• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• v.2 no.5
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• pp.89-99
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• 1997

The application for real-time database systems must satisfy timing constraints. Typically the timing constraints are expressed in the form of deadlines which are represented by priorities to e used by schedulers. In any real-time applications, since the system maintains sensitive information to be shared by multiple users with different levels of security clearance, security is another important requirement. As more advanced database systems are being used in applications that need to support timeliness while managing sensitive information, protocols that satisfy both requirements need to be developed. In this appear, we proposed a new priority-driven secure multiversion locking (PSMVL) protocol for real-time secure database systems. The schedules produced by PSMVL are proven to e one-copy serializable. We have also shown tat the protocol eliminates covert channels and priority inversions. The details of the protocol, including the compatibility matrix and the version selection algorithms are presented. the results of the performance comparisons of our protocol with other protocols are described.