Q-CSF: Quantum-Aware Compositional Scheduling Framework for Hierarchical Real-Time Systems

Component-based design has received considerable attention owing to its advantages in terms of security and safety when developing modern embedded systems. To effectively allocate computing resources to components in these systems, real-time component-based scheduling theory has been studied from various perspectives. The main advantage of component-based scheduling theory is that it guarantees the schedulability of an independent component and composability of multiple components. However, the existing component scheduling theory cannot be directly applied to real hardware platform due to an impractical assumption that resource allocation must be conducted across the continuum of real numbers, whereas actual operating systems (or virtualization systems) allocate resources in units of scheduling time quantum. In this study, we proposed a new efficient resource allocation and supply mechanism for quantumized hardware platforms while using real-number-based component interface. In simulation results with randomly-generated workloads, our approach reduced the overhead of existing approaches by up to 97.1% in an individual component. In composition of multiple components, our approach has up to 0.41 better acceptance ratio than existing approaches.

Automated summary

This study introduces a new component-based scheduling theory for effectively allocating computing resources to components in embedded systems. It was found that the approach can reduce overhead while improving the acceptance ratio in compositions of multiple components.