Atomicity is an important specification that enables programmers to understand atomic blocks of code in a multi-threaded program as if they are sequential. This significantly simp...
The new MPEG-4 standard, scheduled to become an International Standard in February 1999, will include support not only for natural video and audio, but also for synthetic graphics...
Marc Escher, Igor S. Pandzic, Nadia Magnenat-Thalm...
—Rate allocation is a fundamental problem in the operation of a wireless network because of the necessity to schedule the operation of mutually interfering links between the node...
Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) and Dynamic Power Management (DPM) are two popular techniques commonly employed to save energy in real-time embedded systems. DVS policies aim at red...
Before an application modelled as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is executed on a heterogeneous system, a DAG mapping policy is often enacted. After mapping, the tasks (in the DAG...
Ligang He, Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, D...