A Workload Model Based Approach to Evaluate the Robustness of Real-time Operating System

Author

Zhengmao Zhou ; Yun Zhou ; Ming Cai ; Lei Sun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2013

fDate

13-15 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

2027

Lastpage

2033

Abstract

An important step in the development of real-time operating system (RTOS) is the validation of its fault tolerance properties. Many efforts have been made to improve the robustness of RTOS. However, most of the robustness tests are not complete as the influence of workload on these tests is ignored. In this paper, faults are injected through a set of public application program interfaces (APIs) which are based on the basic components of RTOS. A comprehensive evaluation system which combines the general RTOS API robustness with the complex workloads is proposed and three popular RTOSs (Ucos2.62, Vxwork5.4 and Rtems4.10) have been evaluated with two workloads by this evaluation system. We find Rtems shows the best performance while Vxworks performs the worst.

Keywords

application program interfaces; fault tolerant computing; operating systems (computers); real-time systems; RTOS API robustness tests; Rtems; Vxworks; fault tolerance properties; public application program interfaces; real-time operating system; Computer crashes; Control systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Robustness; Software; Telemetry; RTOS; faults injection; robustness; workload;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing and Communications & 2013 IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (HPCC_EUC), 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zhangjiajie

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPCC.and.EUC.2013.292

Filename

6832175