Realtss: a real-time scheduling simulator

Real-time scheduling theory has shown an impressive evolution in the past few years. As a consequence of the intensive research done in this area a lot of new scheduling policies had been proposed to date. Nevertheless, just a few of such scheduling policies are available in existing real-time operating systems (RTOS). In this paper, we describe Realtss, an open source realtime scheduling simulator which is suited to simulate real-time scheduling algorithms without the need of implement them in a RTOS. Realtss is an invaluable teaching and researching tool since existing and new real-time scheduling policies can be easily evaluated.