PROGRESS research projects

FIRST - Flexible Integrating Scheduling Technology - EU IST Project

Leader: Gerhard Fohler Members: Radu Dobrin, Larisa Rizvanovic, Damir Isovic Former: Gerhard Fohler, Tomas Lennvall Keywords: flexibility, predictability, scheduling Status: finished , start date: 2002 Partners: University of York , UK, Universidad de Cantabria Spain, Scuola Superiore S. Anna Pisa, Italy Funding: EU IST Web: Project web page Official university web page (in Swedish)

Overview The objective of the proposed research is to develop a real-time scheduling framework for applications demanding various types of tasks, constraints, and scheduling paradigms within the same system. The FIRST project will investigate the following issues: · co- operation and coexistence of standard real-time scheduling schemes, time- triggered and event-triggered, dynamic and fixed priority based, as well as off-line based. · integration of different task types such as hard and soft, or more flexible notions, e.g., from control or quality-of-service demands, and fault-tolerance mechanisms · temporal encapsulation of subsystems in order to support the composability and reusability of available components including legacy subsystems FIRST will provide functionality for the schemes for POSIX compliant operating systems, including monitoring and maintenance of control systems over the Internet.

Latest project publications [ Show all publications ] Combining Off-line Schedule Construction and Fixed Priority Scheduling in Real-Time Computer Systems, Radu Dobrin, Ph D Thesis, Mälardalen University, September, 2005 Adapting to Varying Demands in Resource Constrained Real-Time Devices, Tomas Lennvall (former), Ph D Thesis, Mälardalen University, September, 2005 FSF: A Real-Time Scheduling Architecture Framework, (external), Gerhard Fohler (former), Radu Dobrin, Tomas Lennvall (former), 12th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, San Jose, California, United States, April, 2005

Results achieved The first set of deliverables completed.