Flexible Envelope Request Notation (FERN)
Abstract
The following topics are presented in view graph form and include the following: scheduling application; the motivation for the Flexible Envelope Request Notation (FERN); characteristics of FERN; types of information needed in requests; where information is stored in requests; FERN structures; generic requests; resource availability for pooled resources; expressive notation; temporal constraints; time formats; changes to FERN; sample FERN requests; the temporal relationship between two steps; maximum activity length to limit step delays; alternative requests; the temporal relationship between two activities; and idle resource usage between steps.
- Publication:
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Space Network Control Conference on Resource Allocation Concepts and Approaches
- Pub Date:
- September 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991sncc.nasa..145Z
- Keywords:
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- Network Control;
- Planning;
- Programming Languages;
- Resource Allocation;
- Resources Management;
- Schedules;
- Scheduling;
- Communication Networks;
- Man Machine Systems;
- Space Communication;
- User Requirements;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking