Design Optimization of Security-Sensitive Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Embedded Systems

In this paper we are interested in securitysensitive mixed-criticality real-time systems. Existing researches on mixed-criticality systems usually are safety-oriented, which seriously ignore the security requirements. We firstly establish the system model to capture security-critical applications in mixed-criticality systems. Higher security-criticality protection always results in significant time and energy overhead in mixedcriticality systems. Thus, this paper proposes a system-level design framework for energy optimization of security-sensitive mixed-criticality system. Since the time complexity of finding optimal solutions grows exponentially as problem size grows, a GA based efficient heuristic algorithm is devised to address the system-level optimization problem. Extensive experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed technique, which can obtain balanced minimal energy consumption while satisfying strict security and timing constraints.