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In this paper, we develop an exact schedulability test and sufficient infeasibility test for fixed-priority scheduling on multiprocessor platforms. We base our tests on presenting real-time systems as a Kripke model for dynamic real-time systems with...

(This article belongs to the Section Control and Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,220 Views
17 Pages

Ship Scheduling Algorithm Based on Markov-Modulated Fluid Priority Queues

  • Jianzhi Deng,
  • Shuilian Lv,
  • Yun Li,
  • Liping Luo and ,
  • Yishan Su,
  • Xiaolin Wang and
  • Xinzhi Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 July 2025

As a key node in port logistics systems, ship anchorage is often faced with congestion caused by ship flow fluctuations, multi-priority scheduling imbalances and the poor adaptability of scheduling models to complex environments. To solve the above p...

(This article belongs to the Topic Optimization Control and Fault Diagnosis of Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,874 Views
24 Pages

Multi-Criteria Optimization in Operations Scheduling Applying Selected Priority Rules

  • Zuzana Červeňanská,
  • Pavel Važan,
  • Martin Juhás and
  • Bohuslava Juhásová

19 March 2021

The utilization of a specific priority rule in scheduling operations in flexible job shop systems strongly influences production goals. In a context of production control in real practice, production performance indicators are evaluated always en blo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planning and Scheduling Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
5,819 Views
21 Pages

23 March 2019

Emergency observations are missions executed by Earth observation satellites to support urgent ground operations. Emergency observations become more important for meeting the requirements of highly dynamic and highly time-sensitive observation missio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite and Airborne Remote Sensing for Earth Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,372 Views
20 Pages

Task Scheduling Based on Adaptive Priority Experience Replay on Cloud Platforms

  • Cuixia Li,
  • Wenlong Gao,
  • Li Shi,
  • Zhiquan Shang and
  • Shuyan Zhang

Task scheduling algorithms based on reinforce learning (RL) have been important methods with which to improve the performance of cloud platforms; however, due to the dynamics and complexity of the cloud environment, the action space has a very high d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques in Computing and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,687 Views
25 Pages

In cognitive radio networks, channel assembling allows secondary users (SUs) to expand network capacity and improve spectrum utilization. Scheduling strategies only based on heterogeneous service classification cannot guarantee the delivery priority...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ubiquitous Sensor Networks, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
766 Views
31 Pages

29 December 2025

This paper presents an improved knowledge-based genetic algorithm for relay satellite task scheduling. It aims to address the issue of ensuring high-priority tasks under complex constraints and resource competition. The algorithm enhances the high-pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,818 Views
17 Pages

5 September 2021

Resource-constrained project scheduling (RCPS) aims to minimize project duration under limited resource availabilities. The heuristic methods that are often used to solve the RCPS problem make use of different priority rules. The comparative merits o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,284 Views
21 Pages

18 August 2022

In order to effectively allocate processes of Aa single complex product to two workshops with the same equipment, an integrated scheduling algorithm of two workshops based on process end time driven and processing area priority is proposed. To optimi...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
498 Views
39 Pages

Beam-Hopping Scheduling for High-Priority and Time-Sensitive Services in Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Networks

  • Liang Gou,
  • Yulei Nie,
  • Wei Sun,
  • Dapeng Qi and ,
  • Ziwei Liu and
  • Gengxin Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 September 2026

Beam-Hopping (BH) dynamically adjusts beam pointing and dwell time to overcome the rigid resource allocation of traditional fixed beam coverage. This paper addresses the BH scheduling problem in low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite networks for high-prior...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Networking for Satellite Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,936 Views
17 Pages

20 December 2016

Currently, wireless body area networks (WBANs) are effectively used for health monitoring services. However, in cases where WBANs are densely deployed, interference among WBANs can cause serious degradation of network performance and reliability. Int...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,597 Views
22 Pages

2 September 2025

The optimal scheduling of vehicles at signal-free intersections under the connected and automated vehicle (CAV) environment has become a research hotspot in the intelligent transportation field. However, existing studies often oversimplify the inters...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: Trends, Applications and Security Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,808 Views
15 Pages

18 September 2017

With the rapid growth of thermostatically controlled loads, active power fluctuation and peak demand growth within an autonomous micro-grid become serious problems. This paper tries to suppress power fluctuation and shave peak demand for a micro-grid...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,581 Views
25 Pages

27 March 2025

With the increasing predominance of public cloud computing, managing the cost of usage for end users has become vital in importance. Task scheduling has emerged as an important target of research in this area. The present work considers the problem o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,578 Views
19 Pages

10 October 2022

Symbolic execution is well known as a dynamic vulnerability discovery technique. Its greatest advantage is the capability to analyze the execution information of the program and to explore the path in the program deterministically. This is a more acc...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,181 Views
31 Pages

25 July 2025

Emergency material scheduling (EMS) is a core component of post-disaster emergency response, with its efficiency directly impacting rescue effectiveness and the satisfaction of affected populations. However, due to severe road damage, limited availab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,244 Views
32 Pages

14 February 2026

Energy-aware distributed manufacturing has become a key focus in modern production systems due to the growing demand for sustainable and efficient operations. This study investigates the energy-aware distributed flexible job shop scheduling problem w...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Enabled Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
164 Views
30 Pages

20 October 2026

Multi-robot disaster-response task allocation requires balancing functional matching, task value, and execution efficiency. This study proposes an execution-aware heterogeneous dynamic-priority scheduling framework (HDPS) that connects interpretable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
219 Views
26 Pages

27 September 2026

The metering verification center of Yunnan Power Grid processes dynamically arriving batches of single-phase and three-phase smart meters, low-voltage current transformers, and collection terminals through multi-operation test chains on six automated...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,668 Views
14 Pages

Optimizing Task Execution: The Impact of Dynamic Time Quantum and Priorities on Round Robin Scheduling

  • Mansoor Iqbal,
  • Zahid Ullah,
  • Izaz Ahmad Khan,
  • Sheraz Aslam and ,
  • Haris Shaheer,
  • Mujtaba Humayon,
  • Muhammad Asjad Salahuddin and
  • Adeel Mehmood
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Task scheduling algorithms are crucial for optimizing the utilization of computing resources. This work proposes a unique approach for improving task execution in real-time systems using an enhanced Round Robin scheduling algorithm variant incorporat...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,016 Views
28 Pages

12 December 2025

This paper addresses the flexible job-shop scheduling problem with multiple time factors—namely, transportation time and setup time—as well as job priorities (referred to as FJSP-JPC-TST). An optimization model is established with the obj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,775 Views
28 Pages

30 May 2024

Mission scheduling is an essential function of the management control of remote-sensing satellite application systems. With the continuous development of remote-sensing satellite applications, mission scheduling faces significant challenges. Existing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Adaptive Control, 3rd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,555 Views
20 Pages

5 August 2019

The spectral efficiency of wireless networks can be significantly improved by exploiting spatial multiplexing techniques known as multi-user MIMO. These techniques enable the allocation of multiple users to the same time-frequency block, thus reducin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,028 Views
22 Pages

Performance and Energy Consumption Analysis for UWSNs with Priority Scheduling Based on Access Probability and Wakeup Threshold

  • Ning Li,
  • Zhiyu Xiang,
  • Liang Feng,
  • Zhiqiang Gao and ,
  • Jiaqi Liu and
  • Haitao Gu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 January 2025

As advancements in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology unfold, the role of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is becoming increasingly pivotal. However, the high energy consumption in these networks can significantly reduce their...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,825 Views
24 Pages

1 September 2019

In recent years, with the support of new information technology and national policies, cloud manufacturing (CMfg) has developed rapidly in China. About CMfg, scholars have conducted extensive and in-depth research, among which multi-objective service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,073 Views
35 Pages

4 February 2026

Quality inspection is a crucial step in ensuring product conformity and avoiding rework waste, while job priority constraints are prevalent in the production of complex products with assembly structures. This paper presents a modeling and solution fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,007 Views
23 Pages

A Dynamic TDMA Scheduling Strategy for MANETs Based on Service Priority

  • Yufeng Ye,
  • Xiangyin Zhang,
  • Lanfeng Xie and
  • Kaiyu Qin

16 December 2020

Physical resource allocation strategy is a key factor affecting the performance of a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), which serves as a network model widely used in the sensor and detection field. For various perceived service information, it is signif...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,498 Views
27 Pages

Dynamic Priority Real-Time Scheduling on Power Asymmetric Multicore Processors

  • Basharat Mahmood,
  • Naveed Ahmad,
  • Majid Iqbal Khan and
  • Adnan Akhunzada

13 August 2021

The use of real-time systems is growing at an increasing rate. This raises the power efficiency as the main challenge for system designers. Power asymmetric multicore processors provide a power-efficient platform for building complex real-time system...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,845 Views
16 Pages

15 February 2024

The problem of multiple DAGs sharing satellite constellation resources has gradually attracted widespread attention. Due to the limited computing resources and energy consumption of satellite networks, it is necessary to formulate a reasonable multi-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging and New Technologies in Mobile Edge Computing Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,412 Views
30 Pages

Priority-Aware Multi-Objective Task Scheduling in Fog Computing Using Simulated Annealing

  • S. Sudheer Mangalampalli,
  • Pillareddy Vamsheedhar Reddy,
  • Ganesh Reddy Karri,
  • Gayathri Tippani and
  • Harini Kota

15 September 2025

The number of IoT devices has been increasing at a rapid rate, and the advent of information-intensive Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT) applications has placed serious challenges on computing infrastructure, especially for latency, energy efficie...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,593 Views
18 Pages

1 April 2020

As the limitation of energy consumption of real-time embedded systems becomes more and more strict, it has been difficult to ignore the time overhead and energy consumption of context switches for fixed-priority tasks with preemption scheduling (FPP)...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,669 Views
18 Pages

Micro-ROS is widely used to bridge the performance gap between resource-constrained microcontrollers and powerful computing devices in ROS-based robotic applications. After modeling the callback scheduling module and the communication module in micro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Embedded Systems: Fundamentals, Design and Practical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
176 Views
33 Pages

Dual-Timescale Robust Rolling Optimal Scheduling of Microgrid Considering Regulation Priority

  • Dongxue Sun,
  • Mengqing Song,
  • Jingshan Mo,
  • Yu Zhao and ,
  • Zhiwei Zhang,
  • Binwei Liu and
  • Haikun Xiao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 October 2026

To address the power balance and economic operation issues of microgrids with high-penetration renewable energy, this paper explores the synergistic regulation potential of combined heat and power, carbon capture, and power-to-gas, and proposes a mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Energy Management Systems and Power Electronic Solutions for the Next-Generation Smart Grid)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,369 Views
23 Pages

A Space Telescope Scheduling Approach Combining Observation Priority Coding with Problem Decomposition Strategies

  • Kaiyuan Zhang,
  • Bao-Lin Ye,
  • Xiaoyun Xia,
  • Zijia Wang and ,
  • Xianchao Zhang and
  • Hai Jiang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 November 2024

With the increasing number of space debris, the demand for telescopes to observe space debris is also constantly increasing. The telescope observation scheduling problem requires algorithms to schedule telescopes to maximize observation value within...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms and Designs for Engineering Applications: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
642 Views
30 Pages

12 September 2026

Laser weeding offers significant advantages over conventional weed control methods; however, its practical deployment in maize fields remains challenging due to dynamic target variations, imprecise weed localization, and inefficient laser execution....

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
385 Views
31 Pages

To address the strong constraints, multiple objectives, and high dynamism of space telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) resource scheduling in flight-type launch scenarios, this study proposes a dynamic scheduling approach that integrates prio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enhanced Guidance, Navigation, and Control for High-Precision Space Missions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,115 Views
21 Pages

5 April 2019

With the development of wireless communication technology, wireless body area networks (WBANs) have become a fundamental support tool in medical applications. In a real hospital scenario, however, the interference between wireless medical devices and...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,533 Views
15 Pages

Dynamic Multi-Product Integrated Scheduling Algorithm with Urgent Delivery Date

  • Jianing Guo,
  • Dadong Wang,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Zhiqiang Xie and ,
  • Ming Sun and
  • Zhenjiang Tan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 February 2025

For the existing multi-product integrated scheduling algorithm considering the delivery date, the inability to fully consider the processing order of multiple products and the potential scheduling conflicts in the processing process causes problems s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,499 Views
26 Pages

24 February 2025

Priority in task scheduling and resource allocation for cloud computing has attracted significant attention from the research community. However, traditional scheduling algorithms often lack the ability to differentiate between tasks with varying lev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge and Fog Computing for Internet of Things Systems (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,430 Views
11 Pages

31 July 2019

A timing constraint and a high level of reliability are the fundamental requirements for designing hard real-time systems. To support both requirements, the N modular redundancy (NMR) technique as a fault-tolerant real-time scheduling has been propos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
648 Views
22 Pages

Multi-runway sequencing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at temporary disaster relief aerodromes presents a priority-heterogeneous scheduling problem under class-asymmetric wake turbulence constraints. We formulate this as a priority-weighted Marko...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
369 Views
24 Pages

14 May 2026

Fixed-priority schedulability analysis for uniprocessor real-time systems is computationally difficult, and exact Rate Monotonic (RM) analysis is weakly NP-complete. This paper develops an exact lattice-theoretic formulation for the family of weighte...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,521 Views
26 Pages

1 February 2019

A challenge in the design of cyber-physical systems is to integrate the scheduling of tasks of different criticality, while still providing service guarantees for the higher critical tasks in the case of resource-shortages caused by faults. While sta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Directions Forward for Dealing with the Complexity of Future Smart Cyber–Physical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
14,367 Views
21 Pages

20 October 2017

This paper presents a novel approach for providing a mobile battery swapping service for electric vehicles (EVs) that is provided by a mobile battery swapping van. This battery swapping van can carry many fully charged batteries and drive up to an EV...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Battery Energy Storage Applications in Smart Grid)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,347 Views
15 Pages

Distribution System Service Restoration Using Electric Vehicles

  • Swapna Ganapaneni,
  • Srinivasa Varma Pinni,
  • Ch. Rami Reddy,
  • Flah Aymen and ,
  • Mohammed Alqarni,
  • Basem Alamri and
  • Habib Kraiem
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 April 2022

Nowadays the utilization of Electric Vehicles (EVs) has greatly increased. They are attaining greater attention due to their impacts on the grid at the distribution level. However, due to the increased need for electricity, EVs are also used to serve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancement in Renewable Energy Technologies and Smart Grid)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,174 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Q-Learning-Based Sensor-Scheduling Algorithm for Multi-Target Tracking

  • Zhiyi Qu,
  • Xue Zhao,
  • Huihui Xu,
  • Hongying Tang and ,
  • Jiang Wang and
  • Baoqing Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 September 2022

Target tracking is an essential issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Compared with single-target tracking, how to guarantee the performance of multi-target tracking is more challenging because the system needs to balance the tracking resource fo...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
661 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Feature Incremental Scheduling for TSN Cyclic Queuing and Forwarding via a Triple-Mode Cooperative Optimizer

  • Jianning Zhan,
  • Hangu Zhang,
  • Changsheng Chen,
  • Wentao Zhang and ,
  • Chao Fan,
  • Xu Han and
  • Shizhuang Deng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) with Cyclic Queuing and Forwarding (CQF) is a critical mechanism for ensuring deterministic forwarding. However, existing incremental schedulers typically rely on single-dimensional heuristics, which fail to address th...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,221 Views
26 Pages

Two-Layer Robust Optimization Scheduling Strategy for Active Distribution Network Considering Electricity-Carbon Coupling

  • Yiteng Xu,
  • Chenxing Yang,
  • Zijie Liu,
  • Yaxian Zheng and ,
  • Yuechi Liu and
  • Haiteng Han
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Under the guidance of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, the power industry is transitioning toward environmentally friendly practices. With the increasing integration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) and the enhanced self-regu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,334 Views
15 Pages

25 December 2019

The time resource management of phased-array radars is the key to fulfilling their performance, such as how phased-array radar can efficiently and reasonably schedule tasks under limited resources. Therefore, this paper proposes a task scheduling alg...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,297 Views
22 Pages

10 March 2026

The paper explores an advanced single-server M/G/1 retrial queueing model that employs a push-out service with two unique classes of customers, i.e., transient (priority) customers and recurrent customers. The arrivals of customers are Poisson proces...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)

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