SET-MRTS: An empirical experiment tool for real-time scheduling and synchronization

Abstract

In the real-time scheduling theory, schedulability and synchronization analyses are used to evaluate scheduling algorithms and real-time locking protocols, respectively, and the empirical synthesis experiment is one of the major methods to compare the performance of such analyses. However, since many sophisticated techniques have been adopted to improve the analytical accuracy, the implementation of such analyses and experiments is often time-consuming. This paper proposes a schedulability experiment toolkit for multiprocessor real-time systems (SET-MRTS), which provides a framework with infrastructures to implement the schedulability and synchronization analyses and the deployment of empirical synthesis experiments. Besides, with well-designed peripheral components for the input and output, experiments can be conducted easily and flexibly on SET-MRTS. This demonstration further proves the effectiveness of SET-MRTS in both functionality and availability.