Integrating Best Effort And Fixed Priority Scheduling

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Abstract

Adaptive and dynamic behaviour is seen as one of the key characteristics of next generation hard real-time systems. Whilst fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling is becoming a de facto standard in real-time system implementation, it remains inflexible in its purest form. One approach to countering this criticism is to allow optional components, not guaranteed offline, to be executed at run-time. Optional components may be guaranteed a minimum set of resources at run-time, with competing resource requests scheduled according to the best-effort approach. This allows increased dynamic behaviour and improves the utility of the system. In this paper, we discuss this integration of fixed priority and best effort scheduling
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIFIP Workshop on Real-Time Programming
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Publication statusPublished - Jun 1994

Keywords

  • real-time
  • fixed priority
  • scheduling
  • spare capacity
  • optional components

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