A framework for the response time analysis of fixed-priority tasks with stochastic inter-arrival times

Real-time scheduling usually considers worst-case values for the parameters of task (or message stream) sets, in order to provide safe schedulability tests for hard real-time systems. However, worst-case conditions introduce a level of pessimism that is often inadequate for a certain class of (soft)...

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Main Author: Cucu, Liliana (author)
Other Authors: Tovar, Eduardo (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/4013
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/4013
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Summary:Real-time scheduling usually considers worst-case values for the parameters of task (or message stream) sets, in order to provide safe schedulability tests for hard real-time systems. However, worst-case conditions introduce a level of pessimism that is often inadequate for a certain class of (soft) real-time systems. In this paper we provide an approach for computing the stochastic response time of tasks where tasks have inter-arrival times described by discrete probabilistic distribution functions, instead of minimum inter-arrival (MIT) values.