Although the precise request times for executions of … two consecutive requests min_a is known in advance. … worst case computation time required by process a, … request is made for process a and the … [p. 72, can replace with a periodic process whose deadline d_p satisfies d_a >= d_p >= c_a and its period prd_p <= min(d_a- d_p+1, min_a)].
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