• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.74-97
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• 2008

A scheduling policy or a schedulability test is defined to be sustainable if any task system determined to be schedulable remains so if it behaves "better" than mandated by its system specifications. We provide a formal definition of sustainability, and subject the concept to systematic analysis in the context of the uniprocessor scheduling of periodic and sporadic task systems. We argue that it is, in general, preferable engineering practice to use sustainable tests if possible, and classify common uniprocessor schedulability tests according to whether they are sustainable or not.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.9
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• pp.1167-1176
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• 2002

In a (hard) real-time system, every time-critical task must meet its timing constraint, which is typically specified in terms of its deadline. Many computer systems, such as those for open system environment or multimedia services, need an efficient schedulability test for on-line real-time admission control of new jobs. Although various polynomial time schedulability tests have been proposed, they often fail to decide the schedulability of the system precisely when the system is heavily loaded. Furthermore, the most of previous studies on on-line real-time schedulability tests are concentrated on periodic task applications. Thus, this paper presents an efficient on-line real-time schedulability check algorithm which can be used for imprecise real-time system predictability before dispatching of on-line imprecise real-time task system consisted of aperiodic and preemptive task sets when the system is overloaded.