A Non-Preemptive Two-Class M/M/1 System with Prioritized Real-Time Jobs under Earliest-Deadline-First Policy

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Abstract

This paper introduces an analytical method for approximating the performance of a two-class priority M/M/1 system. The system is fully non-preemptive. More specifically, the prioritized class-1 jobs are real-time and served with the non-preemptive earliest-deadline-first (EDF) policy, but despite their priority cannot preempt any non real-time class-2 job. The waiting class-2 jobs can only be served from the time instant that no class-1 job is in the system. The service discipline of the class-2 jobs is FCFS. The required mean service times may depend on the class of the jobs. The real-time jobs have exponentially distributed relative deadlines until the end of service. The system is approximated by a Markovian model in the long run, which can be solved numerically using standard Markovian solution techniques. The performance measures of the system are the loss probability of the class-1 jobs and the mean sojourn (waiting) time of the class-2 jobs. Comparing the numerical and simulation results, we find that the existing errors are relatively small.

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