Garbage collector scheduling in dynamic, multiprocessor real-time systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 845-856

  Cho, Hyeonjoong ^a   Ravindran, Binoy ^b   Na, Chewoo ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Garbage collection; Multiprocessors; Real time; Scheduling; Time utility functions

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; GARBAGE COLLECTION; GARBAGE COLLECTORS; LOWER BOUNDS; MEMORY ALLOCATION; MULTIPROCESSORS; MUTATOR ACTIVITY; REAL TIME; REAL TIME SCHEDULING; SENSITIVITY TO VARIATIONS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; TIME/UTILITY FUNCTION TIME CONSTRAINTS; TIME/UTILITY FUNCTIONS; UPPER BOUND;

CONTROL THEORY; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; REFUSE COLLECTION; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME MEASUREMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 67349186254     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2009.20     Document Type: Article

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