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Ninth IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'03)
Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling in ORB Middleware
Toronto, Canada
May 27-May 30
ISBN: 0-7695-1956-3
Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St. Louis
Xiaorui Wang, Washington University in St. Louis
Christopher Gill, Washington University in St. Louis
Existing real-time ORB middleware standards such as RT-CORBA do not adequately address the challenges of 1) providing robust performance guarantees portably across different platforms, and 2) managing unpredictable workload. To overcome this limitation, we have developed software called FCS/nORB that integrates a Feedback Control real-time Scheduling (FCS) service with the nORB small-footprint real-time ORB designed for networked embedded systems. FCS/nORB features feedback control loops that provide real-time performance guarantees by automatically adjusting the rate of remote method invocations transparently to an application. FCS/nORB thus enables real-time applications to be truly portable in terms of real-time performance as well as functionality, without the need for hand tuning. This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of FCS/nORB. Our extensive experiments on a Linux testbed demonstrate that FCS can provide deadline miss ratio and utilization guarantees in face of changes in the platform and task execution times, while introducing a small amount of overhead.
Citation:
Chenyang Lu, Xiaorui Wang, Christopher Gill, "Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling in ORB Middleware," rtas, pp.37, Ninth IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'03), 2003
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