Establishing a real-time distributed benchmark

There are currently very few well-known approaches for performing measurements on real-time distributed environments, none of which can be considered as widely accepted at this point in time. The establishment of an acceptable approach to evaluation for real-time distributed environments will be a far-reaching enterprise. There is much debate about what constitutes a valid performance level evaluation of a real-time distributed system. The eventual specific measurement methodology, however controversial, must be structured upon a basic foundation from which accuracy and correctness can be built. This paper presents elemental foundation details which must be considered in the process of developing and evaluating a real-time distributed benchmarking proposal for possible future standardization.