Self-organized Message Scheduling for Asynchronous Distributed Embedded Systems

Ziermann T, Salcic Z, Teich J (2011)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2011

Journal

Publisher: Springer-verlag

Edited Volumes: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

City/Town: Heidelberg

Book Volume: 6906

Pages Range: 132-148

Conference Proceedings Title: Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing

Event location: Banff CA

ISBN: 978-3-642-23495-8

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23496-5_10

Abstract

A growing number of control systems are distributed and based on the use of a communication bus. The distributed nodes execute periodic tasks, which access the bus by releasing the messages using a priority-based mechanism with the goal of minimal message response times. Instead of randomly accessing the bus, a dynamic scheduling of messages technique based on adaptation of time offsets between message releases is used. The presented algorithm, called DynOAA, is executing on each node of the distributed system. It takes into account the current traffic on the bus and tries to avoid simultaneous release of messages by different nodes, hence reduces the likelihood of conflicts and need for repeated release. In this paper, we first address single bus (segment) systems and then extend the model and the offset adaptation algorithm to systems that use multiple buses (segments) connected by a communication gateway. A rating function based on the average of maximum response times is used to analyze DynOAA for the case of CAN-bus systems based on bit-accurate simulations. Experiments show the robustness of the algorithm (1) in case of fully asynchronous systems, (2) ability to deal with systems that change their configuration (add or remove message release nodes) dynamically and (3) model systems containing multiple bus segments connected by a gateway. The approach is also applicable to other priority-based bus systems. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.

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APA:

Ziermann, T., Salcic, Z., & Teich, J. (2011). Self-organized Message Scheduling for Asynchronous Distributed Embedded Systems. In Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (pp. 132-148). Banff, CA: Heidelberg: Springer-verlag.

MLA:

Ziermann, Tobias, Zoran Salcic, and Jürgen Teich. "Self-organized Message Scheduling for Asynchronous Distributed Embedded Systems." Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC'11), Banff Heidelberg: Springer-verlag, 2011. 132-148.

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