@ARTICLE\{IMM2005-04616,
    author       = "P. Pop and P. Eles and Z. Peng",
    title        = "Schedulability-Driven Frame Packing for Multi-Cluster Distributed Embedded Systems",
    year         = "2005",
    month        = "feb",
    pages        = "112--140",
    journal      = "{ACM} Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems",
    volume       = "4",
    editor       = "",
    number       = "1",
    publisher    = "",
    url          = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/4616-full.html",
    abstract     = "We present an approach to frame packing for multi-cluster distributed embedded systems consisting of time-triggered and event-triggered clusters, interconnected via gateways. In our approach, the application messages are packed into frames such that the application is schedulable, thus the end-to-end message communication constraints are satisfied. We have proposed a schedulability analysis for applications consisting of mixed event-triggered and timetriggered processes and messages, and a worst-case queuing delay analysis for the gateways, responsible for routing inter-cluster traffic. Optimization heuristics for frame packing aiming at producing a schedulable system have been proposed. Extensive experiments and a real-life example show the efficiency of our frame-packing approach."
}