Scheduling Sporadic and Aperiodic Events in a Hard Real-Time System

April 1989 • Technical Report

Brinkley Sprunt, Lui R. Sha, J. Lehoczky

This 1989 report introduces a new algorithm, the Sporadic Server algorithm, which greatly improves response times for soft-deadline aperiodic tasks and can guarantee hard deadlines for both periodic and aperiodic tasks.

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Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-89-TR-011

Subjects

Performance and DependabilityPerformance and Dependability

Abstract

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.

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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 March 28, 2023, 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} }

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