Generalized Multiframe Tasks

A new model for sporadic task systems is introduced. This model— the generalized multiframe task model—further generalizes both the conventional sporadic-tasks model, and the more recent multiframe model of Mok and Chen. A framework for determining feasibility for a wide variety of task systems is established; this framework is applied to this task model to obtain a feasibility-testing algorithm that runs in time pseudo-polynomial in the size of the input for all systems of such tasks whose densities are bounded by a constant less than one.     

A formal framework to test soft and hard deadlines in timed systems

This paper introduces a formal framework to specify and test systems presenting both soft and hard deadlines. While hard deadlines must always be met on time, soft deadlines can be sometimes met in a different time, usually greater, from the specified one. It is this characteristic (to formally definetextitsometimes) that produces several reasonable alternatives to define appropriate implementation relations, that is, relations to decide whether an implementation is correct with respect to a specification. In addition to introducing these relations, the paper also presents a formal testing framework to test implementations and provides an algorithm to derive sound and complete test suites with respect to the implementation relations previously defined. That is, an implementation conforms to a specification if and only if the implementation successfully passes all the tests belonging to the suite derived from the specification. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

两种经典实时调度算法的研究与实现

速率单调（RM）调度和最早截止期限优先（EDF）调度在实时调度领域占有重要低位。基于一个x86体系结构的小系统上设计实现RM和EDF调度算法，并在不同的工作负载下，以任务截止期错失率作为衡量不同任务调度算法性能优劣的指标，对两种算法进行了性能分析和比较。在通常情况下，RM和EDF都可以保证任务成功调度，EDF算法可承受较多的工作负载。但是随着负载的增加，EDF算法性能急剧下降，到一定过载程度，EDF算法性能低于RM算法。     

高负荷下带有放弃的GI/GI/m队列

本文将带有放弃的GI/GI/1队列推广到GI/GI/m队列。通过引入奥伦斯坦-乌伦贝克过程和布朗运动,构造出该模型中负荷过程和队长过程的表达式。在高负荷条件下,我们获得了系统中负荷过程和队长过程的收敛极限。     

An analysis of global edf schedulability for arbitrary-deadline sporadic task systems

Recent results on the global multiprocessor edf scheduling of sporadic task systems are, for the most part, applicable only to task systems in which each task’s relative deadline parameter is constrained to be no larger than its minimum inter-arrival separation. This paper introduces new analysis techniques that allow for similar results to be derived for task systems in which individual tasks are not constrained in this manner. For tasks with deadlines greater than their minimum inter-arrival separation, two models are considered, with and without an implicit intra-task job precedence constraint. The new analyses yield schedulability conditions that strictly dominate some previously proposed tests that are generally accepted to represent the current state of the art in multiprocessor edf schedulability analysis, and permits the derivation of an improved speed-up bound.

抗浮锚杆在南航珠海区域总部工程中的应用

论文介绍了抗浮锚杆的特点及施工难点,特别介绍了在砾砂层施工时要注意的管理要点。     

Secure buffering in firm real-time database systems

Many real-time database applications arise in electronic financial services, safety-critical installations and military systems where enforcing security is crucial to the success of the enterprise. We investigate here the performance implications, in terms of killed transactions, of guaranteeing multi-level secrecy in a real-time database system supporting applications with firm deadlines. In particular, we focus on the buffer management aspects of this issue. Our main contributions are the following. First, we identify the importance and difficulties of providing secure buffer management in the real-time database environment. Second, we present SABRE, a novel buffer management algorithm that provides covert-channel-free security. SABRE employs a fully dynamic one-copy allocation policy for efficient usage of buffer resources. It also incorporates several optimizations for reducing the overall number of killed transactions and for decreasing the unfairness in the distribution of killed transactions across security levels. Third, using a detailed simulation model, the real-time performance of SABRE is evaluated against unsecure conventional and real-time buffer management policies for a variety of security-classified transaction workloads and system configurations. Our experiments show that SABRE provides security with only a modest drop in real-time performance. Finally, we evaluate SABRE's performance when augmented with the GUARD adaptive admission control policy. Our experiments show that this combination provides close to ideal fairness for real-time applications that can tolerate covert-channel bandwidths of up to one bit per second (a limit specified in military standards). Received March 1, 1999 / Accepted October 1, 1999     

Automatic Verification of the IEEE-1394 Root Contention Protocol with KRONOS and PRISM

We report on the automatic verification of timed probabilistic properties of the IEEE 1394 root contention protocol combining two existing tools: the real-time model-checker KRONOS and the probabilistic model-checker PRISM. The system is modelled as a probabilistic timed automaton. We first use KRONOS to perform a symbolic forward reachability analysis to generate the set of states that are reachable with non-zero probability from the initial state, and before the deadline expires. We then encode this information as a Markov decision process to be analyzed with PRISM. We apply this technique to compute the minimal probability of a leader being elected before a deadline, for different deadlines, and study the influence of using a biased coin on this minimal probability.