Ty. Yen et W. Wolf, PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION FOR REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems, 9(11), 1998, pp. 1125-1136
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Science Theory & Methods","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Computer Science Theory & Methods
Many embedded computing systems are distributed systems: communicating
processes executing on several CPUs/ASICs. This paper describes a per
formance analysis algorithm for a set of tasks executing on a heteroge
neous distributed system. Tight bounds are essential to the synthesis
and verification of application-specific distributed systems, such as
embedded computing systems. Our bounding algorithms are valid for a ge
neral problem model: The system can contain several tasks with hard re
al-time deadlines and different periods; each task is partitioned into
a set of processes related by data dependencies. The periods of tasks
and the computation times of processes are not necessarily constant a
nd can be specified by a lower bound and an upper bound. Such a model
requires a more sophisticated algorithm, but leads to more accurate re
sults than previous work. Our algorithm both provides tighter bounds a
nd is faster than previous methods.