Recovering from distributable thread failures with assured timeliness in real-time distributed systems

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 267-276

  Curley, Edward ^a   Anderson, Jonathan ^a   Ravindran, Binoy ^a   Jensen, E D ^b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MIDDLEWARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTABLE THREADS; FAILURE-EXCEPTION NOTIFICATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 36348930939     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SRDS.2006.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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