Experimental evaluation of a real-time scheduler for a multiprocessor system

A description is given of the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of a multiprocessor scheduler used with robotics applications and other real-time programs. The scheduler makes decisions concerning both the assignment of processes and the scheduling of these processes on each processor such that a near-optimal numer of processor deadlines is satisfied. It assumes that process execution times, deadlines, and earliest possible start times are known.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>