Real-Time Systems: Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications

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"This book is a comprehensive text for the design of safety critical hard real-time embedded systems. It offers a splendid example for the balanced integrated treatment of systems and software engineering helping readers tackle the hardest problems of advanced real-time system design such as determinism compositionality timing and fault management. This book is an essential reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines impacted by embedded computing and software. Its conceptual clarity the style of explanations and the examples make the abstract concepts accessible for a wide audience." Janos Sztipanovits Director E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering Institute for Software Integrated Systems Vanderbilt University Real-Time Systems focuses on hard real-time systems which are computing systems that must meet their temporal specification in all anticipated load and fault scenarios. The book stresses the system aspects of distributed real-time applications treating the issues of real-time distribution and fault-tolerance from an integral point of view. A unique cross-fertilization of ideas and concepts between the academic and industrial worlds has led to the inclusion of many insightful examples from industry to explain the fundamental scientific concepts in a real-world setting. Compared to the first edition new developments in complexity management energy and power management dependability security and the internet of things are addressed. The book is written as a standard textbook for a high-level undergraduate or graduate course on real-time embedded systems or cyber-physical systems. Its practical approach to solving real-time problems along with numerous summary exercises makes it an excellent choice for researchers and practitioners alike.