Supporting time-sensitive applications on a commodity OS

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 36, Issue Special Issue, 2002, Pages 165-180

  Goel, Ashvin ^a   Abeni, Luca ^a   Krasic, Charles ^a   Snow, Jim ^a   Walpole, Jonathan ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

COMMODITY OPERATING SYSTEMS; HIGH-PRECISION; LOW OVERHEAD; RESPONSE SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES; SUPPORT TIME; SYSTEM LEVELS; TIME SENSITIVE APPLICATIONS;

LINUX;

EID: 84978426231     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/844128.844144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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