A novel fault-tolerant scheduling algorithm for precedence constrained tasks in real-time heterogeneous systems

Parallel Computing

Volumn 32, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 331-356

  Qin, Xiao ^a   Jiang, Hong ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Heterogeneous systems; Off line scheduling; Performability; Precedence constraints; Real time tasks; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RELIABILITY; SCHEDULING;

HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; OFF-LINE SCHEDULING; PERFORMABILITY; PRECEDENCE CONSTRAINTS; REAL-TIME TASKS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 33747806256     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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