"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.
