Rate-monotonic scheduling on uniform multiprocessors

The rate-monotonic algorithm is arguably one of the most popular algorithms for scheduling systems of periodic real-time tasks. The rate-monotonic scheduling of systems of periodic tasks on uniform multiprocessor platforms is considered here. A simple, sufficient test is presented for determining whether a given periodic task system will be successfully scheduled by this algorithm upon a particular uniform multiprocessor platform-this test generalizes earlier results concerning rate-monotonic scheduling upon identical multiprocessor platforms.