Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

An 0(n log mn) algorithm is presented to preemptively schedule n tasks on m identical machines. The tasks are assumed to have due dates. All tasks are initially available. The objective is to obtain a ...

We study the problem of obtaining feasible preemptive schedules for independent jobs. It is assumed that each job has associated with it a release and due time. No job can begin before its release ...