An efficient TDMA start-up and restart synchronization approach for distributed embedded systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 725-739

  Claesson, Vilgot ^a   Lönn, Henrik ^a   Suri, Neeraj ^a  

^a IEEE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

ACCESS SCHEMES; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT INITIAL SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOL;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 4344645898     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2004.29     Document Type: Article

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