This paper develops a model of an electrical power system, with its inherent embedded communication system, for the purpose of studying the characteristics of power system measure...
Distributed real-time systems require a predictable and verifiable mechanism to control the communication medium. Current real-time communication protocols are typically independe...
In this paper, we study the media workload collected from a large number of commercial Web sites hosted by a major ISP and that collected from a large group of home users connecte...
A collaborative system must perform both processing and transmission tasks. We present a policy for scheduling these tasks on a single core that is inspired by studies of human pe...
Providing web service replicas improves the overall system performance and redundancy for hardware failures. In Business-to-Business, this may be particularly interesting for orga...