A Real-Time Scheduling Based Framework for Traffic Coordination Systems

Abstract

With recent advances in computer and communication technologies, computing systems find applications in large-scale control systems, including vehicular traffic control systems. An interesting observation for traffic control systems is that the coordination problem at intersections can be mapped to that of scheduling jobs in real-time systems. In this paper, we develop a real-time scheduling based framework that models mobile entities as real-time jobs and the shared regions along their respective paths as processors. This is used to coordinate the movement of vehicles along intersecting roads using clock-driven real-time scheduling techniques.