<algorithm> A means of scheduling the time allocated to
periodic hard-deadline real-time users of a resource. The
users are assigned priorities such that a shorter fixed period
between deadlines is associated with a higher priority.
Rate monotonic scheduling provides a low-overhead, reasonably
resource-efficient means of guaranteeing that all users will
meet their deadlines provided that certain analytical
equations are satisfied during the system design. It avoids
the design complexity of time-line scheduling and the
overhead of dynamic approaches such as earliest-deadline
scheduling.
[D. R. Wilcox, Naval Ocean Systems Center Technical Report
1310, August 1989, "Periodic Phase Adjustment Distributed
Clock Synchronization in the Hard Realtime Environment",
p. 9].
(1996-03-23)
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