A nonpreemptive real-time scheduler with recovery from transient faults and its implementation

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 752-767

  Mossé, Daniel ^a   Melhem, Rami ^a   Ghosh, Sunondo ^b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b I2 Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Operating system; Real time; Scheduling; Transient faults

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

TRANSIENT FAULTS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0043237511     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1223648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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