Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201, U.S.A.
Department of Computer Science, Queens College Flushing, New York, NY 11367, U.S.A.
Abstract:
We consider the complexity of determining whether a set of periodic, real-time tasks can be scheduled on m 1 identical processors with respect to fixed-priority scheduling. It is shown that the problem is NP-hard in all but one special case. The complexity of optimal fixed-priority scheduling algorithm is also discussed.