Towards the Design of Certifiable Mixed-criticality Systems

  • Authors:
  • Sanjoy Baruah;Haohan Li;Leen Stougie

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • RTAS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Many safety-critical embedded systems are subject to certification requirements; some systems may be required to meet multiple sets of certification requirements, from different certification authorities. Certification requirements in such "mixed-criticality" systems give rise to some interesting scheduling problems, that cannot be satisfactorily addressed using techniques from conventional scheduling theory.In this paper, we propose a formal model for representing such mixed-criticality workloads.We demonstrate the intractability of determining whether a system specified in this model can be scheduled to meet all its certification requirements. For dual-criticality systems -- systems subject to two sets of certification requirements -- we quantify, via the metric of processor speedup factor, the effectiveness of 2 techniques (reservation-based scheduling and priority-based scheduling) that are widely used in scheduling such mixed-criticality systems.