The duration of time for which each application locks each shared resource is critically important in composing multiple independently-developed applications upon a shared “open...
Wireless sensor networks have recently been suggested for many surveillance applications such as object monitoring, path protection, or area coverage. Since the sensors themselves...
Pfair scheduling, currently the only known way of optimally scheduling recurrent real-time tasks on multiprocessors, imposes certain requirements that may limit its practical impl...
The current literature offers two extremes of nonblocking software synchronization support for concurrent data structure design: intricate designs of specific structures based o...
In multicluster systems, and more generally, in grids, jobs may require co-allocation, i.e., the simultaneous allocation of resources such as processors and input files in multipl...