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Schedulability-Driven Communication Synthesis for Time Triggered Embedded Systems

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We present an approach to static priority preemptive process scheduling for the synthesis of hard real-time distributed embedded systems where communication plays an important role. The communication model is based on a time-triggered protocol. We have developed an analysis for the communication delays with four different message scheduling policies over a time-triggered communication channel. Optimization strategies for the synthesis of communication are developed, and the four approaches to message scheduling are compared using extensive experiments.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden

    Paul Pop, Petru Eles & Zebo Peng

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Pop, P., Eles, P. & Peng, Z. Schedulability-Driven Communication Synthesis for Time Triggered Embedded Systems. Real-Time Systems 26, 297–325 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:TIME.0000018246.09796.a3

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