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From software sensitivity to software dynamics: performance metrics for real-time software architectures

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ACM SIGBED Review, Volume 2, Issue 3

Pages 20 - 24

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This paper outlines an approach and presents preliminary results to describe behavior of real-time software architectures using concepts from dynamical systems. The basic idea is to change deadlines by decreasing them within certain range and take measurements on the number of missed deadlines and the total time by which the deadlines have been missed. A resulting curve, illustrating the dependence between the missed deadlines and their decrease, characterizes system dynamics. It can be approximated by a straight line or an exponential shape, from which certain dynamic parameters can be calculated.

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ACM SIGBED Review Volume 2, Issue 3

Special issue: The second workshop on high performance, fault adaptive, large scale embedded real-time systems (FALSE-II)

July 2005

39 pages

EISSN:1551-3688

DOI:10.1145/1121802

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