Real-time performance and middleware for multiprocessor and multicore Linux platforms

Proceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, RTCSA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 437-446

  Zhang, Yuanfang ^a   Gill, Christopher ^a   Lu, Chenyang ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi threading; Multiprocessor and multicore Linux; Performance evaluation; Real time middleware

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; LINUX PLATFORM; MULTI CORE; MULTI-THREADING; OBJECT REQUEST BROKERS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; REAL-TIME CORBA; SOFT REAL TIME; STATE OF THE ART; TIMING CONSTRAINTS;

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 72349086763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RTCSA.2009.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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