Deterministic implementation of periodic-delayed communications and experimentation in AADL

Abstract

The design of hard real-time embedded systems has to comply with strong requirements with respect to time determinism and resource consumption. However, interacting tasks may induce pessimism in schedulability analysis or introduce significant overheads in memory usage. In this paper, we restrict the execution and communication models to enforce an efficient and predictable implementation. To ensure determinism, a message sent by an emitting task is delivered at its deadline. We take advantage of a wait-free specialized message queues to provide predictable and efficient implementation. The integration of such mechanisms is assisted by a model driven engineering framework¹.