Allowing higher-priority requests to preempt ongoing disk IOs is of particular benefit to delay-sensitive multimedia and real-time systems. In this paper we propose Semi-preempti...
Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami, Edward Y. Cha...
We develop a novel framework for supporting e-Science applications that require streaming of information between sites. Using a Synchronous Dataflow (SDF) model, our framework inco...
This paper shows that even very small data caches, when split to serve data streams exhibiting temporal and spatial localities, can improve performance of embedded applications wit...
Afrin Naz, Krishna M. Kavi, Wentong Li, Philip H. ...
Pervasive applications rely on data captured from the physical world through sensor devices. Data provided by these devices, however, tend to be unreliable. The data must, therefor...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Gustavo Alonso, Michael J. Frank...
In this paper, we present a dynamic thermal management (DTM) algorithm based on (i) accurate estimation of the workload of frames in a group of pictures (GOP) in an MPEG-2 video st...