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2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Communication Delays and Multiprocessor Tasks
Published in: Handbook on Scheduling
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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One of the assumptions imposed in Chapter 3 was that each task is processed on at most one processor at a time. However, in recent years, with the rapid development of manufacturing as well as microprocessor and especially multi-microprocessor systems, the above assumption has ceased to be justified in some important applications. There are, for example, self-testing multi-microprocessor systems in which one processor is used to test others, or diagnostic systems in which testing signals stimulate the tested elements and their corresponding outputs are simultaneously analyzed [Avi78, DD81]. When formulating scheduling problems in such systems, one must take into account the fact that some tasks have to be processed on more than one processor at a time. On the other hand, communication issues must be also taken into account in systems where tasks (e.g. program modules) are assigned to different processors and exchange information between each other.