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ARINC 653 provides a strong isolation mechanism for safety computing fields, such as aircrafts. seL4, a 3rd generation microkernel, was formally verified for its functional correctness and provides a desirable code base for partitioning operating systems. But there is a long way from seL4 to partitioning. We take the first step and focus on the temporal aspect, i.e., implementing a partitioned scheduler...
As cloud becomes a cost effective computing platform, improving its utilization becomes a critical issue. Determining an incoming application's sensitivity toward various resources is one of the major challenges to obtain higher utilization. To this end, previous research attempts to characterize an incoming application's sensitivity toward interference on various resources (Source of Interference...
The use of real-time operating systems for small micro controllers creates two major problems. The former refers to the way interruptions must be handled so that deadlines can be complied with. The latter regards the fact that there may be tasks that will not synchronize with events generated by multiple objects such as semaphores, mutexes, messages or interrupts. The present article discusses several...
Scheduling theory and algorithms have been well studied in the real-time systems literature. Many useful approaches and solutions have appeared in different problem domains. While their theoretical effectiveness has been extensively discussed, the community is now facing implementation challenges that show the impact of the algorithms in practice. In this paper, we propose a scheduler framework, called...
Server consolidation using virtual machines (VMs) makes it difficult to execute processes as the administrators intend. A process scheduler in each VM is not aware of the other VM and schedules only processes in one VM independently. To solve this problem, process scheduling across VMs is necessary. However, such system-wide scheduling is vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks from a compromised...
The recent emergence of clouds with large, virtualized pools of compute and storage resources raises the possibility of a new compute paradigm for scientific research. With virtualization technologies, consolidation of scientific workflows presents a promising opportunity for energy and resource cost optimization, while achieving high performance. We have developed pSciMapper, a power-aware consolidation...
This paper discuss the tradeoffs in implementation of Data Acquisition software developed for an embedded system for monitoring and controlling temperature and humidity running on real time Linux operating system. Real world physical parameters such as temperature and humidity are beyond the control of software processes running in the computer and are independent real world incidents are not governed...
Hierarchical scheduling frameworks (HSFs) provide means for composing complex real-time systems from well-defined, independently analyzed subsystems. To support resource sharing within two-level HSFs, three synchronization protocols based on the stack resource policy (SRP) have recently been presented, i.e. HSRP, SIRAP and BROE. This paper describes the first implementation presenting these three...
In this work we examine how transparent compression in the I/O path can improve space efficiency for online storage. We extend the block layer with the ability to compress and decompress data as they flow between the file-system and the disk. Achieving transparent compression requires extensive metadata management for dealing with variable block sizes, dynamic block mapping, block allocation, explicit...
Fair-share scheduling attempts to grant access to a resource based on the amount of ??share?? that a task possesses. It is widely used in places such as Internet routing, and recently, in the Linux kernel. Software performance engineering is concerned with creating responsive applications and often uses modeling to predict the behaviour of a system before the system is built. This work extends the...
In this paper, we present a method for providing quality of service using bandwidth limitation. In practical demonstration of the idea, we have used an algorithm for packet queuing, a technique applicable in a setup where the systems are connected to the Internet through a server and the server receives and distributes all the packets requested from the all the users in the network. The idea basically...
The emergence of functional embedded systems such as cell-phones and digital appliances brought up a new issue, building a system supporting both real-time and rich services. One of the solutions is leveraging a hypervisor to integrate an RTOS and a commodity OS into a single device. However, this approach induces the limitation of application deployment; all the high priority tasks should reside...
According to the growing of Internet, many websites have used clustering technologies to enlarge their performance. These days, LVS (Linux Virtual Server) software, which is free of charge and has good performance, has commonly been used to construct web server cluster. But when requests are increased, LVS can raise a bottleneck and can make the cluster system unable after all, because it has only...
Today, call control servers use COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) components such as Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) and Carrier Grade Linux. However, the adoption of COTS components causes an increase in the maximum response time of high-priority write system call during synchronous state transitions and recording whenever IO operation is congested by normal-priority IO requests. Call...
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