Many real-time applications are designed to work in different operating modes each characterized by different functionality and resource demands. With each mode change, resource d...
Nikolay Stoimenov, Lothar Thiele, Luca Santinelli,...
Standards-based COTS middleware has been shown to be effective in meeting a range of functional and QoS requirements for distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. Each sta...
Christopher D. Gill, Venkita Subramonian, Jeff Par...
Simple in-network data aggregation (or fusion) techniques for sensor networks have been the focus of several recent research efforts, but they are insufficient to support advance...
Rajnish Kumar, Matthew Wolenetz, Bikash Agarwalla,...
This paper describes a context information acquisition framework for a personal device that equips a variety of sensors. The framework captures context information about a user an...
Assigning an application’s fault-tolerance properties (e.g., replication style, checkpointing frequency) statically, and in an arbitrary manner, can lead to the application not ...