Distributed Real-Time Systems

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This classroom-tested textbook offers a bottom-up approach to designing and implementing software for distributed real-time systems. It addresses common challenges in real-time software projects and presents a novel method for executing all software engineering steps effectively. Each chapter begins with core concepts and relevant methods, followed by the implementation of these concepts in a sample kernel, complete with executable code. Key topics include the fundamentals of real-time systems, real-time architecture, and distributed systems, with a focus on real-time operating systems covering task, memory, and input/output management. The book provides a detailed step-by-step construction of a real-time operating system kernel, which is utilized to test various higher-level implementations. It also discusses periodic and aperiodic scheduling, resource management, and distributed scheduling. The process of application design is reviewed from high-level methods to low-level implementation details. Additionally, it surveys real-time programming languages and fault tolerance techniques, includes end-of-chapter review questions, extensive C code, numerous examples, and a case study for real-world applications. With only a basic background in computer architecture and operating systems required, this work is an invaluable resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students in electrical and computer engineering, as well as com