Real-Time Systems
This valuable reference provides a comprehensive treatment of the technology known as RMA (rate-monotonic analysis) method. It also covers the tremendous recent advances in real-time operating systems and communications networks—emphasizing research results that have been adopted in state-of-the-art systems. Describing how and discussing why, this book uses insightful illustrative examples to convey technology transition in the last ten years. Coverage includes commonly used approaches to hard real-time scheduling, clock-driven scheduling, scheduling aperiodic and sporadic jobs in priority-driven systems, resources and resource access control, real-time communications, and operating systems. For systems architects, designers, chief scientists and technologists, and systems analysts.
Why Read This Book
You should read this book if you need a deep, principled understanding of real-time scheduling and resource-control techniques: it explains rate-monotonic analysis, schedulability tests, priority-inheritance/ceiling protocols, aperiodic/sporadic handling and real-time communications with clear examples and formal results. Although published in 2000, the book's combination of theory and practical design guidance will help you make predictable, provable decisions when building or tuning RTOS-based firmware and safety-critical systems.
Who Will Benefit
Best suited for intermediate-to-advanced embedded engineers, firmware architects, and researchers who are designing or analyzing real-time/RTOS systems and need formal scheduling analysis and resource-management techniques.
