Table 1: Real-Time CORBA features
| Design Challenge | Example from Application | Real-time CORBA Feature |
| Supporting thread pools effectively | The base station server must have sufficient threads for all its priority levels | Use RT CORBA thread pools to preallocate server resources |
| Buffering client requests | The base station server may need to buffer requests to handle "bursty" client traffic | Thread pool memory buffering mechanisms |
| Prevent exhaustion of threads by low priority requests | If drones send many low-priority requests to a base station server, it may run out of threads in its thread pool, so that no threads are available to process high-priority requests | Partition thread pool into subsets, which are called lanes; each lane has a different priority |
| Synchronizing operations consistently | The ORB and application must use the same type of synchronizer to avoid priority inversions | Use RTCORBA::Mutex and the ORB's mutex factory interface |
