A synthetic workload for a distributed real-time system

Real-Time Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-18

  Kiskis, Daniel L ^a   Shin, Kang G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PERFORMANCE;

SYNTHETIC WORKLOAD; SYNTHETIC WORKLOAD GENERATOR; SYNTHETIC WORKLOAD SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030194839     PISSN: 09226443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00365518     Document Type: Article

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