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Technical Report: Techniques and Analysis for Mixed-criticality Scheduling with Mode-dependent Server Execution Budgets
Ref: CISTER-TR-190202       Publication Date: 2019

Technical Report: Techniques and Analysis for Mixed-criticality Scheduling with Mode-dependent Server Execution Budgets

Ref: CISTER-TR-190202       Publication Date: 2019

Abstract:
In mixed-criticality systems, tasks of different criticality share system resources, mainly to reduce cost. Cost is further reduced by using adaptive mode-based scheduling arrangements, such as Vestal's model, to improve resource efficiency, while guaranteeing schedulability of critical functionality. To simplify safety certification, servers are often used to provide temporal isolation between tasks. However, a server's computational requirements may greatly vary in different modes, but state-of-the-art techniques and schedulability tests do not allow different budgets to be used by a server in different modes. This results in a single conservative execution budget for all modes, increasing system cost.
The goal of this paper is to reduce the cost of mixed-criticality systems through three main contributions: (i)a scheduling arrangement for uniprocessor systems employing fixed-priority scheduling within periodic servers, whose budgets are dynamically adjusted at run-time in event of a mode change, (ii) a new schedulability analysis for such systems, and (iii) heuristic algorithms for assigning budgets to servers in different modes and ordering the execution of the servers. Experiments with synthetic task sets demonstrate considerable improvements (up to 52.8%) in scheduling success ratio when using dynamic server budgets, compared to static "one-size-fits-all-modes" budgets.

Authors:
Muhammad Ali Awan
,
Konstantinos Bletsas
,
Pedro F. Souto
,
Benny Ã…kesson
,
Eduardo Tovar




Record Date: 8, Feb, 2019