Boosting the robustness of controller area networks: CANcentrate and ReCANcentrate

Computer

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 66-73

  Barranco, Manuel ^a   Proenza, Julián ^a   Almeida, Luís ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Buses; CAN protocol; Controller area networks; Downlink; Embedded systems; Error checking; Logic gates; Monitoring; Network topology; Real time distributed systems; Robustness; Systems engineering; Topology; Transceivers

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649866317     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2009.145     Document Type: Article

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