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Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (한국정보과학회)
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Development of virtio Network Driver for RTEMS Open-Source Operating System

RTEMS 오픈소스 운영체제를 위한 virtio 네트워크 드라이버 개발

  • 김진현 (건국대학교 스마트ICT융합학과) ;
  • 진현욱 (건국대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
  • Received : 2016.10.14
  • Accepted : 2016.12.28
  • Published : 2017.04.15
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Abstract

RTEMS is a real-time operating system using a GPLv2-based license, and is used in the aerospace industry, such as satellites. It is difficult to build a development environment for these special-purpose systems because of problems related to the hardware platform. This can be resolved by applying virtualization technology. However, increased execution time and performance degradation due to virtualization overhead can change timing behavior of real-time application, and needs to be minimized. In this paper, we aim to implement the network device driver of RTEMS for the standardized virtual network device called virtio in order to effectively utilize RTEMS in a virtualized environment. In addition, we describe the process of submitting implemented driver to the RTEMS community for contributing open source software and reflecting the various requirements of the community.

RTEMS는 GPLv2 기반의 라이선스를 사용하는 오픈소스 실시간 운영체제로 인공위성과 같은 항공우주 분야의 시스템에서 사용된다. 이러한 시스템들은 하드웨어 플랫폼과 관련된 문제로 인해 개발 환경 구축이 어려우며, 가상화 기술을 통해 이를 해결할 수 있다. 그러나 가상화 오버헤드로 인한 실행 시간증가와 성능 저하가 실시간 응용의 시간 동작을 변화시키며, 따라서 이를 최소화해야한다. 본 논문에서는 RTEMS를 위한 virtio front-end 네트워크 드라이버를 구현하여 네트워크 I/O 가상화 오버헤드를 완화시킨다. 또한 구현된 드라이버를 오픈소스 소프트웨어 기여를 위해 RTEMS 커뮤니티에 제출하는 과정과 커뮤니티의 다양한 요구사항들을 반영하는 과정을 설명한다.

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Supported by : 한국연구재단, 산업통상자원부

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