The Timed-Token Protocol for Real-Time Communications

Computer

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 35-41

  Malcolm, Nicholas ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ASYNCHRONOUS MESSAGES; DATA HIGHWAYS; SYNCHRONOUS BANDWIDTH; TIMED PROTOCOLS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0028194029     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2.248878     Document Type: Article

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