Literature

These research articles and course book excepts can be downloaded from the course home page. For copyright reasons, a password is required for downloading the documents.

K. Jeffay, D. F. Stanat and C. U. Martel: "On Non-Preemptive Scheduling of Periodic and Sporadic Tasks"

In Proceedings of the  Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 4-6, 1991, San Antonio, Texas,  pp. 129-139.

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J. Xu and D. L. Parnas: "Scheduling Processes with Release Times, Deadlines, Precedence, and Exclusion Constraints"

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 3, March 1990, pp. 360-369.

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K. W. Tindell, A. Burns and A. Wellings: "Allocating Hard Real-Time Tasks: An NP-Hard Problem Made Easy"

Real-Time Systems: The International Journal on Time-Critical Computing, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 145-165.

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J. Jonsson and K. G. Shin: "A Parametrized Branch-and-Bound Strategy for Scheduling Precedence-Constrained Tasks on a Multiprocessor System"

In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing, August 11-14, 1997, Bloomington, Illinois, pp. 158-165.

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K. Zuberi and K. G. Shin: "Non-Preemptive Scheduling of Messages on Controller Area Network for Real-Time Control Applications"

In Proceedings of the  Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, May 15-17, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 240-249.

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B. Chen and W. Zhao: "Properties of the Timed Token Protocol" 

Technical Report 92-038, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, October 1992.

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S. K. Baruah, N. K. Cohen, C. G. Plaxton and D. A. Varvel: "Proportionate Progress: A Notion of Fairness in Resource Allocation"

Algorithmica, Vol. 15, 1996, pp. 600-625.

[ PDF ] (overview presentation of Pfair scheduling by B. Andersson: PDF)

B. Andersson, S. Baruah and J. Jonsson: "Static-Priority Scheduling on Multiprocessors"

In Proceedings of the  Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 3-6, 2001, London, England, pp. 193 - 202.

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R. Wilhelm, J. Engblom, A. Ermedahl et al.: "The Worst-Case Execution Time Problem - Overview of Methods and Survey of Tools,"

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.

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A. Ermedahl and J. Engblom, "Execution Time Analysis for Embedded Real-Time Systems"

Draft document.

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C. M. Krishna and K. G. Shin: "Real-Time Systems"

McGraw-Hill, 1997, ISBN 0-07-114243-6 (paperback), ISBN 0-07-057043-4 (cloth) - Out of print

Errata sheet: [ PDF ]

Chapter 3
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Chapter 6
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