Large-scale wireless sensor networks represent a new generation of real-time embedded systems with significantly different communication constraints from traditional networked sys...
Chenyang Lu, Brian M. Blum, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, J...
Performance evaluation of computer networks through traditional packet-level simulation is becoming increasingly difficult as networks grow in size along different dimensions. Due...
Daniel R. Figueiredo, Benyuan Liu, Yang Guo, James...
In this paper, we present a checkpoint-based scheme to improve the turnaround time of bag-of-tasks applications executed on institutional desktop grids. We propose to share checkp...
On systems with multi-core processors, the memory access scheduling scheme plays an important role not only in utilizing the limited memory bandwidth but also in balancing the pro...
Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. The main reasons for batching are avoidance of set ups and/or facilitation of material handling...