Real-Time Systems: Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications

This book is a comprehensive text for the design of safety critical, hard real-time embedded systems, offering a balanced treatment of systems and software engineering. It covers topics such as determinism, compositionality, timing, and fault management and is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in embedded computing and software. It includes insightful examples from industry and new developments in communication standards.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 406 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This book is a comprehensive resource for designing safety-critical, hard real-time embedded systems. It provides a splendid example of a balanced and integrated approach to systems and software engineering, aiding readers in tackling complex challenges in advanced real-time system design, including determinism, compositionality, timing, and fault management. This book is a must-read for advanced undergraduates and graduate students across various disciplines influenced by embedded computing and software. Its conceptual clarity, engaging explanations, and practical examples make abstract concepts accessible to a broad audience.

Janos Sztipanovits, Director of the E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University, emphasizes the importance of real-time systems, which are computing systems that must meet their temporal specifications under all anticipated load and fault scenarios. The book focuses on the system aspects of distributed real-time applications, addressing real-time, distribution, and fault-tolerance issues from an integral perspective. A unique cross-fertilization of ideas and concepts between academia and industry has resulted in the inclusion of numerous insightful examples from the industry to illustrate fundamental scientific concepts in a real-world context.

In comparison to the Second Edition, the book addresses new developments in communication standards for time-sensitive networks, such as TSN (Time-Sensitive Network) and Time-Triggered Ethernet. Furthermore, this edition includes a comprehensive chapter on real-time aspects in cloud and fog computing.

The book is structured as a standard textbook for high-level undergraduate or graduate courses on real-time embedded systems or cyber-physical systems. Its practical approach makes it an invaluable resource for practitioners and researchers in the field.

Weight: 646g
Dimension: 156 x 235 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031119941
Edition number: 3rd ed. 2022