A Network Time Interface M-Module for distributing GPS-time over LANs

Real-Time Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-57

  Schmid, Ulrich ^a   Klasek, Johann ^a   Mandl, Thomas ^a   Nachtnebel, Herbert ^a   Cadek, Gerhard ^a   Kerö, Nikolaus ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; TIMING CIRCUITS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ETHERNET; NETWORK TIME INTERFACES (NTI);

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033640760     PISSN: 09226443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008150426963     Document Type: Article

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