Abstract

Given n periodic tasks, each characterized by an execution requirement and a period, and m identical copies of a resource, the periodic scheduling problem is concerned with generating a schedule for the n tasks on the m resources. We present an algorithm that schedules every feasible instance of the periodic scheduling problem, and runs in O(minfm lg n; ng) time per slot scheduled. 1 Introduction Given a set \Gamma of n tasks, where each task x is characterized by two integer parameters x:e and x:p, and m identical copies of a resource, a periodic schedule is one that allocates a resource to each task x in \Gamma for exactly x:e time units in each interval [k \Delta x:p; (k+1) \Delta x:p) for all k in N, subject to the following constraints: Constraint 1: A resource can only be allocated to a task for an entire "slot" of time, where for each i in N slot i is the unit interval from time i to time i + 1. Constraint 2: No task may be allocated more than one copy of the resource ...

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