A utility accrual scheduling algorithm for real-time activities with mutual exclusion resource constraints

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 454-469

  Li, Peng ^a   Wu, Haisang ^b   Ravindran, Binoy ^c   Jensen, E Douglas ^d  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b JUNIPER NETWORKS   (United States)

^c State University   (United States)

^d MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Mutual exclusion; Overload management; Real time scheduling; Resource dependency; Resource management; Time utility functions; Utility accrual scheduling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

ACCRUAL SCHEDULING ALGORITHM; OVERLOAD MANAGEMENT; REAL-TIME SCHEDULING ALGORITHM; RESOURCE DEPENDENCY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645213156     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2006.47     Document Type: Article

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