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Fault-tolerant scheduling in homogeneous real-time systems

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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 46, Issue 4

Article No.: 48, Pages 1 - 34

https://doi.org/10.1145/2534028

Published: 01 March 2014 Publication History

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Real-time systems are one of the most important applications of computers, both in commercial terms and in terms of social impact. Increasingly, real-time computers are used to control life-critical applications and need to meet stringent reliability conditions. Since the reliability of a real-time system is related to the probability of meeting its hard deadlines, these reliability requirements translate to the need to meet critical task deadlines with a very high probability. We survey the problem of how to schedule tasks in such a way that deadlines continue to be met despite processor (permanent or transient) or software failure.

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Published: 01 March 2014

Accepted: 01 September 2013

Revised: 01 September 2012

Received: 01 May 2008

Published in CSUR Volume 46, Issue 4

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