Move-to-rear list scheduling: a new scheduling algorithm for providing QoS guarantees

In order to support multiple real time applications on a sin gle platform the operating system must provide Quality of Service QoS guarantees so that the system resources can be provisioned among applications to achieve desired levels of predictable performance The traditional QoS pa rameters include fairness delay and throughput In this paper we introduce a new QoS criterion called cumulative service The cumulative service criterion relates the total service obtained by a process under a scheduling policy to the ideal service that the process would have accumulated by executing on each resource at a reserved rate We say that a scheuling policy provides a cumulative service guar antee if the performance of the real system di ers from the ideal system by at most a constant amount A cumulative service guarantee is vital for applications e g a continous media le service that require multiple resources and de mand predictable aggregated throughput over all these re sources Existing scheduling algorithms that guarantee tra ditional QoS paramaters do not provide cumulative service guarantees We present a new scheduling algorithm called Move To Rear List Scheduling which provides a cumulative service guarantee as well as the traditional guarantees such as fairness proportional sharing and bounded delay The complexity of MTR LS is O ln n where n is the number