Enhancing the robustness of distributed real-time middleware via end-to-end utilization control

Proceedings - Real-Time Systems Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Wang, Xiaorui ^a   Lu, Chenyang ^a   Koutsoukos, Xenofon ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME AND EMBEDDED; FAULT TOLERANCE MECHANISMS; MULTIPLE PROCESSORS; OBJECT REQUEST BROKERS; PROCESSOR FAILURES; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE CONTENTION; UNPREDICTABLE ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; MIDDLEWARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 84879398219     PISSN: 10528725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RTSS.2005.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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