Online real-time task scheduling in heterogeneous multicore system-on-a-chip

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 118-130

  Chen, Ya Shu ^a   Liao, Han Chiang ^a   Tsai, Ting Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

heterogeneous multicore; Real time; task scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON STUDY; DUAL-CORE; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; GENERAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS; HETEROGENEOUS MULTICORE; LOW PRIORITIES; NON-PREEMPTIVE TASKS; PRECEDENCE CONSTRAINTS; REAL TIME CONSTRAINTS; REAL-TIME; REAL-TIME TASKS; SCHEDULING FRAMEWORKS; SCHEDULING POLICIES; SYNERGISTIC PROCESSORS; SYSTEM UTILIZATION; SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP; TASK-SCHEDULING;

MULTITASKING; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84870952162     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2012.114     Document Type: Article

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