The question whether preemptive systems are better than non-preemptive systems has been debated for a long time, but only partial answers have been provided in the real-time liter...
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
This paper presents the design and implementation of RT-EP (Real-Time Ethernet Protocol), which is a software-based token-passing Ethernet protocol for multipoint communications in...
In this paper we address the real-time capabilities of P-NET, which is a multi-master fieldbus standard based on a virtual token passing scheme. We show how P-NET's medium ac...
The Sporadic Server (SS) overcomes the major limitations of other Resource Reservation Fixed Priority based techniques, but it also presents some drawbacks, mainly related to an i...