RTDroid: A Design for Real-Time Android

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2564-2584

  Yan, Yin ^a   Cosgrove, Shaun ^a   Anand, Varun ^a   Kulkarni, Amit ^a   Konduri, Sree Harsha ^a   Ko, Steven Y ^a   Ziarek, Lukasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Android; mobile systems; Real time systems; smartphones

Indexed keywords

ANDROID (OPERATING SYSTEM); INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; SCHEDULING; SMARTPHONES;

ANDROID; ANDROID APPLICATIONS; EVALUATION RESULTS; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES; MOBILE SYSTEMS; PROGRAMMING MODELS; REAL-TIME GARBAGE COLLECTION; REAL-TIME SCHEDULING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENTS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 84985943014     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2015.2499187     Document Type: Article

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