A new way about using statistical analysis of worst-case execution times

  • Authors:
  • Yue Lu;Thomas Nolte;Iain Bate;Liliana Cucu-Grosjean

  • Affiliations:
  • Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre (MRTC), Västerås, Sweden;Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre (MRTC), Västerås, Sweden;University of York, York, United Kingdom;INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, Nancy, France

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGBED Review - Work-in-Progress (WiP) Session of the 23rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2011)
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we revisit the problem of using Extreme Value Theory (EVT) in the Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) analysis of the programs running on a single processor. Our proposed statistical WCET analysis method consists of a novel sampling mechanism tackling with some problems that hindered the application of using EVT in the context, and a statistical inference about computation of a WCET estimate of the target program. To be specific, the presented sampling mechanism takes analysis samples from the target program based around end-to-end measurements. Next, the statistical inference using EVT together with other statistical techniques, analyzes such timing traces which contain the execution time data of the program, to compute a WCET estimate with a certain predictable probability of being exceeded.