Thermal Extension of the Total Bandwidth Server

Abstract

A typical real-time application is composed of periodic tasks with hard deadline constraints. It must also service a periodic tasks that are generated in response to external and internal events. In addition to application's timing constraints, it is important that the system never violates thermal constraint due to its increasingly adverse impact on the processing platform. In this work, we propose a scheme for servicing a periodic tasks in thermally constrained hard real-time systems. We propose an algorithm, T2BS, which is a thermal extension of the Total Bandwidth Server [1]. We show that our algorithm is optimal in the sense that it meets periodic task timing constraints as well as system thermal constraints, and it supports the maximum rate of a periodic arrivals. Through extensive simulations we demonstrate the validity of theoretical results and perform the response time analysis of a periodic tasks.