Real Time Systems 2071(II)

Tribhuwan University
Institute of Science and Technology
2071(II)
Bachelor Level / Sixth Semester / Science
Computer Science and Information Technology ( CSC-354 )
( Real Time Systems )
Full Marks: 80
Pass Marks: 32
Time: 3 hours
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Group A

Attempt any Two questions:(2 x12 = 24)

1. Describe the rules for basic priority inheritance protocol with example.

12 marks view

2. Define resource reservation protocol. Explain in brief, the different types of issues that a resource reservation protocol must deal with.

12 marks view

3. Define rate-monotonic (RM) and deadline-monotonic (DM) algorithms. Describe the DM algorithm with example.

12 marks view

Group B

Attempt any Eight questions.(8 x 7 = 56)

4. What do you understand by "Tracking" and "Gating" in a Radar system? Explain.

8 marks view

5.  What are the meanings of hard real time system, hard timing constraints and temporal quality of  service guarantees?

8 marks view

6. Define release time jitter, relative deadline, and hyper period. If the execution times of three periodic tasks are 1, 1 and 3, and their periods are 3, 4, and 10, then find out the total number of jobs in the hyper-period, and total utilization of jobs.

8 marks view

7. Describe the significance of laxity type with the help of suitable diagram. 

8 marks view

8. Differentiate between dynamic systems and static system in real time systems.

8 marks view

9. Why does the scheduler perform an acceptance test while scheduling sporadic jobs? Explain.

8 marks view

10. Define Deferrable server.State and explain the consumption and replenishment rules of deferrable servers. 

8 marks view

11. Describe the meaning of resource conflict, blocking, priority inversion, and deadlock caused by resource contention.

8 marks view

12. Describe the meaning of job shops and flow shops of end to end tasks in a multiprocessor scheduling.

8 marks view

13. Write short notes on:(Any Two)

a. Service discipline in real time communication

b. Critical section and outermost critical section

c. Context switches

8 marks view