Distributed Real-Time System Design: Theoretical Concepts and Applications

Abstract

Distributed real-time system design raises new theoretical issues and application challenges, beyond that in /centralized systems. Rate monotonic scheduling (RMS) theory has been successfully applied in the scheduling of centralized systems. RMS and its generalizations have been adopted by national high technology projects such as the Space Station and has recently been supported by major open standards such as the IEEE Futurebus+ and POSIX.4. In this paper, we describe the use of generalized rate monotonic scheduling theory for the design and analysis of a distributed real-time system. Were view the recent extensions of the theory to distributed system scheduling, examine the architectural requirements for use of the theory, and finally provide an application example.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA265199

Entities

People

  • Lui R. Sha
  • Shirish S. Sathaye

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Systems
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Exchange
  • Local Area Networks
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Phase Control
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Signal Processing
  • Software Development
  • Space Stations
  • Standards
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Software Engineering.

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  • Space