Title: Real-Time Mutable Broadcast Disks
Authors: Sanjoy Baruah and Azer Bestavros
Date: May 5, 1997
Abstract:

There is an increased interest in using broadcast disks to support
mobile access to real-time databases.  However, previous work has only
considered the design of real-time immutable broadcast disks, the
contents of which do not change over time.  This paper considers the
design of programs for real-time mutable broadcast disks --- broadcast
disks whose contents are occasionally updated.  Recent
scheduling-theoretic results relating to pinwheel scheduling and pfair
scheduling are used to design algorithms for the efficient generation
of real-time mutable broadcast disk programs.