Schedulability Analysis of Applications with Stochastic Task Execution Times

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 706-735

  Manolache, Sorin ^a   Eles, Petru ^a   Peng, Zebo ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Performance; Schedulability analysis; soft real time systems; stochastic task execution times; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862915857     PISSN: 15399087     EISSN: 15583465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1027794.1027797     Document Type: Article

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