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...
Abstract. Many real-time embedded systems involve a collection of independently executing event-driven code blocks, having hard real-time constraints. Portions of such codes when t...
Samarjit Chakraborty, Thomas Erlebach, Lothar Thie...
Coordinated behavior of mobile robots is an important emerging application area. Different coordinated behaviors can be achieved by assigning sets of control tasks, or strategies,...
Huan Li, John Sweeney, Krithi Ramamritham, Roderic...
We investigate whether asynchronous computational models and asynchronous algorithms can be considered for designing real-time distributed fault-tolerant systems. A priori, the lac...
Multimedia applications today constitute a significant fraction of the workload running on portable devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and MP3 players. However, the processors i...