Exact admission-control for integrated aperiodic and periodic tasks

  • Authors:
  • Björn Andersson;Cecilia Ekelin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden;Department of Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Admission-controllers are used to prevent overload in systems with dynamically arriving tasks. Typically, these admission-controllers are based on sufficient (but not necessary) capacity bounds in order to maintain a low computational complexity. In this paper we present how exact admission-control for aperiodic tasks can be efficiently obtained. Our first result is an admission-controller for purely aperiodic task sets where the test has the same runtime complexity as utilization-based tests. Our second result is an extension of the previous controller for a baseload of periodic tasks. The runtime complexity of this test is lower than for any known exact admission-controller. In addition to presenting our main algorithm and evaluating its performance, we also discuss some general issues concerning admission-controllers and their implementation.