B.Korousic, J.E.Cooling, P.Kolbezen. <br>
Predictable hard real-time scheduling.<br> 
<i>Proc. 4th EUROMICRO Workshop on Real-Time Systems</i>, 
pp.196-201, Athens, Greece, June 1992.<p>

The essential feature of hard real-time systems is that the embedded computer
must deliver its results correctly and on-time - otherwise malfunction may
result. To assure software constructions of such systems a support of a 
real-time operating system is needed. We present a task scheduling and
mutual exclusion protocol as one of real-time operating system structuring
mechanisms. The protocol is applicable to aperiodic tasks having specific 
priority and timing characteristics.