TA-MCF: Thermal-Aware Fluid Scheduling for Mixed-Criticality System

Abstract

Fluid scheduling allows tasks to be allocated with fractional processing capacity, which significantly improves the schedulability performance. For dual-criticality systems (DCS), dual-rate fluid-based scheduling has been widely studied, e.g., the state-of-the-art approaches mixed-criticality fluid scheduling (MCF) and MC-Sort. However, most of the existing works on DCS either only focus on the schedulability analysis or minimize the energy consumption treating leakage power as a constant. To this end, this paper considers the effect of temperature on leakage power and proposes a thermal and power aware fluid scheduling strategy, referred to as thermal and energy aware (TA)-MCF which minimizes both the energy consumption and temperature, while ensuring a comparable schedulability ratio compared with the MCF and MC-Sort. Extensive experiments validate the efficiency of TA-MCF.