DREAMS - Concepts of a Distributed Real-Time Management System

Abstract Although there are some commercial real-time operating systems available on the market today, the common prejudices against their use for implementing control algorithms are still justified. Consequently, most control applications are designed to run on bare hardware, to avoid system overhead and ensure predictable response times throughout the entire application. This paper introduces new concepts for building an operating system, that scales the overhead according to present real-time constraints by adapting its set of services provided, so that any application requirements can be fulfilled provided that sufficient hardware resources are available.