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Real-time scheduling is a well-studied field with mature techniques such as Rate Monotonic Analysis. In this paper, we investigate an alternative approach to solving real-time scheduling problems with model-checking. We use the modeling formalism Hybrid Automata and the model-checker HyTech for this purpose, and illustrate advantages and limitations of this approach as compared to the conventional real-time scheduling techniques. In particular, we can use model-checking for analysis of best-case response time of tasks in addition to the worst-case response time, and we can take advantage of HyTech’s parametric analysis capability to derive task parameters such as the critical scaling factor.
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Gu, Z. (2005). Solving Real-Time Scheduling Problems with Model-Checking. In: Yang, L.T., Zhou, X., Zhao, W., Wu, Z., Zhu, Y., Lin, M. (eds) Embedded Software and Systems. ICESS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3820. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11599555_20
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