Fairness in periodic real-time scheduling

  • Authors:
  • S. K. Baruah

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • RTSS '95 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

The issue of temporal fairness in periodic real-time scheduling is considered. It is argued that such fairness is often a desirable characteristic in real-time schedules. A concrete criterion for temporal fairness-pfairness-is described. The weight-monotonic scheduling algorithm, a static priority scheduling algorithm for generating pfair schedules, is presented and proven correct. A feasibility test is presented which, if satisfied by a system of periodic tasks, ensures that the weight-monotonic scheduling algorithm will schedule the system in a pfair manner.