Maryline Chetto currently serves as Professor at the University of Nantes, France. She is a member of the IRCCyN (Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cyberne´tique de Nantes), within the 'Real-Time Systems' research team. She received her Masters in Control Engineering at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France. Her research areas include Real-Time Computing in general, and more particularly, scheduling, energy management, operating systems and fault-tolerance.Audrey Quedet is Associate Professor at the University of Nantes, Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Nantes and Member of the IRCCyN (Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernetique de Nantes). She received her PhD in Automation and Applied Computer Science whilst contributing in the Real-Time Systems team, IRCCyN. Her research interests surround Real-Time Computing in general, including scheduling, synchronization mechanisms, energy management and Linux-based operating systems