The pinwheel: A real-time scheduling problem

Handbook of Scheduling: Algorithms, Models, and Performance Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 27-1-27-18

  Chen, Deji ^a   Mok, Aloysius ^b  

^a Rosemount Inc   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

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