Resource Kernels: A Resource-Centric Approach to Real-Time and Multimedia Systems

Raj Rajkumar, Kanaka Juvva, Anastasio Molano and Shuichi Oikawa,     Real-Time and Multimedia Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA 152131; Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. E-mail address: raj+@cs.cmu.edu, kjuvva@cs.cmu.edu, amolano@cs.cmu.edu, shui@cs.cmu.edu

Abstract

We consider the problem of OS resource management for real-time and multimedia systems where multiple activities with different timing constraints must be scheduled concurrently. Time on a particulor resource is shared among its users and must be globally managed in real-time and multimedia systems. A resource kernel is meant for use in such systems and is ...

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