Fast, best-effort real-time scheduling algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1159-1175

  Li, Peng ^a   Ravindran, Binoy ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

ADAPTIVE RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ASYNCHRONOUS REAL TIME SYSTEMS; BEST EFFORT REAL TIME SCHEDULING; DISTRIBUTED REAL TIME SYSTEMS; MODIFIED DEPENDENT ACTIVITY SCHEDULING ALGORITHM; MODIFIED LOCKE BEST EFFORT SCHEDULING ALGORITHM; RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 4644285845     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2004.61     Document Type: Article

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