Blackouts in our daily life can be disastrous with enormous economic loss. Blackouts usually occur when appropriate corrective actions are not effectively taken for an initial con...
Ming Chen, Clinton Nolan, Xiaorui Wang, Sarina Adh...
Parallel computing on volatile distributed resources requires schedulers that consider job and resource characteristics. We study unconventional computing environments containing ...
Brent Rood, Nathan Gnanasambandam, Michael J. Lewi...
Control systems running on a computer are subject to timing disturbances coming from implementation constraints. Fortunately closed-loop systems behave robustly w.r.t. modelling e...
We study the effect of laxity, or slack time, on the online scheduling of broadcasts with deadlines. The laxity of a request is defined to be the ratio between its span (differe...
Stanley P. Y. Fung, Francis Y. L. Chin, Chung Keun...
In this paper, we present a new strategy for providing flexibility in hard real-time systems. This approach, based on dual priorities, retains the offline guarantees afforded to...