• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.68-74
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• 2005

In deadline scheduling, jobs have deadlines by which they are completed. The scheduling algorithm determines which jobs are executed at each time. Then only the completed jobs contribute to the throughput or gain of the algorithm. The jobs have arbitrary weights and the gain of the algorithm is given as the sum of weights of the completed jobs. The goal of the scheduling algorithm is to maximize its gain. In this paper, we consider online non-preemptive scheduling, where jobs arrive online and the scheduling algorithm has no information about jobs arriving ahead. Also the jobs cannot be preempted or rejected while they are executed. For this problem, we obtain lower bounds for any online algorithms and also we propose an optimal online algorithm meeting the lower bounds.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.617-632
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• 2009

In this paper we propose a technique of implementing the reconfigurable network protocol stack that allows for partitioning network protocol functions into software and hardware tasks on a SoC (System on Chip) platform. Additionally, we present a method that guarantees the deadline of both an individual task and messages exchanging among tasks in order to meet the deadline of real-time multimedia and networking services. The proposed real-time message exchange method guarantees the deadline of messages generated by multimedia services that are required to meet the real-time properties of multimedia applications. After implementing the networking functions of TCP/IP protocol suite into hardware and software tasks, we verify and validate their performance on the SoC platform. Experimental results indicate that the proposed technique improves the performance of TCP/IP protocol suit as well as application service satisfaction in application-specific real-time.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.1285-1298
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• 2010

Since the TinyOS incorporating a non-preemptive task scheduling policy uses a FIFO (First-In First-Out) queue, a task with the highest priority cannot preempt a task with lower priority before the task with lower priority must run to completion. Therefore, the non-preemptive TinyOS cannot guarantee the completion of real-time user tasks within their deadlines. Additionally, the non-preemptive TinyOS needs to meet the deadlines of user tasks as well as those of TinyOS platform tasks called by user tasks in order to guarantee the deadlines of the real-time services requested by user tasks. In this paper, we present a group-based real-time scheduling technique that makes it possible to guarantee the deadlines of real-time user tasks in the TinyOS incorporating a non-preemptive task scheduling policy. The proposed technique groups together a given user task and TinyOS platform tasks called and activated by the user task, and then schedule them as a virtual big task. A case study shows that the proposed technique yields efficient performance in terms of guaranteeing the completion of user tasks within their deadlines and aiming to provide them with good average response time, while maintaining the compatibility of the existing non-preemptive TinyOS platform.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05c
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• pp.1757-1760
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• 2003

실시간 시스템에서 주기 태스크의 마감시간을 보장하며 도착 시간을 예측할 수 없는 비주기 태스크를 처리되도록 스케줄링 하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 정적 우선순위 스케줄링 방식 중 최적인 RM방식으로 주기 태스크를 스케줄링하고, 비주기 태스크의 발생시 비주기 태스크를 EDF 방식으로 스케줄링하여 오프라인에서 구한 슬랙을 비주기 태스크에 할당한다. 제안한 방식은 비주기 태스크의 마감시한내의 슬랙과 비주기 태스크의 실행 시간을 비교하여 비주기 태스크가 마감시한 내에 실행되지 못하는 경우 주기 태스크와 슬랙을 최적적합으로 교환하는 방식을 사용하여 비주기 태스크의 처리를 가능하게 하였다. 제안된 방식은 경성 비주기 태스크와 연성 비주기 태스크에 적용이 가능하며, 실험 결과 교환 알고리즘을 적용한 스케줄링 방식이 적용하지 않은 스케줄링 방식에 비해 비주기 태스크의 처리율이 높게 나왔다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.132-135
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• 2006

Recently, multimedia data service using mobile terminal has been increased according to the development of wireless network technology which can be used in an indoor or outdoor environment. However, the wireless network shares the channel and it has a high error rate because of characteristics of transmission media. Therefore, it has a lot of problems for guaranteeing QoS(Quality of Services) in various requirements. This paper suggests a CSD-WRR(Channel State Dependent-WRR) method for compensating the service rate considering the transmission deadline. Simulation results show that the suggested method outperforms the conventional WRR in the view of the deadline miss rate and fairness.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.8B
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• pp.509-520
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a real-time sensor node platform that guarantees the real-time scheduling of periodic and aperiodic tasks through a multitask-based software decomposition technique. Since existing sensor networking operation systems available in literature are not capable of supporting the real-time scheduling of periodic and aperiodic tasks, the preemption of aperiodic task with high priority can block periodic tasks, and so periodic tasks are likely to miss their deadlines. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of how to structure periodic or aperiodic task decomposition in real-time sensor-networking platforms as regard to guaranteeing the deadlines of all the periodic tasks and aiming to providing aperiodic tasks with average good response time. A case study based on real system experiments is conducted to illustrate the application and efficiency of the multitask-based dynamic component execution environment in the sensor node equipped with a low-power 8-bit microcontroller, an IEEE802.15.4 compliant 2.4GHz RF transceiver, and several sensors. It shows that our periodic and aperiodic task decomposition technique yields efficient performance in terms of three significant, objective goals: deadline miss ratio of periodic tasks, average response time of aperiodic tasks, and processor utilization of periodic and aperiodic tasks.

• Korea Information Processing Society Review
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.12-21
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• 1998

실시간 시스템은 범용 시스템과는 달리 계산 결과의 정확성뿐만 아니라 계산이 종료되는 시점에 의해 그 가치가 결정되는 시스템을 말한다. 따라서 실시간 태스크는 시간적 제한 조건으로서 마감 시한(deadline)을 가지고 있으며 실시간 스케줄링 방법은 범용 시스템에서 사용되는 스케줄링 방법과는 달리 태스크가 마감 시한 내에 종료될수 있음을 보장해 주어야 한다 또한 실시간 스케줄링 방법은 새로운 태스크의 실행을 허가하기 전에 새로운 태스크 집합의 스케줄 가능성을 분석함으로써 시스템 전체의 안전을 유지할 수 있어야 한다. 실시간 스케줄링 방법은 크게 시간 구동형 방식과 우선 순위 기반의 이벤트 구동형 방식으로 우선 순위 기반의 이벤트 구동형 방식으로 나누어지는데 본 논문에서는 주로 우선 순위 기반의 이벤트 구동형 방식으로 나누어지는데 본 논문에서는 주로 우선순위 기반의 스케줄링 방법에 대해서 살펴본다 또한 비주기적인 태스크를 우선 순위기반 스케줄링 방법에 적용하기 위한 여러 가지 기법들에 대해서도 살펴본다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.77-85
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• 2009

Execution times of tasks can be variable depend on input data. If we choose a high performance processor to satisfy the worst case execution times, the hard cost becomes high and the energy consumption also becomes large. To apply a lower performance processor, we have to utilize processor capacity maximally while overrunning tasks can not affect deadlines of other tasks. To be used for such systems, this paper presents SBP (Shared Bandwidth Partitioning) that a processor bandwidth is reserved and shared among all tasks. If a task needs more processor capacity, it can use a portion of the shared bandwidth. A simulation result shows that SBP provides better performance than previous algorithms. SBP reduces deadline miss ratio which is related to scheduling quality. And the number of context switches, which is related to system overhead, is also reduced.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.80-80
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• 2011

본 논문은 윈도우에 디바이스 드라이버 형태로 동작하는 실시간 이식 커널을 제안한다. x86하드웨어에서 제공하는 Local APIC(Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller)를 이용하여 윈도우와는 별도의 타이머를 제공하여, 독립적인 타이머 인터럽트를 통해 실시간성이 필요한 서비스가 정확한 주기로 동작하여 마감시한을 보장한다. 그리고 1553b 통신에서 IP470을 통해 오실로 스코프로 테스트하여 제안한 실시간 이식 커널이 실시간성을 보장함을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.119-121
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• 2000

실시간 시스템은 설계단계에서 주어진 태스크 집합에 맞게 구성되어 진다. 이러한 상황은 결국 동적인 상황에 시스템을 쉽게 적용할 수 없는 결과를 초래한다. 본 논문에서는 RTLinux환경에서 보다 동적인 상황에 적응하도록 효율적인 태스크 스케쥴링을 위한 프레임웍을 제시한다. Schedulability manager는 실시간 태스크의 특성에 맞게 스케쥴러를 선택하도록 하였으며 Slack manager는 non-critical 태스크를 스케쥴하도록 한다. 이로서 critical 태스크의 마감시한을 준수하면서 non-critical 태스크의 응답시간을 최소화한다.