Modern Control Engineering
Adaptive Control
Adaptive reservations in a Linux environment
RTAS '04 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
QoS Control Strategies for High-Quality Video Processing
ECRTS '04 Proceedings of the 16th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems
Principles for the Prediction of Video Decoding Times Applied to MPEG-1/2 and MPEG-4 Part 2 Video
RTSS '06 Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia
An Adaptive Framework for Multiprocessor Real-Time System
ECRTS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems
On the Scheduling of Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Task Sets
RTSS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
An incremental approach to scheduling during overloads in real-time systems
RTSS'10 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE conference on Real-time systems symposium
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For important classes of interactive consumer applications, such as gaming and video, the Quality-of-Service requirement is to create a maximally immersive experience for the interactive user. This necessitates a trade-off between maximizing the computational complexity of application features versus the need to maintain a smooth and sufficiently high frame-rate. The implementation of these applications using conventional C/C++/Java development flows, their highly data-dependent time-varying nature, and the lack of analytical models for their execution time behavior pose unique challenges in obtaining significant QoS improvements. In this paper, we propose an adaptive feedback controller that dynamically tunes the application feature set in the face of the challenges outlined above. We use a system-identification strategy where the controller estimates an application's execution characteristics based on i) a limited amount of domain knowledge common to video and gaming, and ii) the observed response of the application to control inputs. Therefore, the proposed controller is suitable for a range of interactive applications without needing application-specific knowledge. We use a commercial game engine and the MPEG2 encoder as representative real-world applications to show that our strategy offers a simple practical solution to achieve substantial improvements in QoS across a wide range of operating conditions