Large complex systems (such as Enterprise systems) are often composed of several interacting, independent components. In many such systems, although the behavior of the constituen...
—Collaborative mechanisms between services are a crucial aspect in the recent development of pervasive computing systems based on the paradigm of service-oriented architecture. C...
Obtaining consistent bandwidth with predictable latency from disk-based storage systems has proven difficult due to the storage system’s inability to understand Quality of Serv...
Time-critical multi-processor systems require guaranteed services in terms of throughput, bandwidth etc. in order to comply to hard real-time constraints. However, guaranteedservi...
Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque, Gereon Weiss, Jö...
To achieve better throughput, many hard drive manufacturers use internal queues and scheduling to take advantage of vendor-specific characteristics and knowledge. While this tren...
Mark J. Stanovich, Theodore P. Baker, An-I Andy Wa...