{"title":"A constraint-based approach for specification and verification of real-time systems","authors":"G. Gupta, Enrico Pontelli","doi":"10.1109/REAL.1997.641285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REAL.1997.641285","url":null,"abstract":"We develop a general constraint logic programming (CLP) based framework for specification and verification of real time systems. Our framework is based on the notion of timed automata that have traditionally been used for specifying real time systems. In our framework, a user models the ordering of real time events as the grammar of a language accepted by a timed automata, the real time constraints on these events are then captured as denotations of the grammar productions specified by the user. The grammar can be specified as a Definite Clause Grammar (DCG), while the denotations can be specified in constraint logic. The resulting specification can hence be regarded as a constraint logic program (CLP), and is executable. Many interesting properties of the real time system can be verified by posing appropriate queries to this CLP program. A major advantage of our approach is that it is constructive in nature, i.e., it can be used for computing the conditions under which a property will hold for a given real time system. Our framework also suggests new types of formalisms that we call constraint automata and timed push down automata.","PeriodicalId":231201,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Real-Time Systems Symposium","volume":"58 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114002889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrated delay analysis of regulated ATM switch","authors":"J. Ng, Shibin Song, Wei Zhao","doi":"10.1109/REAL.1997.641290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REAL.1997.641290","url":null,"abstract":"We present an efficient and effective method to derive the worst case delay in an ATM switch. In an ATM switch, admitting a hard real-time connection requires the delays of cells belonging to the connection meeting their deadline without violating the guarantees already provided to connections that are currently active. Previous studies have shown that the real-time connection traffic and the available service can both be described by piecewise linear functions in terms of time. By utilizing the inverse of the arrival and service functions, we obtain an efficient and effective method to complete the worst case delay of a connection to an ATM switch. We analyze and compare the performance of an ATM switch with priority driven and FIFO scheduling policies under different utilization. We also compare the performance using our proposed integrated method with the traditional independent method. From simulation experiments, we found that our method always obtains a higher admission probability and a better estimation of cell delay within an ATM switch.","PeriodicalId":231201,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Real-Time Systems Symposium","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133439394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A low-cost processor group membership protocol for a hard real-time distributed system","authors":"Matthew Clegg, K. Marzullo","doi":"10.1109/REAL.1997.641272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REAL.1997.641272","url":null,"abstract":"Processor group membership protocols implement a service that allow processors to agree on which processors are operational. Implementations of group membership for hard real-time systems have concentrated on either reducing failure detection latency or minimizing message complexity. Instead, we present a protocol that uses shared resources-processor time and network bandwidth-as a small, bounded tax imposed on existing broadcast message traffic. In doing so, the group membership protocol can easily be taken into account by any schedulability analysis.","PeriodicalId":231201,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Real-Time Systems Symposium","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115568235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early detection of timing constraint violation at runtime","authors":"A. Mok, Guangtian Liu","doi":"10.1109/REAL.1997.641280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REAL.1997.641280","url":null,"abstract":"As real time applications become more complex and distributed, monitoring for timing constraint compliance becomes more important in facilitating the enforcement of conditional guarantees and for recovery purposes. C.E. Chodrow et al. (1991) described a O(n/sup 3/) satisfiability checking algorithm for timing constraint monitoring at each check point, where n is the number of time terms in the timing constraint specification. We show that a timing violation can be caught as early as possible by deriving and monitoring a minimum set of timing constraints from the timing constraint specification. We show that only O(n) time is needed in the worst case for checking at each check point. An implementation based on the results reported herein appears in a companion paper (A.K. Mok and G. Liu, 1997).","PeriodicalId":231201,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Real-Time Systems Symposium","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116189335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Formal development of a real-time kernel","authors":"S. Fowler, A. Wellings","doi":"10.1109/REAL.1997.641284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REAL.1997.641284","url":null,"abstract":"The formal development of a simple real time operating system kernel is described. The kernel provides a set of operations that allows a restricted Ada 95 tasking model to be supported, suitable for fixed priority real time systems. The requirements for the kernel are expressed in terms of the computational model using RTL, and the abstract specification of the kernel is validated against this. The development of an implementation from this specification is then described, with the PVS proof system used to verify each step in the development process.","PeriodicalId":231201,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Real-Time Systems Symposium","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123857288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel approach to multiprogrammed multiprocessor synchronization for real-time kernels","authors":"H. Takada, K. Sakamura","doi":"10.1109/REAL.1997.641276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REAL.1997.641276","url":null,"abstract":"In order to solve the problem of inopportune preemption in multiprogrammed multiprocessor synchronization, two strategies which are applicable to real-time systems have been investigated: preemption-safe locking and wait-free synchronization. Both of them, however, have a problem for use in the implementation of a real-time kernel. Preemption-safe locking has the drawback that the preemption cost becomes large; while wait-free operations on complex data structures are generally very inefficient and are not practical. We propose a novel approach to multiprogrammed multiprocessor synchronization, called the SPEPP (Spinning Processor Executes for Preempted Processors) synchronization, with which the preemption cost can be reduced to almost zero, while operations on complex data structures can be realized with reasonable efficiency. This paper presents the two algorithms of the SPEPP synchronization and their extensions, and demonstrates its effectiveness through the performance measurements of real-time kernels implemented with the SPEPP synchronization algorithms.","PeriodicalId":231201,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Real-Time Systems Symposium","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122317765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-time filesystems. Guaranteeing timing constraints for disk accesses in RT-Mach","authors":"A. Molano, K. Juvva, R. Rajkumar","doi":"10.1109/REAL.1997.641278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REAL.1997.641278","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional real-time systems have largely avoided the use of disks due to their relative slow speeds and their unpredictability. However, many real-time applications including multimedia systems and real-time database applications benefit significantly from the use of disks to store and access real-time data. We investigate the problem of obtaining guaranteed timely access to files on a disk in a real-time system. Our study focuses on several aspects of this problem of providing a real-time filesystem. First, we consider the use of two real-time disk scheduling algorithms: earliest deadline scheduling and just-in-time scheduling, a variation of aperiodic servers for the disk. The latter algorithm is designed to improve disk throughput that can be hurt when a real-time scheduling algorithm such as EDF is applied directly. Admission control policies with practically acceptable properties of performance and usability are provided. Next, we design and implement a real-time filesystem on the RT-Mach microkernel-based system running a real-time shell. The new interface we develop is based on RT-Mach's resource reservation paradigm and provides guaranteed and timely access for multiple concurrent applications requiring disk bandwidth with different timing and volume requirements. Finally, we perform a detailed performance evaluation of the real-time filesystem including its raw performance. We show the following positive but rather surprising result: our real-time scheduling filesystem not only provides guaranteed and timely access but also does so at relatively high levels of throughput. Traditional disk scheduling algorithms offer completely unacceptable file access latencies for real-time applications and do so only at slightly higher throughput.","PeriodicalId":231201,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Real-Time Systems Symposium","volume":"171 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125664652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guidelines for automated implementation of executable object oriented models for real-time embedded control systems","authors":"M. Saksena, P. Freedman, P. Rodziewicz","doi":"10.1109/REAL.1997.641286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REAL.1997.641286","url":null,"abstract":"We present our experiences in applying real time scheduling theory to embedded control systems designed using ROOM (Real time Object Oriented Modeling) methodology. ROOM has originated from the telecommunications community and has been successfully applied to many commercial systems through the supporting case tool ObjecTime. It is particularly suitable for modeling reactive real time behavior. Furthermore, it provides many other advantages through the use of object orientation, and the use of executable models from which code may be generated quickly and efficiently. Since many real time embedded control systems have significant reactive, event driven behavior, it is attractive to use ROOM methodology to develop such systems. However, the ROOM methodology does not provide tools to specify and analyze the temporal behavior as is required for the hard real time components of embedded systems, and for which the real time scheduling theory provides an analytical basis. We show how real time scheduling theory may be applied to ROOM models using a cruise control example to illustrate. The biggest challenge comes from minimizing the adverse effects of priority inversions. Our results are very encouraging, and we show that not only is it possible to apply real time scheduling theory, but that it can be done very efficiently provided certain guidelines are followed in the design and implementation of the ROOM model.","PeriodicalId":231201,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Real-Time Systems Symposium","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115247197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Formal modeling and analysis of an audio/video protocol: an industrial case study using UPPAAL","authors":"K. Havelund, A. Skou, K. Larsen, Kristian Lund","doi":"10.1109/REAL.1997.641264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REAL.1997.641264","url":null,"abstract":"A formal and automatic verification of a real-life protocol is presented. The protocol, about 2800 lines of assembler code, has been used in products from the audio/video company Bang & Olufsen throughout more than a decade, and its purpose is to control the transmission of messages between audio/video components over a single bus. Such communications may collide, and one essential purpose of the protocol is to detect such collisions. The functioning is highly dependent on real-time considerations. Though the protocol was known to be faulty in that messages were lost occasionally, the protocol was too complicated in order for Bang & Olufsen to locate the bug using normal testing. However using the real-time verification tool UPPAAL, an error trace was automatically generated, which caused the detection of \"the error\" in the implementation. The error was corrected and the correction was automatically proven correct, again using UPPAAL. A future, and more automated, version of the protocol, where this error is fatal, will incorporate the correction. Hence, this work is an elegant demonstration of how model checking has had an impact on practical software development. The effort of modeling this protocol has in addition generated a number of suggestions for enriching the UPPAAL language. Hence, it's also an excellent example of the reverse impact.","PeriodicalId":231201,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Real-Time Systems Symposium","volume":"119 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120969608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chang-Gun Lee, Joosun Hahn, Yangmin Seo, S. Min, Rhan Ha, Seongsoo Hong, C. Park, Minsuk Lee, Chong-Sang Kim
{"title":"Enhanced analysis of cache-related preemption delay in fixed-priority preemptive scheduling","authors":"Chang-Gun Lee, Joosun Hahn, Yangmin Seo, S. Min, Rhan Ha, Seongsoo Hong, C. Park, Minsuk Lee, Chong-Sang Kim","doi":"10.1109/REAL.1997.641281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REAL.1997.641281","url":null,"abstract":"We propose an enhanced technique for analyzing, and thus bounding cache related preemption delay in fixed priority preemptive scheduling focusing on instruction caching. The proposed technique improves upon previous techniques in two important ways. First, the technique takes into account the relationship between a preempted task and the set of tasks that execute during the preemption when calculating the cache related preemption delay. Second, the technique considers phasing of tasks to eliminate many infeasible task interactions. These two features are expressed as constraints of a linear programming problem whose solution gives a guaranteed upper bound on the cache related preemption delay. The paper also compares the proposed technique with previous techniques. The results show that the proposed technique gives up to 60% tighter prediction of the worst case response time than the previous techniques.","PeriodicalId":231201,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Real-Time Systems Symposium","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114854578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}