The Timely Computing Base and its Future Trends
Pedro Martins, Paulo Verı́ssimo · 2002
Future mobile applications with real-time requirements will demand solutions that traditional real-time approaches might not be able to fulfill. The emergence of new partial synchrony models, such as the Timely Computing Base (TCB) model, may provide the answers we are looking for. More than a framework to build applications, the Timely Computing Base is an adequate model to reason about timeliness issues when designing applications for mobile environments. In this paper we overview the current state of the art with respect to the TCB and we discuss some future trends of the Timely Computing Base towards its implementation in mobile computing. 1