Reliability Aware Energy Optimized Scheduling of Non-Preemptive Periodic Real-Time Tasks on Heterogeneous Multiprocessor System

Higher reliability and lower energy consumption are conflicting, yet among the most important design objectives for the real-time systems. Moreover, in the domain of real-time systems, non-preemptive scheduling is relatively unexplored with objectives such as reliability and energy. Thus we propose an active replication based framework to schedule a set of periodic real-time tasks in the non-preemptive heterogeneous environment such that the given reliability and timing constraints are satisfied whereas the energy consumption is minimized. First, we formulate the problem as a constraint optimization problem that provides an optimal solution; however, it does not scale well. Thus, we also propose heuristics which apply reservation of processors and reallocation of jobs, to compute suboptimal solution efficiently in terms of energy consumption as well as schedulability. Heuristics make use of the interplay of task-level reliability target, reliability of replicas, number of replicas, reliability of tasks, and energy consumption. We perform an experimental study on the test cases generated by extending UUnisort algorithm [1] and observe the effect of various simulation parameters on energy consumption and schedulability.