STORM a simulation tool for real-time multiprocessor scheduling evaluation

The increasing complexity of the hardware multiprocessor architectures as well as of the real-time applications they support makes very difficult even impossible to apply the theoretical real-time multiprocessor scheduling results currently available. Thus, so as to be able to evaluate and compare real-time multiprocessor scheduling strategies on their schedulability performance as well as energy efficiency, we have preferred a simulation approach and are developing an open and flexible multiprocessor scheduling simulation and evaluation platform called STORM. This paper presents the simulator on which STORM relies and that is able to simulate accurately the behaviour of those (hardware and software) elements that act upon the performances of such systems.