Desktop Grids have proved to be a suitable platform for the execution of Bag-of-Tasks applications but, being characterized by a high resource volatility, require the availability ...
Cosimo Anglano, John Brevik, Massimo Canonico, Dan...
There is considerable interest in developing runtime infrastructures for programs that can migrate from one host to another. Mobile programs are appealing because they support eff...
BOINC, a middleware system for volunteer computing, involves projects, which distribute jobs, and hosts, which execute jobs. The local (host-level) scheduler addresses two issues:...
As computing systems of all types grow in power and complexity, it is common to want to simultaneously execute processes with different timeliness constraints. Many systems use CP...
Abstract— A central scheduling problem in wireless communications is that of allocating resources to one of many mobile stations that have a common radio channel. Much attention ...
Kavitha Veeraruna, Eitan Altman, Rachid El Azouzi,...