Optimization of task allocation and priority assignment in hard real-time distributed systems

Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Zhu, Qi ^a,e   Zeng, Haibo ^b   Zheng, Wei ^c   Di Natale, Marco ^d   Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Alberto ^c  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Architectures; Automotive systems; Design optimization; Optimization; Real time systems; Schedulability

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SAFETY; AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS; AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPLEX FUNCTIONS; CONFIGURATION FEATURES; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; END-TO-END DEADLINE; FUNCTION BLOCK; HARD REAL-TIME; MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR OPTIMIZATIONS; PRIORITY ASSIGNMENT; PRIORITY-BASED SCHEDULING; SCHEDULABILITY; SIGNAL INFORMATION; TASK ALLOCATION; WORST CASE RESPONSE TIME;

ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872479035     PISSN: 15399087     EISSN: 15583465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2362336.2362352     Document Type: Article

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