Reliable real-time communication in cooperative mobile applications

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 166-180

  Nett, Edgar ^a   Schemmer, Stefan ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed algorithms; Fault tolerant real time systems; Mobile computing; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MULTICASTING; RELIABILITY; SCHEDULING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE SYSTEMS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037325559     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2003.1176984     Document Type: Article

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