To improve performance and reduce power, processor designers employ advances that shrink feature sizes, lower voltage levels, reduce noise margins, and increase clock rates. Howev...
George A. Reis, Jonathan Chang, Neil Vachharajani,...
Thread migration moves a single call-stack to another machine to improve either load balancing or locality. Current approaches for checkpointing and thread migration are either no...
Low-level support of peripheral devices is one of the most demanding activities in a real-time operating system. In fact, the rapid development of new interface boards causes a tr...
Tullio Facchinetti, Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Mauro Mar...
Wearable haptics necessitates using low power, small, inexpensive tactors that are typically used as pager motors in cellular phones. One of their limitations is that it appears t...
Recognition of specular objects is particularly difficult because their appearance is much more sensitive to lighting changes than that of Lambertian objects. We consider an appr...