Layered Scheduling: Toward Better Real-Time Lingua Franca

Author(s): Francesco Paladino, Erling Jellum, Efsane Soyer, and Edward A. Lee

Abstract
Lingua Franca is a programming paradigm that eases the development of distributed cyber-physical systems and ensures determinism. These systems are subject to stringent timing constraints, generally expressed as task deadlines, and meeting them requires real-time scheduling. This work presents a layered scheduling strategy for Lingua Franca for enhanced real-time performance that builds upon any priority-based operating system thread scheduler. The application designers need to specify only the application-specific deadlines, and the Lingua Franca runtime automatically converts them into appropriate priority values for the OS scheduler to obtain earliest deadline first scheduling.

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  Francesco Paladino, Erling Jellum, Efsane Soyer, and Edward A. Lee. (2025). Layered Scheduling: Toward Better Real-Time Lingua Franca. In IEEE Embedd. Syst. Letters, 17(2), 127-130.                      
                  
                  

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  Francesco Paladino, Erling Jellum, Efsane Soyer, and Edward A. Lee. "Layered Scheduling: Toward Better Real-Time Lingua Franca." 2025. IEEE Embedd. Syst. Letters, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 127-130.                      
                  
                  

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  Francesco Paladino, Erling Jellum, Efsane Soyer, and Edward A. Lee. "Layered Scheduling: Toward Better Real-Time Lingua Franca." 2025. In IEEE Embedd. Syst. Letters, vol. 17(2): 127-130.                      
                  
                  

• BibTeX
  

                      
  @article{PaladinoEtAl:25:Scheduling,
  	author = {Francesco Paladino, Erling Jellum, Efsane Soyer, and Edward A. Lee},
  	title = {Layered Scheduling: Toward Better Real-Time Lingua Franca},
  	journal = {IEEE Embedd. Syst. Letters},
  	volume = {17},
  	number = {2},
  	pages = {127-130},
  	month = {April},
  	year = {2025},
  	abstract = {Lingua Franca is a programming paradigm that eases the development of distributed cyber-physical systems and ensures determinism. These systems are subject to stringent timing constraints, generally expressed as task deadlines, and meeting them requires real-time scheduling. This work presents a layered scheduling strategy for Lingua Franca for enhanced real-time performance that builds upon any priority-based operating system thread scheduler. The application designers need to specify only the application-specific deadlines, and the Lingua Franca runtime automatically converts them into appropriate priority values for the OS scheduler to obtain earliest deadline first scheduling.},
  	URL = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10697337}}