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T. Cucinotta, F. Checconi, L. Abeni, L. Palopoli, "Adaptive Real-Time Scheduling for Legacy Multimedia Applications," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM TECS), Special Section on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia, Vol.11, No.4, December 2012.

Abstract

Multimedia applications are often executed on standard Personal Computers. The absence of established standards has hindered the adoption of real-time scheduling solutions in this class of applications. Developers have adopted a wide range of heuristic approaches to achieve an acceptable timing behaviour but the result is often unreliable. We propose a mechanism to extend the benefits of real-time scheduling to legacy applications based on the combination of two techniques: 1) a real-time monitor that observes and infers the activation period of the application, and 2) a feedback mechanism that adapts the scheduling parameters to improve its real-time performance.

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DOI: 10.1145/2362336.2362353

BibTeX entry:

@article{Cucinotta2012,
	doi = {10.1145/2362336.2362353},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145%2F2362336.2362353},
	year = 2012,
	month = dec,
	publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery ({ACM})},
	volume = {11},
	number = {4},
	pages = {1--23},
	author = {Tommaso Cucinotta and Fabio Checconi and Luca Abeni and Luigi Palopoli},
	title = {Adaptive real-time scheduling for legacy multimedia applications},
	journal = {{ACM} Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems}
}

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