A Practitioner’s Handbook for Real-Time Analysis, 1993
Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems
Electronic Materials: Science & Technology Series

A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to RateMonotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems contains an invaluable collection of quantitative methods that enable real-time system developers to understand, analyze, and predict the timing behavior of many real-time systems. The methods are practical and theoretically sound, and can be used to assess design tradeoffs and to troubleshoot system timing behavior. This collection of methods is called rate monotonic analysis (RMA).
The Handbook includes a framework for describing and categorizing the timing aspects of real-time systems, step-by-step techniques for performing timing analysis, numerous examples of real-time situations to which the techniques can be applied, and two case studies.
A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to RateMonotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems has been created to serve as a definitive source of information and a guide for developers as they analyze and design real-time systems using RMA. The Handbook is an excellent reference, and may be used as the text for advanced courses on the subject.

1 Introduction.- 1 About This Handbook.- 2 Fundamentals of RMA.- 2 Concepts and Techniques.- 3 A Framework for Describing Real-Time Systems.- 4 Techniques for Analyzing Timing Behavior.- 3 Analyzing Real-Time Systems.- 5 Basic Real-Time Situations.- 6 Advanced Real-Time Situations.- 7 Effects of Operating System and Runtime Services on Timing Analysis.- 4 Using the Handbook on Realistic Systems.- 8 Analyzing Complex Systems.- 9 Designing with Rate Monotonic Analysis.- 5 Appendices.- Appendix A Rules of Thumb.- Appendix B Notation Used in This Handbook.- Appendix C Bibliography.- Appendix D Glossary.- Appendix E Index.