MBBench: A WCET Benchmark Suite

One of the important features of any real-time software is the worst-case execution time (WCET). To get an understanding of the timing behavior of real-time systems and to prove that the real-time software meets its deadlines, WCET analysis is performed. Today, researchers actively develop new WCET analysis methods and tools. Therefore, they need benchmark programs to evaluate and compare their work. To meet this need, in this study we present a new benchmark suite, called MBBench. MBBench includes a collection of C programs for Linux operating system and RTEMS real-time operating system. Its main aim is to help the evaluation and comparison of measurement-based WCET analysis methods/tools. MBBench has been published as open source. It can be obtained freely over the Internet.