Global positioning system timing criticality assessment - preliminary performance results

40th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Systems and Applications Meeting 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 485-505

  Carroll, James ^a   Montgomery, Kirk ^b  

^a VOLPE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b Symmetricom   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; CRITICALITY ANALYSIS; CRITICALITY ASSESSMENT; PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE RESULTS; SERVICE DISRUPTIONS; SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS; TIME AND FREQUENCIES; TIMING REQUIREMENTS;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; PLATINUM ALLOYS; RADIO NAVIGATION; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; TRACKING (POSITION);

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84867161478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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