Low-latency time-portable real-time programming with Exotasks

Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Auerbach, Joshua ^a   Bacon, David F ^a   Iercan, Daniel ^a   Kirsch, Christoph M ^a   Rajan, V T ^a   Röck, Harald ^a   Trummer, Rainer ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Real time scheduling; Time portability; UAVs; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; JITTER; LINGUISTICS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REFUSE COLLECTION; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SCHEDULING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WASTE DISPOSAL; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AUDIO APPLICATIONS; DETERMINISTIC BEHAVIORS; GARBAGE COLLECTIONS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARES; HARDWARE PLATFORMS; JAVA APPLICATIONS; JAVA LANGUAGES; JAVA PROGRAMMING; JAVA SYSTEMS; JAVA THREADS; LOGICAL EXECUTION TIME; LOW LATENCIES; PLUGGABLE SCHEDULERS; REAL-TIME PROGRAMMING; REAL-TIME SCHEDULING; ROTOR MODELS; TIME PORTABILITY; UAVS; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 60449083282     PISSN: 15399087     EISSN: 15583465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1457255.1457262     Document Type: Article

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