Upper-bounding Program Execution Time with Extreme Value Theory

Authors Francisco J. Cazorla, Tullio Vardanega, Eduardo Quiñones, Jaume Abella



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Francisco J. Cazorla
Tullio Vardanega
Eduardo Quiñones
Jaume Abella

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Francisco J. Cazorla, Tullio Vardanega, Eduardo Quiñones, and Jaume Abella. Upper-bounding Program Execution Time with Extreme Value Theory. In 13th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 30, pp. 64-76, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2013)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2013.64

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In this paper we discuss the limitations of and the precautions to account for when using Extreme Value Theory (EVT) to compute upper bounds to the execution time of programs. We analyse the requirements placed by EVT on the observations to be made of the events of interest, and the conditions that render safe the computations of execution time upper bounds. We also study the requirements that a recent EVT-based timing analysis technique, Measurement-Based Probabilistic Timing Analysis (MBPTA), introduces, besides those imposed by EVT, on the computing system under analysis to increase the trustworthiness of the upper bounds that it computes.
Keywords
  • WCET
  • Extreme Value Theory
  • Probabilistic
  • Deterministic

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