Title: Pinwheel Scheduling for Fault-tolerant Broadcast Disks in Real-time Database Systems 
Author: Sanjoy Baruah (U of Vermont) and Azer Bestavros (Boston U)
Date: August 22, 1996

Abstract:

The design of programs for broadcast disks which incorporate real-time
and fault-tolerance requirements is considered.  A generalized model
for real-time fault-tolerant broadcast disks is defined.  It is shown
that designing programs for broadcast disks specified in this model is
closely related to the scheduling of pinwheel task systems.  Some new
results in pinwheel scheduling theory are derived, which facilitate
the efficient generation of real-time fault-tolerant broadcast disk
programs.