantee that the deadlines of tasks are met, the static low speed and the dynamic high speeds are derived based on the theoretical analysis of the schedulability of tasks. Compared with existing work, BATS achieves more energy saving because its dynamic high speeds are lower than that of existing work and the processor has less chance to execute tasks at the high speeds. The schedulability analysis and the properties of our proposed BATS are provided in this paper. We also evaluated the capabilities of BATS by a series of experiments, for which we have some encouraging results.     

Dynamic priority ceilings: A concurrency control protocol for real-time systems

Real-time systems have stringent deadline requirements for their tasks. To meet the requirements, a real-time system must use scheduling algorithms that ensure a predictable response even in the face of mutually exclusive accesses to critical sections. We present a concurrency control protocol for systems using the earliest deadline first scheduling algorithm. The protocol specifies a dynamic priority ceiling for each critical section which is the earliest deadline of jobs which are currently in or will enter the critical section. Jobs trying to enter a critical section will be blocked if they do not have a priority higher than the priority ceiling of any critical section which is in use. We show that the protocol prevents both deadlock and chained blocking. The schedulability condition and implementation issues of the protocol are also discussed.