Stability and Performance of List Scheduling with External Process Delays

Real-Time Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-38

  Deogun, J S ^a   Kieckhafer, R M ^a   Krings, A W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b University of Idaho   (United States)

Author keywords

General instability conditions; Multiprocessor anomalies; Non preemptive scheduling; Phantom tasks; Priority list scheduling; Scheduling stability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; SYSTEM STABILITY;

GENERAL INSTABILITY CONDITIONS; MULTIPROCESSOR ANOMALIES PHANTOM TASKS; NON PREEMPTIVE SCHEDULING; PRIORITY LIST SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING STABILITY;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032121795     PISSN: 09226443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008094006346     Document Type: Article

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