Distributed Real-time Systems

A distributed system is a system having spatially separated units (nodes) performing information processing with certain autonomy. Normally, each such node operates with a processor and memory of its own and receives and transmits data over a network of some kind. There is now a wide-spread conviction among researchers and in the industry that distributed solutions will be the main-stream of development of real-time systems in the future. This gives obvious advantages, but also some complicated problems in the area of process scheduling and process allocation.

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