Clock synchronization in distributed real-time systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special Issue on Real-Time Systems
A new fault-tolerant algorithm for clock synchronization
Information and Computation
The Totem single-ring ordering and membership protocol
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Communications of the ACM
A real-time medium access control protocol for ad hoc wireless local area networks
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Kollisionsvermeidung mobiler autonomer Roboter durch koordinierte sensorgeführte Manöver
Autonome Mobile Systeme 1996, 12. Fachgespräch
RTCAST: lightweight multicast for real-time process groups
RTAS '96 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '96)
Continuous Clock Synchronization in Wireless Real-Time Applications
SRDS '00 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Reliable Computing Over Mobile Networks
FTDCS '95 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Clock synchronization for wireless local area networks
Euromicro-RTS'00 Proceedings of the 12th Euromicro conference on Real-time systems
An architectural framework and a middleware for cooperating smart components
Proceedings of the 1st conference on Computing frontiers
An architecture to support cooperating mobile embedded systems
Proceedings of the 1st conference on Computing frontiers
Robust scheduling in team-robotics
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Parallel and distributed real-time systems
Building Reliable Mobile Applications with Space-Elastic Adaptation
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Gathering two stateless mobile robots using very inaccurate compasses in finite time
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Robot communication and coordination
Software—Practice & Experience
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Embedded systems are expected to provide increasingly complex and safety-critical services that will, sooner or later, require the cooperation of several such systems for their fulfillment. In particular, coordinating the access to shared physical and information technological resources will become a general problem. Examples are mobile robots in industrial automation or car-to-car coordination for future traffic control applications. In such applications, cooperation is subject to strong real-time and reliability requirements. In this paper, we present an architecture that allows autonomous mobile systems to schedule shared resources in real-time using their own wireless distributed infrastructure. In this architecture, there is a clear separation between the application-specific scheduling part and the application independent communication part that constitutes the real-time and reliability hardcore of the system. The latter provides clock synchronization, real-time atomic multicast, and real-time group membership based on an IEEE 802.11 Standard wireless LAN. An application prototype shows how the architecture can be used in future mobile cooperative applications.