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SP-IMPact: A Framework for Static Partitioning Interference Mitigation and Performance Analysis

Authors: Diogo Costa, Gonçalo Moreira, Afonso Oliveira, José Martins, and Sandro Pinto

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 128, Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025)


Abstract
Modern embedded systems are evolving toward complex, heterogeneous architectures to accommodate increasingly demanding applications. Driven by industry SWAP-C (Size, Weight, Power, and Cost) constraints, this shift has led to the consolidation of multiple systems onto single hardware platforms. Static Partitioning Hypervisors (SPHs) offer a promising solution to partition hardware resources and provide spatial isolation between critical workloads. However, shared hardware resources like the Last-Level Cache (LLC) and system bus can introduce significant temporal interference between virtual machines (VMs), negatively impacting performance and predictability. Over the past decade, academia and industry have focused on developing interference mitigation techniques, such as cache partitioning and memory bandwidth reservation. Configuring these techniques, however, is complex and time-consuming. Cache partitioning requires careful balancing of cache sections across VMs, while memory bandwidth reservation requires tuning bandwidth budgets and periods. With numerous possible configurations, testing all combinations is impractical and often leads to suboptimal configurations. Moreover, there is a gap in understanding how these techniques interact, as their combined use can result in compounded or conflicting effects on system performance. Static analysis solutions that estimate worst-case execution times (WCET) and upper bounds on execution times provide some guidance for configuring interference mitigation techniques. While useful in identifying potential interference effects, these tools often fail to capture the full complexity of modern multi-core systems, as they typically focus on a limited set of shared resources and neglect other sources of contention, such as IOMMUs and interrupt controllers. To address these challenges, we introduce SP-IMPact, an open-source framework designed to analyze and guide the configuration of interference mitigation techniques, through the deployment of diverse VM configurations and setups, and assessment of hardware-level contention (leveraging SPHs). It supports two mitigation techniques: (i) cache coloring and (ii) memory bandwidth reservation, while also evaluating the interactions between these techniques and their cumulative impact on system performance. By providing insights on real hardware platforms, SP-IMPact helps to optimize the configuration of these techniques in mixed-criticality systems, ensuring both performance and predictability.

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Diogo Costa, Gonçalo Moreira, Afonso Oliveira, José Martins, and Sandro Pinto. SP-IMPact: A Framework for Static Partitioning Interference Mitigation and Performance Analysis. In Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 128, pp. 5:1-5:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{costa_et_al:OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.5,
  author =	{Costa, Diogo and Moreira, Gon\c{c}alo and Oliveira, Afonso and Martins, Jos\'{e} and Pinto, Sandro},
  title =	{{SP-IMPact: A Framework for Static Partitioning Interference Mitigation and Performance Analysis}},
  booktitle =	{Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:15},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-366-9},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{128},
  editor =	{Yomsi, Patrick Meumeu and Wildermann, Stefan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229911},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Virtualization, Contention, Multi-core Interference, Mixed-Criticality Systems, Arm}
}
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H-MBR: Hypervisor-Level Memory Bandwidth Reservation for Mixed Criticality Systems

Authors: Afonso Oliveira, Diogo Costa, Gonçalo Moreira, José Martins, and Sandro Pinto

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 128, Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025)


Abstract
Recent advancements in fields such as automotive and aerospace have driven a growing demand for robust computational resources. Applications that were once designed for basic Microcontroller Units (MCUs) are now deployed on highly heterogeneous System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms. While these platforms deliver the necessary computational performance, they also present challenges related to resource sharing and predictability. These challenges are particularly pronounced when consolidating safety-critical and non-safety-critical systems, the so-called Mixed-Criticality Systems (MCS) to adhere to strict Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C) requirements. MCS consolidation on shared platforms requires stringent spatial and temporal isolation to comply with functional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262). Virtualization, mainly leveraged by hypervisors, is a key technology that ensures spatial isolation across multiple OSes and applications; however ensuring temporal isolation remains challenging due to contention on shared resources, such as main memory, caches, and system buses, which impacts real-time performance and predictability. To mitigate this problem, several strategies (e.g., cache coloring and memory bandwidth reservation) have been proposed. Although cache coloring is typically implemented on state-of-the-art hypervisors, memory bandwidth reservation approaches are commonly implemented at the Linux kernel level or rely on dedicated hardware and typically do not consider the concept of Virtual Machines that can run different OSes. To fill the gap between current memory bandwidth reservation solutions and the deployment of MCSs that operate on a hypervisor, this work introduces H-MBR, an open-source VM-centric memory bandwidth reservation mechanism. H-MBR features (i) VM-centric bandwidth reservation, (ii) OS and platform agnosticism, and (iii) reduced overhead. Empirical results evidenced no overhead on non-regulated workloads, and negligible overhead (<1%) for regulated workloads for regulation periods of 2 µs or higher.

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Afonso Oliveira, Diogo Costa, Gonçalo Moreira, José Martins, and Sandro Pinto. H-MBR: Hypervisor-Level Memory Bandwidth Reservation for Mixed Criticality Systems. In Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 128, pp. 4:1-4:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{oliveira_et_al:OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.4,
  author =	{Oliveira, Afonso and Costa, Diogo and Moreira, Gon\c{c}alo and Martins, Jos\'{e} and Pinto, Sandro},
  title =	{{H-MBR: Hypervisor-Level Memory Bandwidth Reservation for Mixed Criticality Systems}},
  booktitle =	{Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:15},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-366-9},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{128},
  editor =	{Yomsi, Patrick Meumeu and Wildermann, Stefan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229905},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Virtualization, Multi-core Interference, Mixed-Criticality Systems, Arm, Memory Bandwidth Reservation}
}
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Towards a Universal and Interoperable Scientific Data Model

Authors: João Oliveira, Diogo Gomes, Francisca Santana, Jorge Oliveira e Sá, and Filipe Portela

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 113, 12th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2023)


Abstract
The growing number of researchers in Portugal has intensified the appearance of several scientific platforms that allow the indexation of publications and the management of scientific profiles. The diversity and high number of platforms brings problems at the level of crossover and integrity of the information, i.e., the researchers’ profiles are rarely updated, and their data are not properly grouped and cross-referenced. Hence, the need arises for a more global platform that enables the synchronization of information, free from constraints imposed by existing data.The study and work carried out aims to solve this problem by creating a robust and interoperable platform based on an innovative library merge algorithm. Thus, this platform includes information regarding publications, researchers and scientific indicators, by crossing and grouping data from several platforms.

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João Oliveira, Diogo Gomes, Francisca Santana, Jorge Oliveira e Sá, and Filipe Portela. Towards a Universal and Interoperable Scientific Data Model. In 12th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 113, pp. 14:1-14:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{oliveira_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2023.14,
  author =	{Oliveira, Jo\~{a}o and Gomes, Diogo and Santana, Francisca and S\'{a}, Jorge Oliveira e and Portela, Filipe},
  title =	{{Towards a Universal and Interoperable Scientific Data Model}},
  booktitle =	{12th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2023)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:16},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-291-4},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{113},
  editor =	{Sim\~{o}es, Alberto and Ber\'{o}n, Mario Marcelo and Portela, Filipe},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2023.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-185280},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2023.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: RDProfile, Researchers, Scientific Platforms, Scientific Data}
}
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