Online task-scheduling for fault-tolerant low-energy real-time systems
Tongquan Wei, Piyush Mishra, Kaijie Wu, Liang Han · Digest of technical papers/Digest of technical papers - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design · 2006
In this paper we investigate fault tolerance and Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) in hard real time systems. We present two low-complexity fault-aware scheduling algorithms that combine feasibility analysis of Rate Monotonic Algorithm (RMA) schedules and DVS-based frequency scaling using exact characterization of RMA algorithm. These algorithms lay the foundation for highly efficient online schemes that minimize energy consumption by adapting DVS policies to runtime behavior of tasks and fault occurrences without violating the offline feasibility analysis. Simulation results demonstrate energy savings of up to 60% over low-energy offline scheduling algorithms [22].