Configurable middleware for distributed real-time systems with aperiodic and periodic tasks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 393-404

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

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Component middleware; Dynamic real time task allocation; Load balancing and admission control

Indexed keywords

ADMISSION CONTROL; COMPONENT MIDDLEWARE; CONFIGURABLE; CONFIGURATION MECHANISMS; DISTRIBUTED REAL TIME SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EVENT HANDLING; LOAD-BALANCING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERIODIC TASKS; PRIMARY CONTRIBUTION; REAL-TIME CORBA; REAL-TIME TASKS; SOFTWARE PLATFORMS; TIME CONSTRAINTS; TIMING CONSTRAINTS;

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); MIDDLEWARE; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING CIRCUITS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 76749164346     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2009.67     Document Type: Article

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