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Multi-level hierarchical scheduling in ethernet switches

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The complexity of Networked Embedded Systems (NES) has been growing steeply, due to increases both in size and functionality, and is becoming a major development concern. This situation is pushing for paradigm changes in NES design methodologies towards higher composability and flexibility. Component-oriented design technologies, in particular supported by server-based scheduling, seem to be good candidates to provide the needed properties.
As a response we developed a multi-level hierarchical server-based architecture for Ethernet switches that provides composability and supports online adaptation and reconfiguration. This paper extends our work, presenting the associated response-time based schedulability analysis, necessary for the admission control procedure. Additionally, we have derived the temporal complexity of the analysis, which is shown to be O(n2), where n is the number of higher priority components associated with a given server. Finally, we present a proof-of-concept implementation and a set of experimental results that validates the analysis.

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EMSOFT '11: Proceedings of the ninth ACM international conference on Embedded software
October 2011
366 pages
ISBN:9781450307147
DOI:10.1145/2038642
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  1. hierarchical scheduling
  2. real-time communications
  3. real-time ethernet
  4. real-time systems
  5. response-time analysis

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ESWeek '11: Seventh Embedded Systems Week
October 9 - 14, 2011
Taipei, Taiwan

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