Effects of resource saturation in real-time computing on data flow architectures

Author

Som, S. ; Miekle, R.R. ; Stoughton, J.W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

4-6 Nov 1991

Firstpage

39

Abstract

The authors discuss resource saturation in dataflow architectures operating in real time. Resource saturation is created by excessive concurrency in the computational problem and can make real-time system performance unpredictable. A computational model for dataflow architectures, called ATAMM, is described and used for achieving the best possible time performance for a given number of resources while retaining predictability and periodic steady state operation. Concurrency control measures are developed. Simulation results are presented to validate the ATAMM model and to illustrate that an uncontrolled execution of a dataflow graph can easily lead to unpredictable and degraded performance

Keywords

concurrency control; parallel architectures; real-time systems; resource allocation; ATAMM model; concurrency control; data flow architectures; excessive concurrency; periodic steady state operation; real-time computing; resource saturation; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Concurrency control; Concurrent computing; Data flow computing; Degradation; Predictive models; Real time systems; Steady-state; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 1991. 1991 Conference Record of the Twenty-Fifth Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2470-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.1991.186410

Filename

186410