Application of Real-Time Scheduling Techniques to Agent-Based Distributed Production Systems

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HEINZ NIXDORF INSTITUTWG Prof. Dr. F.J. RammigM.Sc. Dania A. El-Kebbe

Application of Real-Time Scheduling Techniques to Agent-Based Distributed Production Systems

04.11.2002

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Goals

• Novel application area of RT Systems

• Put the RT scheduling theory into Production Control System practical applications

• Allow predictable aperiodic scheduling in the presence of periodic tasks in a production stage and shift of a PCS

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Overview

• Main focuses

• Taxonomy of multiprocessor platforms

• Parallel uniform platforms: Why?

• Comparative study of relevant RT Multiprocessor Scheduling Algorithms

• Resource augmentation technique

• System characteristics

• TBS on uniform multiprocessors

• Schedulability analysis

• Example

• Performance evaluation

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Main focuses

• structure and present a methodology of a manufacturing system under RT-Contraints

• thorougly examine and compare the literature of real-time scheduling theory and its application to Production Control Systems

• Present a firm real-time scheduling technique of a distributed production control system

• to develop predictable computational methods for studying the aperiodic scheduling problem in uni- and multiprocessor manufacturing systems under real-time constraints.

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Workload considerations in a traditional PCS

Raw material ProductParts Parts Parts AssemblyGalvanicMachiningBroaching

Parallel uniform machines




Pre-planned production of parts realized by traditional production planning and control systems

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Raw material ProductParts Parts Parts AssemblyGalvanicMachiningBroaching





Periodic and aperiodic production of parts in a production system underlying real-time constraints

Workload considerations in a RT- PCS

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• Parallel identical machines: Same task production time for all machines

• Parallel uniform machines: Machines differ in their production time, but production time does not depend from the type of the task

• Parallel unrelated machines: The production time of the machine depends from the type of the task.

Taxonomy of multiprocessor platforms

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• give production system designers the possibility to use machines with different production speeds

• Need for machines with lower production capacity to execute non-real-time or aperiodic tasks

• Need for upgrade of some machines

Parallel uniform platforms: Why?

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Comparative study of relevant RT Multiprocessor Scheduling Algorithms

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• Philipps et al. (1997)

Preemptive identical multiprocessor setting. Several on-line algorithms that prove poor performance from an absolute worst-case perspective, are optimal when allowed moderately more resources.

• Funk et al. (2001) extended this method to be applied upon uniform parallel machines. However, their results apply only to periodic tasks!

Resource Augmentation technique

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System characteristics

• = {s1, s2, s3, ..., sm} / m * and sj sj+1 for all j, 1 j< m:m-machine uniform multiprocessor platform with speeds or production capacities s1, s2, s3, ..., smrespectively.• = {i,j / i,j *} A set of periodic tasks with hard deadlines• J = {Ji,j / i,j *} A set of hard aperiodic tasks ordered by increasing deadlines• Each job is characterized by: arrival time ri , production time ci, deadline di, period pi. • ui = ci / pi is the utilization of a task. The tasks in and J are indexed according to a decreasing utilization

•Job preemption is permitted. O = {Oj,m / i *} changeover time caused by the arrival of part from type j at the machine m.

• Job parallelism is forbidden.

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• Advantages on uniprocessor platforms: good performance low memory capacity low implementation complexity better maintainability low computational complexity less changeover time overheads

• Rules: 1. No machine is idled while there is an active job awaiting execution 2. When fewer than m jobs are active, they are executed upon the fastest machines while the slowest are idled 3. Higher priority jobs are executed on faster processors 4. When the jth aperiodic request arrives at time t=rj Cj + 2Oj,m dj = rj + Us

TBS on uniform multiprocessors

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Definition: (Funk et al.)

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sk

k=j+1 = max ______

Sj

• measures the „degree“ by which differs from an identical multiprocessor platform. • Speed of processors differ from each other becomes smaller.


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Lemma 1. (Funk et al.)

If the following condition is satisfied

S‘m ‘. s1 + Sm

then for any set of jobs I and at any time-instant t 0

W(A‘, ‘,I,t) W(A, ,I,t)

• Condition expresses the additional production capacity needed by ‘ in terms of the parameter ‘ and the speed of the fastest processor in • the smaller the value of ‘, the more ‘ deviates from being an identical multiprocessor, the smaller the amount of this excessing processing power needed.


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Theorem 1.

If the condition of Lemma 1 is satisfied

S‘m ‘. s1 + Sm

then I will meet all deadlines when scheduled using TBS algorithm executing on ‘.


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Schedulability Analysis

Theorem 2

Given a set of n periodic tasks with machine utilization Up and a TBS with machine utilization Us, the whole set is feasibly scheduled upon a multiprocessor platform if and only if

Up + Us Sm

where

Up = Up1 + Up2 + ... + Upm

Theorem 3 (Funk et al)

A periodic task system will meet all deadlines when scheduled on ‘

S‘m ‘ * max{u1,Up/m} + Up

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Schedulability Analysis

Theorem 4...

S‘m = ‘‘* u1+ Up+ Us

The aperiodic task system J has a utilization

Us = S‘m - ‘‘* u1 - Up

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Example

• Consider a task system comprised of five periodic tasks (ci,pi)

= { (15,10) , (4,5) , (14,20) , (6,15) , (2,10) }

and an aperiodic task (ri,ci)

J = { (5,3) }

to be TBS scheduled upon the uniform multiprocessor platform‘ = [3,1,0.5]. Will all deadlines be met?

• By definition ‘= max {(1+0.5)/3, 0.5/1} = 0.5• By (Funk et al.) is feasible on some 3-processor multiprocessor platform having a total computing capacity 1,5+0,8+0,7+0,4+0,2=3,6and with the fastest processor having a computing capacity s1=u1=1,5• By Theorem 4, we obtain Us=0,15• dj=max{5,0}+(3/0.15)=35

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Performance Evaluation

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Performance evaluation of aperiodic tasks scheduled with TBS upon a uniform multiprocessor platform

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