An experimental evaluation of the REE SIFT environment for spaceborne applications

Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 585-594

  Whisnant, K ^a   Iyer, R K ^a   Jones, P ^a   Some, R ^b   Rennels, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR INJECTION; MARS ROVER MISSION; REMOTE EXPLORATION AND EXPERIMENTATION PROJECT; SOFTWARE-IMPLEMENTED FAULT TOLERANCE ENVIRONMENT; SPACEBORNE APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ERROR DETECTION; MOBILE ROBOTS; PLANETS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACECRAFT;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036928463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2002.1029004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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