From the reviews of the third edition: "The book is a classic that results from the author's two decades of teaching and research activities. The present third edition is extended by many meaningful issues ... additional protocols, new concepts, exercises, etc. ... this is a useful, serious book that collects and uniformly presents and compares existing techniques for design and implementation of real-time systems. ... I recommend this book, not only as a textbook for students, but also as a handbook for researchers and practitioners working in this field." (Fevzi Belli, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1246, 2012) "This book describes and analyzes many algorithms for scheduling such tasks in real-time systems. ... The book can be used as an undergraduate- and graduate-level textbook for courses involving real-time systems. The initial chapters are a good introduction to real-time systems for beginners. Professionals and researchers working with real-time systems will find the scheduling algorithms useful." (Maulik A. Dave, ACM Computing Reviews, July, 2012)