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Schedulability Envelope for Real-Time Radar Dwell Scheduling
December 2006 (vol. 55 no. 12)
pp. 1599-1613
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Chang-Gung Lee, Phil-Su Kang, Chi-Sheng Shih, Lui Sha, "Schedulability Envelope for Real-Time Radar Dwell Scheduling," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 1599-1613, December, 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TC.2006.205,
author = {Chang-Gung Lee and Phil-Su Kang and Chi-Sheng Shih and Lui Sha},
title = {Schedulability Envelope for Real-Time Radar Dwell Scheduling},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Computers},
volume = {55},
number = {12},
issn = {0018-9340},
year = {2006},
pages = {1599-1613},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TC.2006.205},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Computers
TI - Schedulability Envelope for Real-Time Radar Dwell Scheduling
IS - 12
SN - 0018-9340
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EPD - 1599-1613
A1 - Chang-Gung Lee,
A1 - Phil-Su Kang,
A1 - Chi-Sheng Shih,
A1 - Lui Sha,
PY - 2006
KW - Phased-array radar
KW - radar dwell
KW - real-time scheduling
KW - schedulability envelope
KW - finite-time guarantee
KW - online admission control.
VL - 55
JA - IEEE Transactions on Computers
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This paper proposes novel techniques for scheduling radar dwells in phased array radar systems. In order to handle complex physical characteristics such as dwell interleaving, transmitting duty cycle constraint, and energy constraint, we propose a notion of schedulability envelope. The schedulability envelope designed offline hides the details of complex radar dwell scheduling and provides a simple measure for the schedulability check. Using the schedulability envelope, the proposed technique can efficiently perform the admission control for dynamic target tracking tasks. The simulation results show that the proposed approach can significantly improve the system utilization by taking advantage of dwell interleaving while guaranteeing the schedulability and physical constraints.

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Index Terms:
Phased-array radar, radar dwell, real-time scheduling, schedulability envelope, finite-time guarantee, online admission control.
Citation:
Chang-Gung Lee, Phil-Su Kang, Chi-Sheng Shih, Lui Sha, "Schedulability Envelope for Real-Time Radar Dwell Scheduling," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 1599-1613, Dec. 2006, doi:10.1109/TC.2006.205
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