Energy efficient task assignment with guaranteed probability satisfying timing constraints for embedded systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2043-2052

  Niu, Jianwei ^a   Liu, Chuang ^a   Gao, Yuhang ^a   Qiu, Meikang ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

energy efficiency; Probabilistic scheduling; real time embedded system; task assignment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING (ILP); INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH (DAG); DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING ALGORITHM; DYNAMIC VOLTAGE SCALING; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC SCHEDULING; REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; TASK ASSIGNMENT;

VOLTAGE SCALING;

EID: 84904633764     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.251     Document Type: Article

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