An adaptive scheme for fault-tolerant scheduling of soft real-time tasks in multiprocessor systems |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Eclipz Nest Pervasive, System Group, IBM Austin, TX, USA;2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, 3219 Coover Hill, Ames IA 50011, USA;1. School of Computing and Mathematics, Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom;2. Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;3. Inria Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée, Valbonne, France;1. Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran;3. School of Computer Science, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran;1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain;2. Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain;3. Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy;4. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy;5. Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (TID), Madrid, Spain |
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| Abstract: | The scheduling of real-time tasks with primary-backup-based fault-tolerant requirements has been an important problem for several years. Most of the known scheduling schemes are non-adaptive in nature meaning that they do not adapt to the dynamics of faults and task's parameters in the system. In this paper, we propose an adaptive fault-tolerant scheduling scheme that has a mechanism to control the overlap interval between the primary and backup versions of tasks such that the overall performance of the system is improved. The overlap interval is determined based on the observed fault rate and task's soft laxity. We also propose a new performance index, called SR index, that integrates schedulability (S) and reliability (R) into a single metric. To evaluate the proposed scheme, we have conducted analytical and simulation studies under different fault and deadline scenarios, and found that the proposed adaptive scheme adapts to system dynamics and offers better SR index than that of the non-adaptive schemes. |
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