ProtEx: a toolkit for the analysis of distributed real-time systems

Author

Meylan, Yves ; Bajpai, Aneema ; Bettati, Riccardo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

183

Lastpage

188

Abstract

Large-scale distributed real-time systems are increasingly difficult to analyze within the Rate Monotonic Analysis framework. This is due partly to their heterogeneity, complex interaction between components, and variety of scheduling and queuing policies present in the system. We present a methodology to extend the traditional RMA approach by allowing general characterization of workload and flexible modeling of resources. We realize our approaches within ProtEx, a toolkit for the prototyping and schedulability analysis of distributed real-time systems. This toolkit focuses on a wider set of methodologies than the traditional RMA scheduling analysis tools

Keywords

distributed processing; real-time systems; scheduling; software prototyping; software tools; systems analysis; ProtEx toolkit; RMA approach; Rate Monotonic Analysis framework; distributed real-time systems analysis; flexible resource modeling; prototyping; queuing policies; scheduling; workload; Communication switching; Communication system control; Computer science; Control systems; Design methodology; Large-scale systems; Processor scheduling; Prototypes; Real time systems; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, 2000. Proceedings. Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cheju Island

ISSN

1530-1427

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0930-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTCSA.2000.896389

Filename

896389