diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index a6458fb..5319e86 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ option(WARNINGS_ARE_ERRORS "Specify whether warnings should be treated as errors
 option(USE_AUTOMATIC_INITIALIZATION "Specify whether the MTAPI C++ interface, algorithms and dataflow should automatically intialize the MTAPI node if no explicit initialization is present" ON)
 option(BUILD_OPENCL_PLUGIN "Specify whether the MTAPI OpenCL plugin should be built" OFF)
 option(THREADING_ANALYSIS_MODE "Replaces lock-free synchronization constructs by mutex-based implementations to support threading analysis tools" OFF)
+option(HARD_REALTIME "Specify whether hard real-time scheduling should be activated" ON)
 
 ## LOCAL INSTALLATION OF SUBPROJECT BINARIES
 #
@@ -158,6 +159,10 @@ if(CUDA_FOUND)
   list(APPEND EXPECTED_EMBB_TEST_EXECUTABLES "embb_mtapi_cuda_c_test")
 endif()
 
+# Adding hard real-time support with slightly different scheduling
+if(HARD_REALTIME STREQUAL ON)
+  set(EMBB_HARD_REALTIME 1)
+endif()
 
 ## Copy test execution script to local binaries folder
 
diff --git a/base_c/include/embb/base/c/internal/cmake_config.h.in b/base_c/include/embb/base/c/internal/cmake_config.h.in
index 876ceed..2596d5f 100644
--- a/base_c/include/embb/base/c/internal/cmake_config.h.in
+++ b/base_c/include/embb/base/c/internal/cmake_config.h.in
@@ -59,6 +59,13 @@
 #cmakedefine EMBB_THREADING_ANALYSIS_MODE
 
 /**
+ * If defined, instead of the MTAPI round-robin work-stealing scheduling with
+ * local queues per priority, global edf is used for scheduling in order to
+ * guarantee hard real-time bounds.
+ */
+#cmakedefine EMBB_HARD_REALTIME
+
+/**
  * Version defines.
  */
 #define EMBB_BASE_VERSION_MAJOR ${EMBB_BASE_VERSION_MAJOR}