Fixed priorities or EDF for distributed real-time systems?
Juan M. Rivas, J. Javier Gutiérrez, Michael González Harbour · ACM SIGBED Review · 2013
Although fixed priority (FP) scheduling is the most popular online scheduling policy in industrial environments, the earliest deadline first (EDF) policy is starting to get more attention, given its benefits in terms of increased resource usage. A comparison between FP and EDF under several aspects is presented in [1] for single-processor systems, showing that FP does not always have the commonly attributed advantages over EDF.