Experimental evaluation of the fail-silent behavior of a distributed real-time run-time support built from COTS components

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 304-313

  Chevochot, Pascal ^a   Puaut, Isabelle ^a  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) COMPONENTS;

ERROR DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035789554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2001.941415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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