Real Time Systems 1 Edition By Jane W S Liu

Written by a renowned expert, Real-Time System provides professionals and students with a comprehensive treatment of real-time computing and communication systems. The book covers the most recent advances in real-time operating systems and communications networks. Thus, this book serves as a vehicle for technology transition within the real-time system community of systems architects, designers chief scientists and technologists and systems analysts. Jane Liu\'s subject mater and adept treatment provides an engaging learning environment for students as well. With real-time systems, the technologies at play include telecommunication, signal processing, command and control and digital control. Their applications have particular relevance to day-to-day operations, such as engine and break mechanisms in cars, traffic light operations, flight control and air-traffic control and heartbeat and blood pressure monitoring. This text describes not only how, but also why, through insightful illustrative examples. Real-Time Systems is both a valuable reference for professionals and an advanced text for Computer Science and Computer Engineering students.