A real-time distributed scheduling service for middleware systems

Abstract

The latest version of real-time CORBA defines a distributable thread primitive to support real-time computing in a dynamic distributed environment. However, this standard does not provide support for making and enforcing global decisions. This paper describes the framework for a distributed scheduling service (DSS) that provides globally sound decision-making and scheduling enforcement to real-time distributed systems. The paper describes the design and implementation of the framework, as well as preliminary performance results.