Task- and network-level schedule co-synthesis of Ethernet-based time-triggered systems. Zhang, L., Goswami, D., Schneider, R., & Chakraborty, S. In 2014 19th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), pages 119–124, January, 2014. ISSN: 2153-6961, 2153-697X
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In this paper, we study time-triggered distributed systems where periodic application tasks are mapped onto different end stations (processing units) communicating over a switched Ethernet network. We address the problem of application level (i.e., both task- and network-level) schedule synthesis and optimization. In this context, most of the recent works [10], [11] either focus on communication schedule or consider a simplified task model. In this work, we formulate the co-synthesis problem of task and communication schedules as a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model taking into account a number of Ethernet-specific timing parameters such as interframe gap, precision and synchronization error. Our formulation is able to handle one or multiple timing objectives such as application response time, end-to-end delay and their combinations. We show the applicability of our formulation considering an industrial size case study using a number of different sets of objectives. Further, we show that our formulation scales to systems with reasonably large size.
@inproceedings{zhang_task-_2014,
	title = {Task- and network-level schedule co-synthesis of {Ethernet}-based time-triggered systems},
	doi = {10.1109/ASPDAC.2014.6742876},
	abstract = {In this paper, we study time-triggered distributed systems where periodic application tasks are mapped onto different end stations (processing units) communicating over a switched Ethernet network. We address the problem of application level (i.e., both task- and network-level) schedule synthesis and optimization. In this context, most of the recent works [10], [11] either focus on communication schedule or consider a simplified task model. In this work, we formulate the co-synthesis problem of task and communication schedules as a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model taking into account a number of Ethernet-specific timing parameters such as interframe gap, precision and synchronization error. Our formulation is able to handle one or multiple timing objectives such as application response time, end-to-end delay and their combinations. We show the applicability of our formulation considering an industrial size case study using a number of different sets of objectives. Further, we show that our formulation scales to systems with reasonably large size.},
	booktitle = {2014 19th {Asia} and {South} {Pacific} {Design} {Automation} {Conference} ({ASP}-{DAC})},
	author = {Zhang, Licong and Goswami, Dip and Schneider, Reinhard and Chakraborty, Samarjit},
	month = jan,
	year = {2014},
	note = {ISSN: 2153-6961, 2153-697X},
	keywords = {MIP, Optimization, Schedules, Switches, Synchronization, Time factors, Topology, integer programming, local area networks, mixed integer programming, network-level schedule co-synthesis, switched Ethernet network, switched networks, task-level schedule co-synthesis, time-triggered distributed systems},
	pages = {119--124}
}

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