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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2012.69
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-35589
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Baldovin, Andrea ; Mezzetti, Enrico ; Vardanega, Tullio

A Time-composable Operating System

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Abstract

Time composability is a guiding principle to the development and certification process of real-time embedded systems. Considerable efforts have been devoted to studying the role of hardware
architectures - and their modern accelerating features - in enabling the hierarchical composition of the timing behaviour of software programs considered in isolation. Much less attention has been devoted to the effect of real-time Operating Systems (OS) on time composability at the application level.
In fact, the very presence of the OS contributes to the variability of the execution time of the application directly and indirectly; by way of its own response time jitter and by its effect on the state retained by the processor hardware. We consider zero disturbance and steady behaviour as those characteristic properties that an operating system should exhibit, so as to be time-composable with the user applications. We assess those properties on the redesign of
an ARINC compliant partitioned operating system, for use in avionics applications, and present some experimental results from a preliminary implementation of our approach within the scope
of the EU FP7 PROARTIS project.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{baldovin_et_al:OASIcs:2012:3558,
  author =	{Andrea Baldovin and Enrico Mezzetti and Tullio Vardanega},
  title =	{{A Time-composable Operating System}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis},
  pages =	{69--80},
  series =	{OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-41-5},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2012},
  volume =	{23},
  editor =	{Tullio Vardanega},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2012/3558},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-35589},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2012.69},
  annote =	{Keywords: Real-time Operating System, Timing composability, ARINC}
}

Keywords: Real-time Operating System, Timing composability, ARINC
Collection: 12th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis
Issue Date: 2012
Date of publication: 10.07.2012

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