Hierarchical Scheduling for Real-Time Containers in Mixed-Criticality Systems

Real-time containers are a promising solution to implement mixed-criticality systems. In this paper we propose a novel solution to implement real-time containers in Linux environments with real-time co-kernels and hierarchical scheduling. Preliminary experimental results are presented, confirming that the solution is able to keep the worst-case latency of a task running within a real-time container within acceptable limits, despite the presence of non-real time load on the same machine.