Rate-monotonic Scheduling

In computer science, rate-monotonic scheduling is a scheduling algorithm used in real-time operating systems with a static-priority scheduling class. The static priorities are assigned on the basis of the cycle duration of the job: the shorter the cycle duration is, the higher is the job's priority.

These operating systems are generally preemptive and have deterministic guarantees with regard to response times. Rate monotonic analysis is used in conjunction with those systems to provide scheduling guarantees for a particular application.