In energy-aware real-time systems, there are techniques to optimize the energy consumption through turning off idle processors, Dynamic Power Management (DPM) is an example of such techniques. In this paper we propose a transformation technique of graph task model into the multi-thread segment task minimizing the number of processors needed to schedule the tasks. This reduces the energy consumption of the system when DPM like technique is used. The Directed Acyclic Graph task is presented as a directed graph of subtasks under precedence constraints, while the other task is called the multi-threaded segment model, in which a task is a sequence of segments, and each segment has a number of threads and an intermediate deadline. The graph model is more general than the segment model, but it is more complicated to schedule and analyze, because in the segment model, the threads of each segment are scheduled as independent sequential tasks on multiprocessor platform. Due to the dependencies between the subtasks of a graph, it could have a number of possible segment combinations. In this paper, we propose a graph-to- segment transformation technique, which generates a multi- thread segment task with minimum number of processors required to execute on multiprocessor platform.

Conference Title

Workshop on Power, Energy, and Temperature Aware Real-time Systems in Conjuction with RTSS'12, 2012

Conference Country

Puerto Rico

Conference Date

Dec. 12, 2012 - Dec. 16, 2012

Conference Sponsor

IEEE

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