Adaptive real-time scheduling for legacy multimedia applications

  • Authors:
  • Tommaso Cucinotta;Fabio Checconi;Luca Abeni;Luigi Palopoli

  • Affiliations:
  • Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy;Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna;Universitá Di Trento;Universitá Di Trento

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Multimedia applications are often executed on standard personal computers. The absence of established standards has hindered the adoption of real-time scheduling solutions in this class of applications. Developers have adopted a wide range of heuristic approaches to achieve an acceptable timing behavior but the result is often unreliable. We propose a mechanism to extend the benefits of real-time scheduling to legacy applications based on the combination of two techniques: (1) a real-time monitor that observes and infers the activation period of the application, and (2) a feedback mechanism that adapts the scheduling parameters to improve its real-time performance.