Simulation-based schedulability tests for multiprocessor real-time systems

The assimilation of multiprocessor programming into the real-time application´s domain is limited because there are not enough theoretical and pragmatic tools for proving the feasibility of such systems. Theoretical results are few and tend to be too complex for a practical implementation. In this paper, we combine theoretical analysis results with simulation to obtain a tool, which can assess the multiprocessor real-time schedulability of periodic task sets. We performed simulations on different scenarios in order to determine the features that influence schedulability of a multiprocessor real-time system.