Performance evaluation of a parallel pipeline computational model for Space-Time Adaptive Processing

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 137-160

  Liao, Wei Keng ^a   Choudhary, Alok ^a   Weiner, Donald ^b   Varshney, Pramod ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi threading; Parallel I O; Parallel pipeline model; Parallel processing; Performance evaluation; Space time adaptive processing

Indexed keywords

MULTI-THREADING; PARALLEL I/O; PARALLEL PIPELINE MODELS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

EID: 14844342661     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-005-0039-z     Document Type: Article

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