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Performance Property Theories for Predictable Assembly from Certifiable Components (PACC)

September 2004 Technical Report
Scott Hissam, Mark H. Klein, Paulo Merson, Gabriel Moreno, Kurt C. Wallnau, J. Lehoczky

This report develops a queueing-theoretic solution to predict, for a real-time system, the average-case latency of aperiodic tasks managed by a sporadic server.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-2004-TR-017

DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
10.1184/R1/6581996.v1

Abstract

This report develops a queueing-theoretic solution to predict, for a real-time system, the average-case latency of aperiodic tasks managed by a sporadic server. The report applies this theory to a model problem drawn in the domain of industrial robot control. In this model problem, a controller with hard periodic deadlines is "open" to third-party plug-in extensions. The sporadic server is used to limit the invasiveness of aperiodic tasks on the controller's hard deadlines. The theory developed in this report is used to predict the average-case latency of a plug-in managed by a sporadic server.