• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.687-690
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• 2002

In this paper, we present a novel semaphore implementation scheme which shortens finish time of high priority tasks and improves reliability of a system. The real-time systems have time constraints. Especially, the task with hard real-time constraints must meet its deadline. Consequently, managing shared resources is considered guaranteeing mutual exclusion as well as meeting task's deadline under unfavorable condition. According to the number and sort of the locked semaphores under the event occurred, this paper presents the reduction of the finish time of high priority task by decision whether the context switched or not. The experimental results show that the proposed method gives performance improvements in finish time of high priority tasks of about 11% over zuberi[4] method.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.946-951
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• 2009

The small multi-jointed robots for most education are developed with the way of firmware. But the firmware may be very difficult to develop as gradually increasing throughputs and control routines. Due to limit of firmware we try to use on RTOS, but hard to adapt on the small multi-jointed robots. It would be hard to install RTOS into the small multi-jointed robots because of the size capacity of RTOS, and lack of libraries for control of the particular hardware. Moreover, even its RTOS with many functions causes its to make overheads scheduling, TCB (Task Control Block), and task states. Also to keep maintenance of RTOS, it is composed of components for the whole structure of my proposed RTOS. Additionally, We provided with libraries of servo motor and sensor control and developed RMS (Rate Montonic scheduler) to handle tasks on real time and reduce overheads. Therefore, It is possible to work the fixed priority and task preemptive way. We show one example of the multi-jointed robot installed with my proposed RTOS, which shows to obstacle avoidance and climbing up the slope.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.40-46
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• 1999

The task scheduling has an effect on system execution time in a precedence constrained task graph onto the multiprocessor system. This problem is known to be NP-hard. many people made an effort to obtain near optimal schedule. We compared modified critical path schedule with many other methods(CP, MH, DL Swapping) For testing this subject, we created randomly a directed acyclic task graph with many root nodes and terminal nodes simulation result convinced for us that the modified critical path algorithm is superior to the other scheduling algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.2801-2809
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• 1996

Scheduling problems in real-time systems are known to be NP-hard. the heuristic approaches aregenerally aplied to solve a certain class of systems. One of such cases is to allocate periodic tasks to multiprocessors while the moethod assures the requirement of the deadine constraints of real-time systems. The study on the allocation of periodic taks includes RMNF, RMFF, FFDUF and Next-Fit-M algorithms, which make a set of task grups first and then allocate to processors. This papre proposes the various algorithms which are based on the Next-Fit-M. To analyze the four proposed methods, simulation was carried on, in which the sample tasks are randomly generated with the various time intervals. The proposed algorithms reduce the number of processors compared with the conventional methods.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.19-24
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• 2012

Purpose - This paper discusses the heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem with pick-up and delivery (HFFVRPPD), for vehicles with different capacities, fixed costs, and travel costs. Research Design, data, methodology - This paper made nine assumptions for establishing a mathematical model to describe HFFVRPPD. It established a practical mathematical model, and because of the non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard), improved the traditional simulated annealing algorithm and tested a new algorithm using a certain scale model. Result - We calculated the minimum cost of the heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem (HFFVRP) with a single task and, on comparing the results with the actual HFFVRP for the single task alone, observed that the total cost of HFFVRPPD reduced significantly by 46.7%. The results showed that the new algorithm provides better solutions and stability. Conclusions - This paper, by comparing the HFFVRP and HFFVRPPD results, highlights certain advantages of using HFFVRPPD in physical distribution enterprises, such as saving distribution vehicles, reducing logistics cost, and raising economic benefits.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.50-60
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• 2004

Recently, most of the embedded system is required not only many functions but also real-time characteristics in purpose. In the hard real-time system, especially, strict deadline of periodic task can affect the performance of the system. In this paper, we design and implement the scheduler based on RM(Rate-Monotonic) rule. This scheduler makes feasible patterns based on EDF(Earliest deadline first) rule with extended schedulability inspection before execution, for periodic task-set that has high CPU utilization and then, execute periodic task-set depended on feasible patterns. The feasible pattern formed into EDF rule is capable of the efficiency of CPU up to 100 percentage and by the referenced execution of the feasible pattern is possible of removing the red-time scheduling overhead that is the defect of the order of dynamic assignment rule.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.22-32
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• 2003

Many of multimedia applications in distributed environments generate the packets which have the real-time characteristics for continuous audio/video data and transmit them according to the teal-time task scheduling theories. In this paper, we model the traffic for continuous media in the distributed multimedia applications based on the high-bandwidth networks and introduce the PDMA algorithm which is the hard real-time task scheduling theory for guaranteeing QoS requested by the clients. Furthermore, we propose the admission control to control the new request not to interfere the current services for maintaining the high quality of services of the applications. Since the proposed admission control is sufficient for the PDMA algorithm, the PDMA algorithm is always able to find the feasible schedule for the set of messages which satisfies it. Therefore, if the set of messages including the new request to generate the new traffic. Otherwise, it rejects the new request. In final, we present the simulation results for showing that the scheduling with the proposed admission control is of practical use.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.1151-1161
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• 1998

In this paper, we are considering a heterogeneous processor system in which each processor may have different performance and reliability characteristics. In other to fully utilize this diversity of processing power it is advantageous to assign the program modules of a distributed program to the processors in such a way that the execution time of the entire program is minimized. This assignment of tasks to processors to maximize performance is commonly called load balancing, since the overloaded processors can perform their own processing with the performance degradation. For the task assignment problem, we propose a new objective function which formulates this imbalancing cost. Thus the task assignment problem is to be carried out so that each module is assigned to a processor whose capabilities are most appropriate for the module, and the total cost is minimized that sum of inter-processor communication cost and execution cost and imbalance cost of the assignment. To find optimal assignment is known to be NP-hard, and thus we proposed an efficient heuristic algorithm with time complexity $O(n^2m)$ in case of m task modules and n processors.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.866-874
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• 2006

This paper proposes a new Dynamic Voltage Scaling(DVS) algorithm to achieve low-power scheduling of aperiodic hard real-time tasks. Aperiodic tasks schedulingcannot be applied to the conventional DVS algorithm and result in consuming energy more than periodic tasks because they have no period, non predictable worst case execution time, and release time. In this paper, we defined Virtual Periodic Task Set(VTS) which has constant period and worst case execution time, and released aperiodic tasks are assigned to this VTS. The period and worst case execution time of the virtual task can be obtained by calculating task utilization rate of both periodic and aperiodic tasks. The proposed DVS algorithm scales the frequency of both periodic and aperiodic tasks in VTS. Simulation results show that the energy consumption of the proposed algorithm is reduced by 11% over the conventional DVS algorithm for only periodic task.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.9-20
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• 2009

In a real-time system with both hard real-time periodic tasks and soft real-time aperiodic tasks, it is important to guarantee the deadlines of each periodic task as well as obtain fast response time for each aperiodic task. This paper proposes Enhanced Total Bandwidth Server (ETBS) with possibly shorter response time than Total Bandwidth Server (TBS), which is efficient and widely used for servicing aperiodic tasks. For uniprocessor system using Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling algorithm, ETBS assigns an on-line deadline to each aperiodic task considering a surplus slack time which gained for every unit execution time of periodic job. The proposed method can fully utilize the processor while meeting all the deadlines of periodic tasks. We show that the proposed ETBS provides better response time of aperiodic tasks than TBS theoretically, but has the same computational complexity as TBS, O(1). Simulation results show that the response time of aperiodic tasks with ETBS are shorter than one with TBS.