27th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'06)
Energy-Efficient Real-Time Task Scheduling for a DVS System with a Non-DVS Processing Element
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
December 05-December 08
ISBN: 0-7695-2761-2
Multiple processing elements are often adopted in the current designs of embedded systems. Such configurations impose challenges on hardware/software co-designs with energy-efficient considerations. This paper targets energy-efficient real-time task scheduling of such popular configurations, in which systems are equipped with a DVS processor and a non-DVS processing element (PE). We consider task scheduling under different power consumption models of the non-DVS PE. When the power consumption of the non-DVS PE is independent on the assigned workload, a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme is developed for energy-efficient scheduling. When the energy consumption of the non-DVS PE depends on the assigned workload, a 0.5-approximation algorithm is developed to maximize the energy saving, compared to the execution of tasks on a DVS processor. Extensive simulations were performed to evaluate the capability of our proposed algorithms. The results show that our algorithms are very effective in energy-efficiency.
Index Terms:
DVS scheduling, heterogeneous multiprocessor scheduling, energy-efficient scheduling.
Citation:
Chia-Mei Hung, Jian-Jia Chen, Tei-Wei Kuo, "Energy-Efficient Real-Time Task Scheduling for a DVS System with a Non-DVS Processing Element," rtss, pp.303-312, 27th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'06), 2006