Concord: A control framework for distributed real-time systems

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1078-1090

  Karray, Fakhreddine ^c  

^a DALSA Corporation   (Canada)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive event channel; distributed framework; distributed systems; middleware; multirobot systems; real time CORBA; real time systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008060915     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2007.895967     Document Type: Article

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