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A distributed real-time system (DRTS) consists of autonomous computing nodes connected by a real-time network. Nodes in such a system cooperate to achieve a common goal within specified deadlines. Distributed real-time systems are needed for a number of reasons. First and foremost, real-time computing is naturally distributed with nodes processing parts of an application that may be apart. Second, one of the most important reasons in employing distributed systems is to achieve fault tolerance which is a fundamental requirement from any real-time system. Also, balancing the load across the nodes of a DRTS improves performance. We review the main issues in a DRTs which are models, distributed real-time operating systems and the middleware and the real-time network in this chapter.
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Erciyes, K. (2019). Distributed Real-Time Systems. In: Distributed Real-Time Systems. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22570-4_3
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