Work in Progress: Automating Proportion/Period Scheduling

Authors

David Steere, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology
Jonathan Walpole, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & TechnologyFollow
Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main CampusFollow

Sponsor

This project was supported in part by DARPA contracts/grants N66001-97-C-8522, N66001-97-C-8523, and F19628-95-C-0193, and by Tektronix, Inc. and Intel Corporation.

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1999

Subjects

Middleware, Application software -- Development, Real-time data processing -- Design

Abstract

The recent effort to define middleware capable of supporting real-time applications creates the opportunity to raise the level of abstraction presented to the programmer. We propose that proportion/period is a better abstraction for specifying resource needs and allocation than priorities. We are currently investigating techniques to address some issues that are restricting use of proportion/period scheduling to research real-time prototypes. In particular, we are investigating techniques to automate the task of selecting proportion and period, and that allow proportion/period to incorporate job importance under overload conditions.

Description

Paper presented to 20th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, December 1-3, 1999, and included in its proceedings.

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10652

Citation Details

Steere, David; Walpole, Jonathan; and Pu, Calton, "Work in Progress: Automating Proportion/Period Scheduling" (1999). Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations. 88.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10652