Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS'03F)
Achieving Reliable and Timely Task Execution in Mobile Embedded Applications
Anacapri (Capri Island), Italy
October 01-October 03
ISBN: 0-1795-2054-5
Tasks controlling a mobile system?s interactions with its environment must be performed reliably and in real-time. Motion control, for example, directs a system?s motions based on information about the environment. As such information is usually incomplete and inaccurate, we developed a solution in which mobile systems perform a distributed fusion of their sensor data. In this paper, we address the scheduling of the local processing tasks of the fusion. The particular problem of the real-time scheduling of these tasks lies in their unpredictable execution times, which do not allow using worst-case values. TAFT (time-aware fault-tolerant) scheduling allows working with expected-case execution times and still achieves a predictable timing behavior. It aborts task instances that would miss their deadline and ensures a timely exception handling. We exploit application-inherent redundancy to tolerate task abortions. We present measurements showing the dynamic nature of the execution times and the reliability of task execution.
Citation:
Stefan Schemmer, Edgar Nett, "Achieving Reliable and Timely Task Execution in Mobile Embedded Applications," words, pp.61, Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS'03F), 2003