Many real-time applications are designed to work in different operating modes each characterized by different functionality and resource demands. With each mode change, resource d...
Nikolay Stoimenov, Lothar Thiele, Luca Santinelli,...
By definition, a heavyweight network service requires a significant amount of computation to complete its task. Providing a heavyweight service is challenging for a number of reaso...
(m,k)-firm constraints have been used to schedule tasks in soft/firm real-time systems under overloaded conditions. In general, they are provided by application designers to guara...
Clock-related operations are one of the many sources of replica non-determinism and of replica inconsistency in fault-tolerant distributed systems. In passive replication, if the ...
Wenbing Zhao, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith
Recently proposed scalable on-demand streaming protocols have previously been evaluated using a system cost measure termed the "required server bandwidth". For the scala...
Haonan Tan, Derek L. Eager, Mary K. Vernon, Hongfe...