Scheduling Messages with Earliest Deadline Techniques

  • Authors:
  • Marco Di Natale;Antonio Meschi

  • Affiliations:
  • Università di Pisa, Dipartimento Ingegneria Dell'Informazione, via Diotisalvi 3, 56100 Pisa - Italy;Università di Pisa, Dipartimento Ingegneria Dell'Informazione, via Diotisalvi 3, 56100 Pisa - Italy

  • Venue:
  • Real-Time Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Thispaper discusses the applicability of earliest deadline schedulingtechniques to local area networks. The focus is on controllerarea networks (the only standard that allows direct implementation)although a comparison is tried with other possible implementationson different network topologies (and contention resolution methods).Message scheduling follows the well-known EDF algorithm. Thepaper discusses the limitations and the problems in the implementationof the algorithm on standard controller area network protocols.Then, it presents a short study on the comparative effectivenessof other contention resolution methods modeled on the standardsToken-ring and Carrier Sense Multiple Access-Collision DetectionCSMA-CD (all implementing the earliest deadline scheduling policy.)Finally, the paper shows how to compute an optimal packet sizewith respect to the guaranteeability of the real-time properties,exploiting the trade-off between preemptability and efficiency.