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Time-Efficient Voltage Scheduling Algorithms for Embedded Real-Time Systems with Task Synchronization

태스크 동기화가 필요한 임베디드 실기간 시스템에서 시간-효율적인 전압 스케쥴링 알고리즘

  • Received : 2009.06.25
  • Accepted : 2009.09.13
  • Published : 2010.01.30
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Abstract

Many embedded real - lime systems have adopted processors supported with dynamic voltage scal-ing(DVS) recently. Power is one of the important metrics for Optimization in the design and operation of embedded real-time systems. We can save considerable energy by using slowdown of processor sup-ported with DVS. In this paper, we improved the previous algorithm at a point of view of time complexity to calculate task slowdown factors for an efficient energy consumption in embedded real-time systems with task synchronization. We grasped the properties of the previous algorithm having $O(n^{2})$ time complexity through mathematical analysis and s simulation. Using its properties we proposed the improved algorithms with O(nlogn) and O(n) time complexity which have the same performance as the previous algorithm has.

최근 많은 임베디드 실시간 시스템에 동적 전압 조절(Dynamic Voltage Scaling: DVS)을 지원하는 프로세서를 사용하고 있다. 이런 시스템의 설계 및 동작의 최적화를 위한 중요한 요소 중 하나가 전력(power)이다. 동적 전압 조절을 지원하는 프로세서의 슬로우다운을 이용함으로서 많은 소비 전력을 절약할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 태스크의 동기화가 필요한 임베디드 실시간 시스템에서 효율적인 전력 소비를 위해 태스크들의 슬로우다운 값을 구하는 기존 알고리즘을 시간복잡도 측면에서 개선하였다. 시간복잡도 $O(n^{2})$인 기존 알고리즘을 수학적인 분석 및 시뮬레이션을 통하여 그 성질을 파악하고, 그 성질을 이용하여 기존 알고리즘과 같은 성능을 가지는 시간복잡도가 O(nlogn) 및 O(n)인 개선된 알고리즘들을 제안하였다.

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