It is well-known that the ability to support predictable inter-process communication is of great significance to manufacturing and process control systems. In this paper, we propose a strategy for a soon-to-be industr...
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The problem of mapping a task that is composed of interacting modules onto a hypercube multicomputer is formulated and solved by minimizing an objective function called the communication traffic. The objective functio...
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This papei addresses the problem of allocating (assigning and scheduling) periodic task modules to processing nodes (PNs) in distributed real-time systems subject to task precedence and timing constraints. Using the b...
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Modern real-time systems consist of distributed periodic processes that have critical timing constraints and share replicated resources. A mathematical model of the resource requirements of periodic processes that are...
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In a real-time control system where the control input is computed by a controller computer, the transient computer failures caused by an electromagnetic interference may seriously affect system stability. The faulty c...
In a real-time control system where the control input is computed by a controller computer, the transient computer failures caused by an electromagnetic interference may seriously affect system stability. The faulty controller computer causes either a long delay in the feedback loop thus failing to update the control input for one or more sampling intervals, or control input disturbances by updating the control inputincorrectly until the fault is handled properly. If the period of this abnormal behavior exceeds a certain limit called a hard deadline, either the necessary conditions for system stability will be violated or the system willleave the allowed state space. In such a case a dynamic failure is said to occur in the system. We present a method for deriving hard deadlines for linear time-invariant control systems by examining the stability of the state difference equations resulting from the modification of the original state equations with an assumed maximum delay and several random sequences that represent the effects of stationary occurrences of the disturbances to, as well as the random delays of, the control input. Moreover, a one-shot event model, in which a single long-lasting fault causes a dynamic failure, is presented based on the state trajectory and the allowed state space.
The authors address the problem of allocating (assigning and scheduling) periodic task modules to processing nodes (PNs) in distributed real-time systems subject to task precedence and timing constraints. Using the br...
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The authors address the problem of allocating (assigning and scheduling) periodic task modules to processing nodes (PNs) in distributed real-time systems subject to task precedence and timing constraints. Using the branch-and-bound technique, a module allocation algorithm (MAA) is proposed to find an optimal allocation that maximizes the probability of meeting task deadlines. To incorporate both timing and logical correctness into module allocation, the probability of meeting task deadlines is used as the objective function. The MAA is then applied to find an optimal allocation of task modules in a distributed system. The timing aspects embedded in the objective function drive the MAA not only to assign task modules to PNs, but also to use a module scheduling algorithm for scheduling all modules assigned to each PN so that all tasks may be completed in time. Several numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed algorithms.< >
The failure of automated morphologic detection of ventricular tachycardia (VT) or fibrillation (VF) is a limitation of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. As an adjunct to rate-based criteria, this study evaluate...
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The computation-time delay in the feedback controller of a real-time control system may cause failure to update the control input during one or more sampling periods. A dynamic failure is said to occur if this delay e...
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The computation-time delay in the feedback controller of a real-time control system may cause failure to update the control input during one or more sampling periods. A dynamic failure is said to occur if this delay exceeds a certain limit called a hard deadline. We present a method for calculating the hard deadlines in linear time-invariant control systems. To derive necessary conditions for (asymptotic) system stability, the state difference equation is modified based on an assumed maximum delay and the probability distribution of delays whose magnitudes are less than, or equal to, the assumed maximum delay. Moreover, the allowed state-space - which is derived from given input and state constraints - is used to calculate the hard deadline as a function of time and the system state. We also consider a one-shot delay model in which a single event causes a dynamic failure.
An increasing number of applications require packets to be delivered reliably within prespecified delay bounds. It is shown how this can be achieved by using real-time channels that make soft reservation of network re...
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An increasing number of applications require packets to be delivered reliably within prespecified delay bounds. It is shown how this can be achieved by using real-time channels that make soft reservation of network resources to ensure the timely delivery of real-time packets. Algorithms are presented for the establishment of real-time channels, and it is shown how the basic real-time channels can be enhanced to be fault tolerant using the multiple paths between a pair of communicating nodes. The contribution of the former is a tighter schedulability condition that makes more efficient use of network resources than other existing approaches, and the contribution of the latter is a significant improvement in fault tolerance over the basic real-time channel, which is inherently susceptible to component failures.< >
The feasibility of using buffered transmission, which has the advantages of eliminating the token passing overhead and relieving the network interface from the complex token handling operations, is considered. The con...
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The feasibility of using buffered transmission, which has the advantages of eliminating the token passing overhead and relieving the network interface from the complex token handling operations, is considered. The concept of a real-time channel (RTC) and the RTC establishment procedures are reviewed. Its performance is then compared with the FDDI timed token protocol. Simulation results show that the buffered transmission in local area ring networks equipped with real-time channels enhances both the networks' throughput and the ability to support heterogeneous real-time traffic. The implementation of the network interface is also examined with an example design showing the feasibility of real-time channels in high-speed local area networks.< >
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