A subsystem of an air-traffic control system is defined to manage a queue of aircraft (AC) in an airport. The aircraft queue is managed by a process that responds to three types of requests:
- System boot used to start the system.
- Enqueue aircraft used to insert a new AC into the system.
- Dequeue aircraft used to remove an AC from the system.
AC’s have at least (but are not limited to having) the following properties:
- AC type: Passenger or Cargo
- AC size: Small or Large
The process that manages the queue of AC’s satisfies the following:
- There is no limit to the number of AC’s it can manage.
- Dequeue aircraft requests result in selection of one AC for removal such that:
a. Passenger AC’s have removal precedence over Cargo AC’s.
b. Large AC’s of a given type have removal precedence over Small AC’s of the same type.
c. Earlier enqueued AC’s of a given type and size have precedence over later enqueued AC’s of the same type and size.
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