The hard real-time systems are characterized by sets of tasks for which are known the deadline, the arrival model (frequency) and the Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET). We focus on the scheduling of these systems on multiprocessor platforms. One of the main issues of this topic is to ensure that all deadlines are met. We go further by focusing on the temporal safety which we characterized by the properties of (i) robustness and (ii) sustainability. The robustness consists in providing an interval on the increases of (i-a) WCET and (i-b) frequency in such a way that the deadlines are met. The sustainability consists in ensuring that no deadline is missed when the following constraints are relaxed : (ii-a) WCET (decreasing), (ii-b) frequency (decreasing) and (ii-c) deadline (increasing). The robustness amounts to tolerate unexpected behaviors while the sustainability is the guarantee that the scheduling algorithm does not suffer from anomalies because of a relaxation of constraints. We consider fixed-priority scheduling for which any job of a task is scheduled with the same priority. Firstly, we study the property of robustness in off-line scheduling approaches without migration (partitioning). We deal with the case of tasks with or without shared resources. Secondly, we study the property of sustainability of an online restricted-migration scheduling approach without shared resources
Temporal safety for real-time multiprocessor systems