A real-time system consists of both aperiodic and periodic tasks. Periodic tasks have regular arrival times and hard deadlines. Aperiodic tasks have irregular arrival times and either soft or hard deadlines. In this paper, we present a new algorithm, the Sporadic Server algorithm, that greatly improves response times for soft-deadline aperiodic tasks and can guarantee hard deadlines for both periodic and aperiodic tasks. The operation of the Sporadic Server algorithm, its performance, and schedulability analysis are discussed and compared with previous, published aperiodic service algorithms.
SEI
Sprunt, Brinkley; Sha, Lui; & Lehoczky, John. Scheduling Sporadic and Aperiodic Events in a Hard Real-Time System. CMU/SEI-89-TR-011 . Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. 1989. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10919
IEEE
Sprunt. Brinkley, Sha. Lui, and Lehoczky. John, "Scheduling Sporadic and Aperiodic Events in a Hard Real-Time System," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-89-TR-011 , 1989. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10919
APA
Sprunt, Brinkley., Sha, Lui., & Lehoczky, John. (1989). Scheduling Sporadic and Aperiodic Events in a Hard Real-Time System (CMU/SEI-89-TR-011 ). Retrieved April 25, 2018, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10919
CHI
Brinkley Sprunt, Lui Sha, & John Lehoczky. Scheduling Sporadic and Aperiodic Events in a Hard Real-Time System (CMU/SEI-89-TR-011 ). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1989. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10919
MLA
Sprunt, Brinkley., Sha, Lui., & Lehoczky, John. 1989. Scheduling Sporadic and Aperiodic Events in a Hard Real-Time System (Technical Report CMU/SEI-89-TR-011 ). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10919
BibTex
@techreport{SpruntSchedulingSporadic1989,
title={Scheduling Sporadic and Aperiodic Events in a Hard Real-Time System},
author={Brinkley Sprunt and Lui Sha and John Lehoczky},
year={1989},
number={CMU/SEI-89-TR-011 },
institution={Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University},
address={Pittsburgh, PA},
url={http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=10919}
}