Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for determining earliest deadline first schedulability of non-preemptive uni-processor system
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Application No.: US15598055Application Date: 2017-05-17
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Publication No.: US10296382B2Publication Date: 2019-05-21
- Inventor: Saleh Alrashed , Jamal Alhiyafi , Aamir Shafi , Nasro Min Allah
- Applicant: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
- Applicant Address: SA Dammam
- Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
- Current Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
- Current Assignee Address: SA Dammam
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06F9/46
- IPC: G06F9/46 ; G06F9/48

Abstract:
Earliest deadline first (EDF) scheduling algorithm is the most celebrated result for dynamic priority scheduling in real-time systems for both preemptive and non-preemptive cases. From complexity point of view, EDF is polynomial for preemptive scheduling of tasks. However, it becomes pseudo-polynomial under non-preemptive case. Described herein is a technique that determines EDF feasibility of non-preemptive task set by analyzing schedulability of the lowest priority task at common scheduling points generated by all higher priority tasks in the task set. The adjustment results in improving the computational cost of an existing test from O(n2 pn/p1) to O(pn/p1), where n is the number of tasks in the system, while pn and p1 represent the task periods of largest and smallest periodic tasks respectively. With reduced computation cost, the described method of analyzing feasibility can be intergraded with online systems for testing feasibility of a special class of real-time systems under non-preemptive case.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180336064A1 METHOD FOR DETERMINING EARLIEST DEADLINE FIRST SCHEDULABILITY OF NON-PREEMPTIVE UNI-PROCESSOR SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-11-22
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