Real-Time and Distributed Real-Time Systems ─ Theory and Applications

This book starts with the basic concepts of real-time (RT) systems and then progresses to describe other related concepts. It introduces real-time systems and extends to multi-processor real-time systems. It also covers topics like multi-processor task scheduling and synchronization mechanisms. This book provides a holistic view of a DRTS starting from uni-processor RT systems and focuses on design using common MATLABR-based tools which are widely available. An extensive portion of the book deals with design and implementation of practical DRTS using MATLAB.

Amitava Gupta is a professor in the Department of Power Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. A graduate in electrical engineering from Jadavpur University, Professor Gupta earned his MTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and his PhD from Jadavpur University. He has served as an engineer in the Control and Instrumentation Division of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. and as a member of the High-Performance Computing Group of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore, before switching to academics. He also served as a Gastwissenscaftler (visiting scientist) at Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany, and as a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Gastdozent (visiting professor) at the University of Rostock, Germany and at Technische Universitat Munchen. His research interests include distributed simulation, distributed real-time systems, networked control systems, and control of nuclear reactors.

Anil Kumar Chandra graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, and finally retired as a distinguished scientist and executive director (research and development) of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd., Mumbai. He worked on modernization of control rooms and associated instrumentation for forthcoming Indian nuclear power plants. He structured the required systems as distributed architectures with considerable standardization of hardware, software, and human–computer interaction. He also worked on obsolescence management of instrumentation in the older power plants. He contributed to devising the safety guide for the review of digital instrumentation and control. He is a senior life member of the Computer Society of India and a life member of the Indian Nuclear Society.

Peter Luksch is the chair of distributed high performance computing at the Institute of Computing at the University of Rostock, Germany. Professor Luksch obtained his diploma in computer science from the Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany, followed by his doctoral degree and his habilitation. He served as the head of the Parallel and Distributed Applications Research Group of the Institutut fuer Informaik of the Technische Universitat Munchen and as a visiting scholar at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia), before joining the University of Rostock. Professor Luksch’s research primarily encompasses parallel and distributed computing.