Real-time mixed-criticality Network-on-Chip resource allocation

Abstract

This paper summarises the latest developments on the resource allocation of real-time and mixed-criticality applications onto multiprocessor platforms based on Networks-on-Chip. The paper focuses on priority-preemptive Networks-on-Chip, and on the use of analytical models as fitness functions to guide search-based heuristics towards fully schedulable allocations, therefore suitable for mixed criticality applications with hard real-time constraints.