An Open Distributed Real-time Environment Based on Variable Utilization Server

Abstract

This paper extends the environment for open distributed real-time systems, where hard or soft real-time applications may run concurrently with non-real-time applications. We replace the top-level improved constant utilization server scheduler of the open system architecture in with variable utilization server scheduler. The proposed open real-time environment in this paper allows tasks in each application to share local and global nonpreemptive resources, which accommodates a much broader spectrum of real-time applications. Additionally, the extended environment assigns CPU bandwidth to each server in a more flexible and more adaptive way. The evaluation results show the performance of the open system is also improved considerably