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Exploiting Dynamic Workload Variation in Low Energy Preemptive Task Scheduling

Other Computer Science 2011-11-09 v1

Abstract

A novel energy reduction strategy to maximally exploit the dynamic workload variation is proposed for the offline voltage scheduling of preemptive systems. The idea is to construct a fully-preemptive schedule that leads to minimum energy consumption when the tasks take on approximately the average execution cycles yet still guarantees no deadline violation during the worst-case scenario. End-time for each sub-instance of the tasks obtained from the schedule is used for the on-line dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) of the tasks. For the tasks that normally require a small number of cycles but occasionally a large number of cycles to complete, such a schedule provides more opportunities for slack utilization and hence results in larger energy saving. The concept is realized by formulating the problem as a Non-Linear Programming (NLP) optimization problem. Experimental results show that, by using the proposed scheme, the total energy consumption at runtime is reduced by as high as 60% for randomly generated task sets when comparing with the static scheduling approach only using worst case workload.

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@article{arxiv.0710.4758,
  title  = {Exploiting Dynamic Workload Variation in Low Energy Preemptive Task Scheduling},
  author = {Lap-Fai Leung and Chi-Ying Tsui and Xiaobo Sharon Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.4758},
  year   = {2011}
}

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