A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems

Mark Klein
Thomas Ralya
Bill Pollak
Ray Obenza
Michael González Harbour

A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems contains a collection of quantitative methods that enable real-time systems developers to understand, analyze, and predict the timing behavior of many real-time systems. The handbook has been created to serve as a guide for developers as they analyze and design real-time systems using rate monotonic analysis (RMA). The handbook can be used as a reference or as the text for advanced courses on the subject.

The methods are practical and theoretically sound, and can be used to assess design tradeoffs and to troubleshoot system timing behavior. RMA is the name given to the collection of methods discussed in this book.

The handbook includes a framework for describing and categorizing the timing aspects of real-time systems, step-by-step techniques of performing timing analysis, numerous examples of real-time situations to which the techniques can be applied, and two case studies.

Handbook topics covered include:

fundamentals of RMA
a framework for describing real-time systems
techniques for analyzing timing behavior
basic real-time situations
advanced real-time situations
effects of operating system and runtime services on timing analysis
analyzing complex systems
designing with rate monotonic analysis

The handbook addresses the following situations:

handling periodic events
designing tasks that must synchronize to share common data
handling aperiodic events
controlling jitter
message passing paradigms
issues in multiprocessor and distributed systems
new events and actions introduced by operating system services
limited representations
presence or absence of particular operating system features
support for RMA concepts in standard operating and runtime systems

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