@CONFERENCE\{IMM1999-04628, author = "P. Pop and P. Eles and Z. Peng", title = "An Improved Scheduling Technique for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems", year = "1999", month = "sep", pages = "303--310", booktitle = "", volume = "", series = "", editor = "", publisher = "", organization = "", address = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/4628-full.html", abstract = "In this paper we present an improved scheduling technique for the synthesis of time-triggered embedded systems. Our system model captures both the flow of data and that of control. We have considered communication of data and conditions for a time-triggered protocol implementation that supports clock synchronization and mode changes. We have improved the quality of the schedules by introducing a new priority function that takes into consideration the communication protocol. Communication has been optimized through packaging messages into slots with a properly selected order and lengths. Several experiments and a reallife example demonstrate the efficiency of our approach." }