A utilization bound for aperiodic tasks and priority driven scheduling

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 334-350

  Abdelzaher, Tarek F ^a   Sharma, Vivek ^a   Lu, Chenyang ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperiodic tasks; Real time scheduling; Schedulability analysis; Utilization bounds

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

APERIODIC TASKS; PRIORITY DRIVEN SCHEDULING; REAL-TIME SCHEDULING; UTILIZATION BOUND;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION);

EID: 1842583394     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2004.1261839     Document Type: Article

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