Many mission-critical distributed real-time applications must handle aperiodic tasks with end-to-end deadlines. However, existing middleware (e.g., RT-CORBA) lacks schedulability ...
Yuanfang Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Christopher D. Gill, ...
This paper presents a time division multiple access medium access control protocol for wireless sensor / actuator networks implemented with a contention-free message scheduler. A ...
Thomas W. Carley, Moussa A. Ba, Rajeev Barua, Davi...
Security in collaborative groups is an active research topic and has been recognized by many organizations in the past few years. In this paper, we propose a fine-grained and attr...
We introduce a framework, called "physicomimetics," that provides distributed control of large collections of mobile physical agents in sensor networks. The agents sense...
William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Jerry C. Haman...
In this paper, we propose to implement hybrid operating systems based on two-level hardware interrupts. To separate real-time and non-real-time hardware interrupts by hardware, we...