(m,k)-firm constraints have been used to schedule tasks in soft/firm real-time systems under overloaded conditions. In general, they are provided by application designers to guara...
Abstract. Although Ada defines a number of mechanisms for specifying scheduling policies, only one, Fifo Within Priorities is guaranteed to be supported by all implementations of ...
Multicores are becoming ubiquitous, not only in general-purpose but also embedded computing. This trend is a reflexion of contemporary embedded applications posing steadily incre...
Abhik Sarkar, Frank Mueller, Harini Ramaprasad, Si...
The existing thread scheduler in FreeBSD was well suited towards the computing environment that it was developed in. As the priorities and hardware targets of the project have cha...
Multitasking reconfigurable computers with one or more reconfigurable processors are being used increasingly during the past few years. One of the major challenges in such systems...