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Towards Efficient Explainability of Schedulability Properties in Real-Time Systems

Authors Sanjoy Baruah , Pontus Ekberg

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  • Computer systems organization → Real-time systems
  • Software and its engineering → Scheduling
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  • Recurrent Task Systems
  • Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Schedulability
  • Verification
  • Explanation
  • Computational Complexity
  • Approximation Schemes

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Abstract

The notion of efficient explainability was recently introduced in the context of hard-real-time scheduling: a claim that a real-time system is schedulable (i.e., that it will always meet all deadlines during run-time) is defined to be efficiently explainable if there is a proof of such schedulability that can be verified by a polynomial-time algorithm. We further explore this notion by (i) classifying a variety of common schedulability analysis problems according to whether they are efficiently explainable or not; and (ii) developing strategies for dealing with those determined to not be efficiently schedulable, primarily by identifying practically meaningful sub-problems that are efficiently explainable.

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Sanjoy Baruah and Pontus Ekberg. Towards Efficient Explainability of Schedulability Properties in Real-Time Systems. In 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 262, pp. 2:1-2:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2023.2

Author Details

Sanjoy Baruah
  • Washington University in Saint Louis, MO, USA
Pontus Ekberg
  • Uppsala University, Sweden

Funding

  • Baruah, Sanjoy: US National Science Foundation (Grants CNS-2141256 and CNS-2229290).
  • Ekberg, Pontus: Swedish Research Council grant 2018-04446.

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