• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.165-170
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• 2011

The Pfair scheduling algorithm, which is an optimal algorithm in the hard real-time multiprocessor environments, is based on the fixed quantum size. Recently, several methods that can determine the optimal quantum dynamically are developed in the mode change environments. These methods are based on the reach function and in many cases, we have to do the sequential search to find the optimal quantum. In this paper, we propose a new scheduling method, based on the improved reach function, that can determine the optimal quantum more quickly.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.28-41
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• 2006

Recently, Baruah et.al. proposed an optimal Pfair scheduling algorithm in the hard real-time multiprocessor environments, and several variants of it were presented. All these algorithms assume the fixed unit quantum size, and this assumption has two problems in the mode change environments. If the quantum size is too large, it results in the scheduling failure due to the decreased processor utilization. If it is too small, it increases the frequency of scheduling points, and it incurs the task switching overheads. In this paper, we propose several methods that determine the maximum quantum size dynamically such that the task set can be scheduled in the mode change environments.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.41-47
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• 2011

The Pfair scheduling algorithm, which is an optimal scheduling algorithm in the hard real-time multiprocessor environments, propose the necessary and sufficient condition for the schedulability and is based on the fixed quantum size. Recently, several methods that determine the optimal quantum size dynamically were proposed in the mode change environments. But these methods considered only the case in which the period of a task is increased or decreased. In this paper, we also consider the case in which the execution time of a task is increased or decreased, and propose new methods that determine the optimal quantum size dynamically.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.2760-2765
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• 2009

Pfair scheduling algorithm, which is an optimal scheduling algorithm in the hard real-time multiprocessor environments, is based on the fixed quantum size. Recently, several methods that determine the maximum quantum size dynamically were proposed in the mode change environments. But these methods considered the case in which the period of a task can only be decreased. In this paper, we consider the case in which the period of a task can be decreased or increased, and propose an improved method that determine the maximum quantum size dynamically in the mode change environments. A simulation shows that the proposed method is effective.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.279-288
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• 2007

Recently, Baruah et. al. proposed an optimal Pfair scheduling algorithm in the real-time multiprocessor system environments, and several variants of it were presented. All these algorithms assume the fixed unit quantum size. However, under Pfair based scheduling algorithms that are global scheduling technique, quantum size has direct influence on the scheduling overheads such as task switching and cache reload. We proposed a method for deciding the optimal quantum size[2] and an improved method for the task set whose utilization e is less than or equal to $e\;{\leq}\;p/3+1$[3]. However, these methods use repetitive computation of the task's utilization to determine the optimal quantum size. In this paper, we propose a more efficient method that can determine the optimal quantum size in constant time.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.7
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• pp.39-49
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• 2007

Since the PF scheduling algorithm[13], which is optimal in the hard real-time multiprocessor environments, several scheduling algorithms have been proposed. All these algorithms assume the fixed unit quantum size, and this assumption has problems in the mode change environments. To settle the problem, we already proposed a method for deciding the optimal quantum size[2]. In this paper, we propose improved methods considering the task set whose utilization e is less than or equal to p/3+1. As far as the numbers of computations used to determine the optimal quantum size are concerned, newly proposed methods are proved to be more efficient than our previous ones.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.1478-1490
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• 2011

Recently, multi-core processors have been drawing significant interest from the embedded systems research and industry communities due mainly to their potential for achieving high performance and fault-tolerance at low cost in such products as automobiles and cell phones. To process multimedia data, a scheduling algorithm is required to meet timing constraints of periodic tasks in the system. Though Pfair scheduling algorithm can meet all the timing constraints while achieving 100% utilization on multi-core based system theoretically, however, the algorithm incurs high scheduling overheads including frequent core migrations and system-wide synchronizations. To mitigate the problems, we propose a real-time scheduling algorithm for multi-core based system so that system-wide scheduling is performed only when it is absolutely necessary. Otherwise the proposed algorithm performs scheduling within each core independently. The experimental results by extensive simulations show that the proposed algorithm dramatically reduces the scheduling overheads up to as negligible one when the utilization is under 80%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.370-372
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• 2002

다중처리기 상에서 실시간 태스크 스케줄링에 대한 연구가 현재 많이 수행되고 있지만, 주로 Pfair(P-fairness)와 EDF(Earliest Deadline First) 알고리즘에 대한 연구이다. Pfair는 이론적인 연구에 초점을 두고 있으며, EDF는 처리기들을 효율적으로 이용하지 못하는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 다중처리기 상의 주기적인 실시간 태스크 집합을 대상으로, LLA(Least Laxity Algorithm) 알고리즘이 높은 스케줄링 가능성(schedulability)을 가짐을 먼저 보인다. 다음으로 기존 알고리즘들의 문제점을 보완하기 위해 EDF와 LLA를 결합한 ED/LL(Earliest Deadline/Least Laxity)이라는 알고리즘을 제시한다. ED/LL은 LLA보다 문맥교환 횟수는 적고 EDF보다 스케줄링 가능성이 높으며, 구현 오버헤드도 크지 않다.