Non-functional information transmission patterns for distributed real-time Java

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1409-1435

  Basanta Val, P ^a   Garcia Valls, M ^a   Estevez Ayres, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

DRSTJ; RT JRMP; RT RMI; RTSJ

Indexed keywords

ADMISSION TEST; DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME JAVAS; DRSTJ; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; NON-FUNCTIONAL; PRACTICAL ISSUES; PRIORITY-BASED SCHEDULING; PROPAGATION MODELS; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; REAL-TIME COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE; REAL-TIME SPECIFICATION FOR JAVAS; RT CORBA; RT-JRMP; RT-RMI; RTSJ;

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MIDDLEWARE; SPECIFICATIONS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052928727     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.1084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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