Real-time computing plays a vital role in ultra-reliable and safety-critical applications in fields as diverse as flight control, telecommunication systems, nuclear plant supervision and surgical operation monitoring. Providing a comprehensive overview, this book examines the most significant real-time scheduling policies in use today.

Scheduling in Real-Time Systems presents:

• Rigorous discussions of the main scheduling algorithms.

• In-depth analyses of centralised and distributed computing systems.

• Detailed coverage of symmetric multiprocessor systems sharing a common memory.

• A complete appraisal of packet scheduling in networks.

• Three relevant case studies including the control system of the robot that the Pathfinder space vehicle landed on Planet Mars.