Schedulability analysis of fixed priority real-time systems with offsets

For a number of years, work has been performed in collaboration with industry to establish improved techniques for achieving and proving the system timing constraints. The specific requirements encountered during the course of this work for both uniprocessor and distributed systems indicate a need for an efficient mechanism for handling the timing analysis of task sets which feature offsets. Little research has been performed on this subject. The paper describes a new technique tailored to a set of real world problems so that the results are effective and the complexity is manageable.