Reliability-aware low energy scheduling in real time systems with shared resources

Abstract Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) is a technique which is widely used to save energy in a real time system. Recent research shows that it has a negative impact on the system reliability. In this paper, we consider the problem of the system reliability and focus on a periodic task set that the task instance shares resources. Firstly, we present a static low power scheduling algorithm for periodic tasks with shared resources called SLPSR which ignores the system reliability. Secondly, we prove that the problem of the reliability-aware low power scheduling for periodic tasks with shared resources is NP-hard and present two heuristic algorithms called SPF and LPF respectively. Finally, we present a dynamic low power scheduling algorithm for periodic tasks with shared resources called DLPSR to reclaim the dynamic slack time to save energy while preserving the system reliability. Experimental results show that the presented algorithm can reduce the energy consumption while improving the system reliability.