@CONFERENCE\{IMM2003-04637,
    author       = "P. Pop and P. Eles and Z. Peng",
    title        = "Schedulability-Driven Frame Packing for Multi-Cluster Distributed Embedded Systems",
    year         = "2003",
    month        = "jun",
    pages        = "113--122",
    booktitle    = "Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems",
    volume       = "",
    series       = "",
    editor       = "",
    publisher    = "",
    organization = "",
    address      = "",
    url          = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/4637-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, we have also proposed a schedulability analysis for applications consisting of mixed event-triggered and time-triggered 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."
}