Modeling resource contention among distributed periodic processes

A framework for analyzing resource usage of distributed periodic processes specified in RT-Chart is provided. Functions for reasoning about the quality of an assignment of processes to computation nodes are developed, and a novel model of resource use costs and communication costs is shown. The model allows reasoning about the rates of progress each action makes when using its resources, thus modeling contention among periodic processes sharing a resource. The computed rates of progress are accurate since impossible sources of resource contention are removed. These are useful techniques for assignment algorithms (such as simulated annealing) that repeatedly reassign actions until a close-to-optimal solution is obtained