Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada June 2-4, 1999

Contains papers from a June 1999 symposium, in sections on scheduling, languages and timing constraints, databases and operating systems, real-time Windows NT, real-time middleware, real-time communication, quality of service, and case studies. Subjects include design and performance of a real-time I/O subsystem, analyzing multimedia traffic in real-time ATM networks, general purpose architecture for real-time feedback control in nuclear fusion experiments, and quality of service optimization with discrete QoS options. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)