What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Computer network
His primary scientific interests are in Distributed computing, Scheduling, Dynamic priority scheduling, Real-time computing and Earliest deadline first scheduling.
His studies in Distributed computing integrate themes in fields like Priority inheritance, Priority inversion, Deadline-monotonic scheduling and Operations research.
His work carried out in the field of Scheduling brings together such families of science as Multiprocessing and Jitter.
The various areas that he examines in his Dynamic priority scheduling study include Systems architecture and Fair-share scheduling.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Second-generation programming language, Programming language, Real-time operating system and Software engineering in addition to Real-time computing.
Within one scientific family, Alan Burns focuses on topics pertaining to Parallel computing under Earliest deadline first scheduling, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Worst-case execution time.
His most cited work include:
- Applying new scheduling theory to static priority pre-emptive scheduling (949 citations)
- A survey of hard real-time scheduling for multiprocessor systems (682 citations)
- Controller Area Network (CAN) schedulability analysis: Refuted, revisited and revised (634 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Alan Burns focuses on Distributed computing, Scheduling, Real-time computing, Programming language and Dynamic priority scheduling.
His Distributed computing research incorporates themes from Shared resource, Mixed criticality, Protocol and Response time.
His Scheduling research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Multiprocessing and Real-time operating system.
His studies deal with areas such as Systems design and Correctness as well as Real-time computing.
His is doing research in Earliest deadline first scheduling, Rate-monotonic scheduling, Fixed-priority pre-emptive scheduling and Deadline-monotonic scheduling, both of which are found in Dynamic priority scheduling.
His research integrates issues of Operations research and Parallel computing in his study of Earliest deadline first scheduling.
He most often published in these fields:
- Distributed computing (34.95%)
- Scheduling (29.23%)
- Real-time computing (24.40%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2013-2021)?
- Distributed computing (34.95%)
- Mixed criticality (6.15%)
- Scheduling (29.23%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Alan Burns mainly focuses on Distributed computing, Mixed criticality, Scheduling, Multiprocessing and Dynamic priority scheduling.
His study in Distributed computing is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Shared resource, Resource, Mixed criticality scheduling, Task and Cyber-physical system.
He combines subjects such as Fault tolerance, Task analysis and Preemption with his study of Scheduling.
Rate-monotonic scheduling, Earliest deadline first scheduling and Deadline-monotonic scheduling are the core of his Dynamic priority scheduling study.
Earliest deadline first scheduling is closely attributed to Real-time computing in his research.
In his research on the topic of Deadline-monotonic scheduling, Priority inheritance is strongly related with Priority ceiling protocol.
Between 2013 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Mixed Criticality Systems - A Review (283 citations)
- A Survey of Research into Mixed Criticality Systems (89 citations)
- A Wormhole NoC Protocol for Mixed Criticality Systems (54 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Operating system
- Programming language
- Computer network
Alan Burns spends much of his time researching Distributed computing, Mixed criticality, Scheduling, Dynamic priority scheduling and Earliest deadline first scheduling.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Schedule, Multiprocessing, Shared resource, Resource and Cyber-physical system.
Alan Burns has included themes like Embedded system, Network on a chip and Robustness in his Mixed criticality study.
His Dynamic priority scheduling research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Uniprocessor system and Real-time computing.
His research in Real-time computing intersects with topics in Concurrency control, Mutual exclusion and Preemption.
His Deadline-monotonic scheduling research integrates issues from Priority inversion, Priority ceiling protocol and Parallel computing.
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