• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.145-150
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• 1999

A real-time control system, composed of the controlled processor and the controller computer(s), may have a variety of task types, some of which have tight timing-constraints in generating the correct control input. The maximum period of those task failures tolerable by the system is called the hard deadline, which depends on not only fault characteristics but also task characteristics. In the paper, we extend a method deriving the hard deadline in LTI system executing single task. An algorithm to combine the deadlines of all the elementary tasks in the same operation-mode is proposed to derive the hard deadline of the entire system. For the end, we modify the state equation for the task to capture the effects of task failures (delays in producing correct values) and inter-correlation. We also classify the type of executing the tasks according to operation modes associated with relative importance of correlated levels among tasks, into series, parallel, and cascade modes. Some examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.123-126
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• 2018

자율 주행 자동차는 다수의 센서와 ECU 등으로 구성된 분산 시스템이다. 이 시스템은 다양한 시간적 제약사항들을 갖는 자율주행 응용들을 구동하며 각 응용들에 대한 시간적 제약사항 위반을 탐지해야한다. 이러한 분산 시스템에서 응용들 간의 통신을 위해 사용되는 미들웨어들 중 대표적인 것은 DDS이다. DDS는 높은 확장성을 지원하는 발행-구독 통신 모델을 기반으로 하며, 실시간성을 고려한 다양한 QoS 정책들을 제공한다. 하지만 DDS는 자율주행 응용이 요구하는 시간적 제약사항들 중 deadline과 correlation 제약 사항에 대한 위반 여부를 탐지하지 못한다. 본 논문은 DDS 기반 시스템에서 deadline과 correlation 제약 사항 위반 여부를 런타임에서 탐지하는 기법을 제안한다. 본 연구진은 제안된 기법을 DDS의 구현들 중 하나인 Vortex 사의 OpenSplice 기반 시스템에 구현하였다. 실험을 통해 검증한 결과, deadline과 correlation 제약 사항에 대한 위반 여부를 적은 오버헤드와 함께 성공적으로 탐지하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.10
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• pp.2797-2808
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• 1999

Timing Constraint Petri Nets(TCPN) extend petri nets by adding timing constraints, it is provide a formal method for the modeling and analysis of real-time system. A real-time schedulability analysis decide that a set of concurrent processes will always meet its deadline. In this paper, we present TCPN model for real-time system include timing constraints and propose a schedulability analysis algorithm using them. Also, When the TCPN model is unscheduleable under the imposed timing constraints, we propose a recovery technique that will be scheduleable by the system specification modifying or timing constraints relaxing in the optimized time.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.243-254
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• 2005

Soft real-time applications such as multimedia feature highly variable processor requirements and probabilistic guarantees on deadline misses, meaning that each task in the application meets its deadline with a given probability. Thus, for such soft real-time applications, a system designer may want to improve the system utilization by allocating to each task a processor time less than its worst-case requirement, as long as the imposed probabilistic timing constraint is met. In this case, however, we have to address how to schedule jobs of a task that require more than (or, overrun) the allocated processor time to the task. In this paper, to address the overrun problem, we propose an overrun control method, which probabilistically controls the execution of overrunning jobs. The proposed overrun control method probabilistically allows overrunning jobs to complete for better system utilization, and also probabilistically prevents the overrunning jobs from completing so that the required probabilistic timing constraint for each task can be met. In the paper, we show that the proposed method outperforms previous methods proposed in the literature in terms of the overall deadline miss ratio, and that it is possible to synthesize the scheduling parameters of our method so that all tasks can meet the given probabilistic timing constraints.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.68-70
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 클록들을 주기적으로 동기화하는 분산 실시간 시스템에서 주어진 태스크의 시간 제약(timing constraint)을 변환시는 구가지 기법을 제안한다. 전형적인 이산 클록 동기화(discrete clock synchronization)알고리즘은 클록의 값을 순간적으로 보정(correct)하여 클록의 시간이 불연속적으로 진행학 한다. 이러한 시간상의 불연속성은 태스크의 시작제한시간(release time)이나 종료시한(deadline)과 같은 이벤트를 잃어버리거나 다시 발생시키는 오류를 범하게 한다. 클록 시간의 불연속성을 피하기 위해 일반적으로 연속 클록 동기화(continuous clock synchronization) 기법이제안되었지만 소프트웨어적으로 구현되기에는 많은 오버헤드를 유발시키는 문제점이 있다. 이에 따라 연속 클록 동기화는 PLL (Phase-Locked Loop)을 이용한 별도의 하드웨어를 사용하는 것이 보통이다. 본 논문에서는 연속 클록 동기화 기법을 사용하는 대신, 태스크의 시간 제약을 동적으로 변환시키는 DCT (Dynamic Constraint Transformation) 기법을 제안하였다. DCT는 소프트웨어 으로 구현이 가능하여 새로운 하드웨어를 필요로 하지 않으며, 이를 통해 기존의 이산적으로 동기화된 시스템에서 클록 시간의 불연속성에 의한 문제점들을 해결할 수 있다. 또 다른 문제점으로서, 클록의 물리적인 특성으로 인해 동기화된 클록들이 상한된(bounded from the above)오차(skew)를 갖는다는 것이다. 이러한 오차는 지역 클록(local clock)에 대해 만족될 수 있는 임의의 실기간 제약 조건이 전역 클록(global clock)에 대해서는 만족되지 않을 수 있음을 의미한다. 본 논문에서는 이를 위해 먼저 두 가지의 스케줄링 가능성, 지역적 스케줄링 가능서(local schedulability)과 전역적 스케줄링 가능성(global schedulability)을 정의하고, 실시간 제약을 정적으로 변환시키는 SCT (Static Constraint Transformation)기법을 제안하였다. SCT를 통해 지역적으로 스케줄링 가능한 태스크는 전역적으로 스케줄링이 가능하므로, 단지 지역적 스케줄링 가능성만을 검사하면서 스케줄링 문제를 해결할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.113-119
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• 2000

In this paper, we design and implement a query processor of real-time main memory database systems, which reflect the characteristics of main memory database systems and satisfy timing constraints. The proposed query processor manages real-time data that has timing constraint by exploiting meta database. It supports CLI in order to make application programs. It also supports extended CLI and stored CLI. The former can be expressed the Information on real-time transaction. The latter is designed to support frequently processed transaction. The proposed query processor is implemented as query processor of real-time database management systems. We Present performance evaluation results that illustrate ratio of transaction, which satisfy deadline are increased by the query processing ability of system and the efficient management of real-time data.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1333-1343
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• 1999

경성 실시간 시스템의 태스크들은 논리적으로 올바른 결과를 산출해야 하지만 또한 각자의 시간 제한 조건을 만족하여야 한다. 간격제한 스케줄링은 시간 제한 조건이 시간 간격 제한으로 주어지는 실시간 태스크들을 스케줄하기 위하여 도입되었다. 간격제한 스케줄링에서의 각 태스크들은 시간 간격 제한 조건을 갖는데, 이것은 태스크의 두 연속적인 수행의 종료시간에 대해 제한을 가한다. 다시 말해, 간격제한 스케줄링에서의 각 태스크 수행은 그 태스크의 직전 수행 완료 시간으로부터 발생하는 데드라인을 갖는다. 간격제한 태스크 스케줄링에 관한 많은 연구는 단순화 방법에 기초하고 있다. 그러나, 우리는 이 논문에서 단순화 방법을 사용하지 않고, 정적 우선순위 및 정적 분리 제한 정책을 채용한 새로운 간격제한 태스크 스케줄링 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 정적 할당 방법은 스케줄링 분석 및 구현을 매우 간단히 할 수 있으며, 또한 스케줄러의 실행시간 오버헤드를 줄일 수 있다.Abstract Tasks in hard real-time systems must not only be logically correct but also meet their timing constraints. The distance-constrained scheduling has been introduced to schedule real-time tasks whose timing constraints are characterized by temporal distance constraints. Each task in the distance-constrained scheduling has a temporal distance constraint which imposes restriction on the finishing times of two consecutive executions of the task. Thus, each execution of a task in the distance-constrained scheduling has a deadline relative to the finishing time of the previous execution of the task.Much work on the distance-constrained task scheduling has been based on the reduction technique. In this paper, we propose a new scheme for the distance-constrained task scheduling which does not use the reduction technique but adopts static priority and static separation constraint assignment policy. We show that our static assignment approach can simplify the scheduling analysis and its implementation, and can also reduce the run-time overhead of the scheduler.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.230-245
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• 2002

Database systems for real-time applications must satisfy timing constraints associated with transactions. Typically, a timing constraint is expressed in the form of a deadline and is represented as a priority to be used by schedulers. Recently, security has become another important issue in many real-time applications. In many systems, sensitive information is shared by multiple users with different levees of security clearance. As more advanced database systems are being used in applications that need to support timeliness while managing sensitive information, there is an urgent need to develop concurrency control protocols in transaction management that satisfy both timing and security requirements. In this paper, we propose two concurrence control protocols that ensure both security and real-time requirements. The proposed protocols are primarily based on multiversion locking. However, in order to satisfy timing constraint and security requirements, a new method, called the FREEZE, is proposed. In addition, we show that our protocols work correctly and they provide a higher degree of concurrency than existing multiversion protocols. We Present several examples to illustrate the behavior of our protocols, along with performance comparisons with other protocols. The simulation results show that the proposed protocols can achieve significant performance improvement.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.56-73
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• 2007

Demands have been growing in safety-critical application fields for producing networked real-time embedded computing (NREC) systems together with acceptable assurances of tight service time bounds (STBs). Here a service time can be defined as the amount of time that the NREC system could take in accepting a request, executing an appropriate service method, and returning a valid result. Enabling systematic composition of large-scale NREC systems with STB certifications has been recognized as a highly desirable goal by the research community for many years. An appealing approach for pursuing such a goal is to establish a hard-real-time (HRT) component model that contains its own STB as an integral part. The TMO (Time-Triggered Message-Triggered Object) programming scheme is one HRT distributed computing (DC) component model established by the first co-author and his collaborators over the past 15 years. The TMO programming scheme has been intended to be an advanced high-level RT DC programming scheme that enables development of NREC systems and validation of tight STBs of such systems with efforts far smaller than those required when any existing lower-level RT DC programming scheme is used. An additional goal is to enable maximum exploitation of concurrency without damaging any major structuring and execution approaches adopted for meeting the first two goals. A number of previously untried program structuring approaches and execution rules were adopted from the early development stage of the TMO scheme. This paper presents new concrete justifications for those approaches and rules, and also discusses new extensions of the TMO scheme intended to enable further exploitation of concurrency in NREC system design and programming.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.9
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• pp.1167-1176
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• 2002

In a (hard) real-time system, every time-critical task must meet its timing constraint, which is typically specified in terms of its deadline. Many computer systems, such as those for open system environment or multimedia services, need an efficient schedulability test for on-line real-time admission control of new jobs. Although various polynomial time schedulability tests have been proposed, they often fail to decide the schedulability of the system precisely when the system is heavily loaded. Furthermore, the most of previous studies on on-line real-time schedulability tests are concentrated on periodic task applications. Thus, this paper presents an efficient on-line real-time schedulability check algorithm which can be used for imprecise real-time system predictability before dispatching of on-line imprecise real-time task system consisted of aperiodic and preemptive task sets when the system is overloaded.