Flexible Soft Real-Time Processing in Middleware

As desktop computer computational power continues to increases dramatically, it is becoming commonplace to run a combination of deadline-sensitive applications. Despite the proliferation of computational power, the detailed nature of these applications causes new problems for the system resource allocation mechanisms. First, these applications are designed to meet their deadlines as long as nearly all the system's resources are available to them; once the system approaches saturation, the collective applications will fail to meet their deadlines. To aggravate the situation, conventional best effort managers will allocate resources to the competing applications based on a static form of equitability rather than addressing the dynamic relative benefit provided by each application. Second, the applications differ from conventional real-time applications: though members of this new class of desktop applications are sensitive to deadlines, their constraints are non-critical. They are ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: RTS
• Authors: Scott A. Brandt, Gary J. Nutt
• Keywords: Computational Power, Conventional Real-time Applications, Resource, RTS 2002