The limitations of the deterministic formulation of scheduling are outlined and a probabilistic approach is motivated. A number of models are reviewed with one being chosen as a basic framework. Response-time analysis is extended to incorporate a probabilistic characterisation of task arrivals and execution times. Copulas are used to represent dependencies.

BibTex Entry

@inproceedings{Burns2003e,
 author = {A. Burns and G. Bernat and I. Broster},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third International Embedded Software Conference, EMSOFT},
 editor = {R Alur and I Lee},
 number = {LNCS 2855},
 pages = {1--15},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
 title = {A Probabilistic Framework for Schedulability Analysis},
 year = {2003}
}