Article

Free access

Synthesis of fault-tolerant schedules with transparency/performance trade-offs for distributed embedded systems

Authors:

Viacheslav Izosimov,

Zebo PengAuthors Info & Claims

DATE '06: Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe: Proceedings

Pages 706 - 711

Published: 06 March 2006 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we present an approach to the scheduling of fault-tolerant embedded systems for safety-critical applications. Processes and messages are statically scheduled, and we use process re-execution for recovering from multiple transient faults. If process recovery is performed such that the operation of other processes is not affected, we call it transparent recovery. Although transparent recovery has the advantages of fault containment, improved debugability and less memory needed to store the fault-tolerant schedules, it will introduce delays that can violate the timing constraints of the application. We propose a novel algorithm for the synthesis of fault-tolerant schedules that can handle the transparency/performance trade-offs imposed by the designer, and makes use of the fault-occurrence information to reduce the overhead due to fault tolerance. We model the application as a conditional process graph, where the fault occurrence information is represented as conditional edges and the transparent recovery is captured using synchronization nodes.

References

[1]

A. Bertossi, L. Mancini, "Scheduling Algorithms for Fault-Tolerance in Hard-Real Time Systems", Real Time Systems, 7(3), 229--256, 1994.

Digital Library

[2]

A. Burns et al., "Feasibility Analysis for Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Task Sets", Euromicro Workshop on Real-Time Systems, 29--33, 1996.

[3]

V. Claeson, S. Poldena, J. Söderberg, "The XBW Model for Dependable Real-Time Systems", Parallel and Distributed Systems Conf., 1998.

Digital Library

[4]

C. Dima et al, "Off-line Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Scheduling", Euromicro Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshop, 410--417, 2001.

[5]

G. Fohler, "Joint Scheduling of Distributed Complex Periodic and Hard Aperiodic Tasks in Statically Scheduled Systems", IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 152--161, 1995.

Digital Library

[6]

G. Fohler, "Adaptive Fault-Tolerance with Statically Scheduled Real-Time Systems", Euromicro Real-Time Systems Workshop, 161--167, 1997.

[7]

P. Eles et al., "Scheduling with Bus Access Optimization for Distributed Embedded Systems", IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, 8(5), 472--491, 2000.

Digital Library

[8]

C. C. Han, K. G. Shin, J. Wu, "A Fault-Tolerant Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Periodic Tasks with Possible Software Faults", IEEE Trans. on Computers, 52(3), 362--372, 2003.

Digital Library

[9]

V. Izosimov et al., "Design Optimization of Time- and Cost-Constrained Fault-Tolerant Distributed Embedded Systems", DATE Conf., 864--869, 2005.

Digital Library

[10]

N. Kandasamy, J. P. Hayes, B. T. Murray, "Transparent Recovery from Intermittent Faults in Time-Triggered Distributed Systems", IEEE Trans. on Computers, 52(2), 113--125, 2003.

Digital Library

[11]

N. Kandasamy, J. P. Hayes B. T. Murray "Dependable Communication Synthesis for Distributed Embedded Systems," Computer Safety, Reliability and Security Conf., 275--288, 2003.

[12]

H. Kopetz, Real-Time Systems--Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.

Digital Library

[13]

H. Kopets et al., "Distributed Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems: The Mars Approach", IEEE Micro, 9(1), 25--40, 1989.

Digital Library

[14]

H. Kopetz, Günter Bauer, "The Time-Triggered Architecture", Proc. of the IEEE, 91(1), 112--126, 2003.

[15]

C. Pinello, L. P. Carloni, A. L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, "Fault-Tolerant Deployment of Embedded Software for Cost-Sensitive Real-Time Feedback-Control Applications", DATE Conf., 1164--1169, 2004.

Digital Library

[16]

P. Pop, "Analysis and Synthesis of Communication-Intensive Heterogeneous Real-Time Systems", Ph. D. Thesis No. 833, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, 2003.

[17]

D. Ullman, "NP-Complete Scheduling Problems," in J. of Computer Systems Science, vol. 10, 384--393, 1975.

Digital Library

[18]

Y. Zhang, K. Chakrabarty, "Energy-Aware Adaptive Checkpointing in Embedded Real-Time Systems", DATE Conf., 918--923, 2003.

Digital Library

Cited By

Namazi AAbdollahi MSafari SMohammadi SDaneshtalab M(2016)Reliability-Aware Task Scheduling using Clustered Replication for Multi-core Real-Time systemsProceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures10.1145/2994133.2994138(45-50)Online publication date: 15-Oct-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2994133.2994138
Kang SYang HKim SBacivarov IHa SThiele L(2014)Static Mapping of Mixed-Critical Applications for Fault-Tolerant MPSoCsProceedings of the 51st Annual Design Automation Conference10.1145/2593069.2593221(1-6)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2593069.2593221
Gao YGupta SBreuer MMacii E(2013)Using explicit output comparisons for fault tolerant scheduling (FTS) on modern high-performance processorsProceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe10.5555/2485288.2485511(927-932)Online publication date: 18-Mar-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2485288.2485511
Show More Cited By

Recommendations

Scheduling and Optimization of Fault-Tolerant Embedded Systems with Transparency/Performance Trade-Offs

In this article, we propose a strategy for the synthesis of fault-tolerant schedules and for the mapping of fault-tolerant applications. Our techniques handle transparency/performance trade-offs and use the fault-occurrence information to reduce the ...
Energy/reliability trade-offs in fault-tolerant event-triggered distributed embedded systems
ASPDAC '11: Proceedings of the 16th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

This paper presents an approach to the synthesis of low-power fault-tolerant hard real-time applications mapped on distributed heterogeneous embedded systems. Our synthesis approach decides the mapping of tasks to processing elements, as well as the ...
Scheduling and voltage scaling for energy/reliability trade-offs in fault-tolerant time-triggered embedded systems
CODES+ISSS '07: Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis

In this paper we present an approach to the scheduling and voltage scaling of low-power fault-tolerant hard real-time applications mapped on distributed heterogeneous embedded systems. Processes and messages are statically scheduled, and we use process ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image Guide Proceedings

DATE '06: Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe: Proceedings

March 2006

1390 pages

ISBN:3981080106

General Chair:
Georges Gielen
KU Leuven, BE

Sponsors

EDAA: European Design Automation Association
The EDA Consortium
IEEE-CS\DATC: The IEEE Computer Society

Publisher

European Design and Automation Association

Leuven, Belgium

Publication History

Published: 06 March 2006

Qualifiers

Article

Acceptance Rates

DATE '06 Paper Acceptance Rate 267 of 834 submissions, 32%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 518 of 1,794 submissions, 29%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

11
Total Citations
View Citations
280
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)31
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)6

Reflects downloads up to 28 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Namazi AAbdollahi MSafari SMohammadi SDaneshtalab M(2016)Reliability-Aware Task Scheduling using Clustered Replication for Multi-core Real-Time systemsProceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures10.1145/2994133.2994138(45-50)Online publication date: 15-Oct-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2994133.2994138
Kang SYang HKim SBacivarov IHa SThiele L(2014)Static Mapping of Mixed-Critical Applications for Fault-Tolerant MPSoCsProceedings of the 51st Annual Design Automation Conference10.1145/2593069.2593221(1-6)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2593069.2593221
Gao YGupta SBreuer MMacii E(2013)Using explicit output comparisons for fault tolerant scheduling (FTS) on modern high-performance processorsProceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe10.5555/2485288.2485511(927-932)Online publication date: 18-Mar-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2485288.2485511
Bolchini CMiele ASciuto DRosenstiel WMacii E(2012)An adaptive approach for online fault management in many-core architecturesProceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe10.5555/2492708.2493058(1429-1432)Online publication date: 12-Mar-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2492708.2493058
Izosimov VPop PEles PPeng Z(2012)Scheduling and Optimization of Fault-Tolerant Embedded Systems with Transparency/Performance Trade-OffsACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems10.1145/2345770.234577311:3(1-35)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2345770.2345773
Meyer BCalhoun BLach JSkadron KGupta RMooney V(2011)Cost-effective safety and fault localization using distributed temporal redundancyProceedings of the 14th international conference on Compilers, architectures and synthesis for embedded systems10.1145/2038698.2038719(125-134)Online publication date: 9-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2038698.2038719
Lifa AEles PPeng ZIzosimov VGivargis TDonlin A(2010)Hardware/software optimization of error detection implementation for real-time embedded systemsProceedings of the eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis10.1145/1878961.1878970(41-50)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1878961.1878970
Glaß MLukasiewycz MHaubelt CTeich JSapatnekar S(2010)Towards scalable system-level reliability analysisProceedings of the 47th Design Automation Conference10.1145/1837274.1837334(234-239)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1837274.1837334
Eles PIzosimov VPop PPeng ZSciuto D(2008)Synthesis of fault-tolerant embedded systemsProceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe10.1145/1403375.1403644(1117-1122)Online publication date: 10-Mar-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1403375.1403644
Chatterjee KGhosal AHenzinger TIercan DKirsch CPinello CSangiovanni-Vincentelli ASciuto D(2008)Logical reliability of interacting real-time tasksProceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe10.1145/1403375.1403595(909-914)Online publication date: 10-Mar-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1403375.1403595
Show More Cited By

View Options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten