WepresentavariantofPfairscheduling,whichwecallearly-releasefair(ERfair)scheduling.LikeconventionalPfairscheduling,ERfairschedulingalgorithmscanbeappliedtooptimallyscheduleperiodictasksonamultiprocessorsysteminpolynomialtime.However,ERfairschedulingdiersfromPfairschedulinginthatitis