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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2008, Vol. 9 Issue (6): 776-785    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A071411
Electrical & Electronic Engineering     
Schedulability analysis for linear transactions under fixed priority hybrid scheduling
Zhi-gang GAO, Zhao-hui WU
School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Abstract  In hard real-time systems, schedulability analysis is not only one of the important means of guaranteeing the timelines of embedded software but also one of the fundamental theories of applying other new techniques, such as energy savings and fault tolerance. However, most of the existing schedulability analysis methods assume that schedulers use preemptive scheduling or non-preemptive scheduling. In this paper, we present a schedulability analysis method, i.e., the worst-case hybrid scheduling (WCHS) algorithm, which considers the influence of release jitters of transactions and extends schedulability analysis theory to timing analysis of linear transactions under fixed priority hybrid scheduling. To the best of our knowledge, this method is the first one on timing analysis of linear transactions under hybrid scheduling. An example is employed to demonstrate the use of this method. Experiments show that this method has lower computational complexity while keeping correctness, and that hybrid scheduling has little influence on the average worst-case response time (WCRT), but a negative impact on the schedulability of systems.

Key wordsReal-time systems      Hybrid scheduling      Linear transactions      Worst-case response time (WCRT)      Schedulability analysis     
Received: 26 July 2007      Published: 05 May 2008
CLC:  TP316  
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Zhi-gang GAO, Zhao-hui WU. Schedulability analysis for linear transactions under fixed priority hybrid scheduling. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2008, 9(6): 776-785.

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