Power Management Techniques in Real-Time Systems
Funded by: DARPA
PIs: Rami Melhem, Daniel Mosse
The goal of the project is to minimize power consumption in real-time computer systems within the larger context of maximizing system performance and reward while still meeting deadlines. The reward/power/deadlines objective is achieved by first developing new schemes for power-aware real-time systems, including scheduling algorithms, power control of memory resources, speed control of CPUs, and dynamic power monitoring and mode changes. The new schemes have to be integrated into the appropriate components of the system. For example, power control of memory resources requires new hardware capabilities, corresponding operating system support, and algorithms for taking advantage of these mechanisms.