To meet a real-time deadline, timely and predictable access to the channel is paramount.
The ad hoc network together with the real-time constraints requires a decentralized predictable MAC method capable of meeting real-time deadlines.
To meet real-time deadlines, the MAC scheme must be predictable so that it can provide some sort of finite channel access delay,, to guarantee that communication tasks meet their deadlines, that is, the MAC scheme must be deterministic ( is finite).
The Washington Attorney General, Christine O. Gregoire, who negotiated cleanup deadlines, said in an interview that delays had been predictable because of "bad business decisions" by the Energy Department.
Communicating real-time messages does not necessarily require a high transmission rate or a low delay, but it does require a predictable behavior such that the message is delivered before the deadline with the requested error probability.
A BBC Music critic, however, deemed the track, along with "Deadlines & Diets" and "I Say a Prayer for You", an "afairly predictable mix of well-produced tunes covering the various pop styles and themes".
It was predictable, all the same, that these talks should grind on after missing an April 30th deadline, set by the African Union, which was hosting this seventh round of negotiations since 2004.
