Table of Contents

Introduction: background, scope, and context.- Preliminaries: workload and platform models.- Preliminaries: scheduling concepts and goals.- A review of selected results on uniprocessors.- Implicit-deadline (L&L) tasks.- Partitioned scheduling of L&L tasks.- Global dynamic-priority scheduling of L&L tasks.- Global Fixed-Job-Priority scheduling of L&L tasks.- Global Fixed-Task-Priority scheduling of L&L tasks.