Real-Time Systems 1st Edition  (English, Hardcover, Liu Jane W. S.)

For senior/graduate-level courses in Real-Time Systems in Computer Science and Computer Engineering departments.

Written by a renowned authority, this advanced text comprehensively covers the tremendous recent advances in real-time operating systems and communications networks-emphasizing research results that have been adopted in state-of-the-art systems. Describing how and discussing why, this book uses insightful illustrative examples to convey technology transition in the last ten years.

Salient Features

• The most authoritative and comprehensive real-time systems book available.
• Multiple examples-Illustrates each algorithm or protocol.
• Enable students to learn the material at the detailed level, so that instructorshave more time to discuss “the big picture” concepts in class.
• Emphasis on algorithms and methods for validation.
• Explains to students the procedures and tools of schedulability analysis, as well as their limitations.
• More than 100 illustrations.
• Provide students with insightful examples to enhance their understanding of the verbal presentation.
• Exercises on additional results-e.g., algorithms and protocols.
• Present students with more challenging problems to expand their knowledge of chapter coverage.
• Review exercises.
• Offer students relatively simple problems to test and increase their understanding of chapter material.