ABSTRACT
Real-time (RT) systems belong to a class of computer systems that receive inputs from the external world, process them, and generate outputs so as to influence the external world, within a finite time. The inputs to such a system are usually events that occur in the real world, and the time interval between the instant at which such an event occurs and the instant at which the corresponding outputs are generated is termed the response time for the system. Thus, for an RT system, the response time is deterministic having a definite upper bound.
