Static-Priority Real-Time Scheduling: Response Time Computation Is NP-Hard

  • Authors:
  • Friedrich Eisenbrand;Thomas Rothvoβ

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • RTSS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Real-Time Systems Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We show that response time computation for Rate-monotonic,preemptive scheduling of periodic tasks is NP-hard under Turingreductions. More precisely, we show that the response time of a taskcannot be approximated within any constant factor, unless P=NP.