Networked control systems often send information across the communication network in a
periodic manner. The selected period, however, must assure adequate system performance …

Real-time computing plays a crucial role in our society since an increasing number of
complex systems rely, in part or completely, on computer control. Examples of applications …

Most of today's embedded systems are required to work in dynamic environments, where the
characteristics of the computational load cannot always be predicted in advance. Still timely …

Since the first results published in 1973 by Liu and Layland on the Rate Monotonic (RM) and
Earliest Deadline First (EDF) algorithms, a lot of progress has been made in the …

The question whether preemptive algorithms are better than nonpreemptive ones for
scheduling a set of real-time tasks has been debated for a long time in the research …

Most malicious attacks compromise system security through memory corruption exploits.
Recently proposed techniques attempt to defeat these attacks by protecting program control …

Soft Real-Time Systems Page 1 SERIES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Giorgio Buttazzo,
Giuseppe Lipari, Luca Abeni, and Marco Caccamo Soft Real-Time Systems Predictability vs …

Ethernet was not originally developed to meet the requirements of real-time industrial
automation systems and it was commonly considered unsuited for applications at the field …

Virtual Private Networks (VPN) technology allows users to remotely access their enterprise
networks through a public network such as Internet. To accomplish secure remote accesses …

In resource-constrained systems, the interference generated by the concurrent execution of
multiple controller tasks leads to extra delay and jitter, which degrade control performance …