Decentralized Computing Technology for Fault-Tolerant, Survivable C3I systems. Volume 3. System/Subsystem Specification

Abstract

Alpha is an operating system for the mission critical integration and operation of large, complex, distributed, real time systems. Such systems are becoming increasingly common in both military (e.g., BM/C3, combat platform management) and industrial factory and plant automation (e.g., automobile manufacturing) contexts. They differ substantially from the better-known timesharing systems, numerically-oriented supercomputers, and networks of personal workstations. More surprisingly, they also depart significantly from traditional real time systems, which are predominately for low-level periodic sampled data monitoring and control.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA232291

Entities

People

  • E. D. Jensen
  • Edward J. Burke
  • J. D. Northcutt
  • James G. Hanko
  • Raymond K. Clark

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Command And Control
  • Communication Channels
  • Communications Protocols
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Information Science
  • Local Area Networks
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Scheduling (Production)

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Software Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control