Scheduling distributed real-time tasks with minimum jitter

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 303-316

  Di Natale, Marco ^b   Stankovic, John A ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Jitter; Real time; Scheduling; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003283769     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.844344     Document Type: Article

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