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Event-triggered versus time-triggered real-time systems

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Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond

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This paper compares the temporal properties of event-triggered and timetriggered distributed real-time systems. In an event triggered system a processing activity is initiated as a consequence of the occurrence of a significant event. In a time-triggered system, the activities are initiated periodically at predetermined points in real-time. In the first part of this paper, a model of a distributed real-time system is presented and the characteristic attributes of TT-systems and ET-systems are described. The comparison focuses on the issues of predictability, testability, resource utilization, extensibility, and assumption coverage.

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    H. Kopetz

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Arthur Karshmer Jürgen Nehmer

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Kopetz, H. (1991). Event-triggered versus time-triggered real-time systems. In: Karshmer, A., Nehmer, J. (eds) Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024530

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