Exact fault-sensitive feasibility analysis of real-time tasks

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1372-1386

  Aydin, Hakan ^a  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

Deadline driven systems; Fault tolerance; Processor demand analysis; Real time scheduling; Real time systems; Recovery blocks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FAULT TOLERANCE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

PROCESSOR DEMAND ANALYSIS; RECOVERY BLOCK;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548768215     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.70739     Document Type: Article

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