%0 Conference Proceedings %T Time-Predictable Computing %+ Department of Computer Science %+ Institute of Computer Engineering [Vienna] %A Kirner, Raimund %A Puschner, Peter %< avec comité de lecture %( Lecture Notes in Computer Science %B 8th IFIP WG 10.2 International Workshop on Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems (SEUS) %C Waidhofen/Ybbs, Austria %Y Sang Lyul Min; Robert Pettit; Peter Puschner; Theo Ungerer %I Springer %3 Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems %V LNCS-6399 %P 23-34 %8 2010-10-13 %D 2010 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-16256-5_5 %Z Computer Science [cs]/Digital Libraries [cs.DL]Conference papers %X Real-time systems need to be time-predictable in order to prove the timeliness of all their time-critical responses. While this is a well-known fact, recent efforts of the community on concretizing the predictability of task timing have shown that there is no common agreement about what the term time-predictability exactly means. In this paper we propose a universal definition of time-predictability that combines the essence of different discussions about this term. This definition is then instantiated to concrete types of time-predictability, like worst-case execution time (WCET) predictability. Finally, we introduce the concept of a timing barrier as a mechanism for constructing time-predictable systems. %G English %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01055379/document %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01055379/file/paper.pdf %L hal-01055379 %U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01055379 %~ IFIP-LNCS %~ IFIP %~ IFIP-AICT %~ IFIP-LNCS-6399 %~ IFIP-TC %~ IFIP-TC10 %~ IFIP-2010 %~ IFIP-SEUS %~ IFIP-WG10-2