Desktop Grids have become very popular nowadays, with projects that include hundred of thousands computers. Desktop grid scheduling faces two challenges. First, the platform is vo...
Conventional performance evaluation mechanisms focus on dedicated distributed systems. Grid computing infrastructure, on another hand, is a shared collaborative environment constr...
The use of environmental energy is now emerging as a feasible energy source for embedded and wireless computing systems such as sensor networks where manual recharging or replacem...
This paper deals with the problem of scheduling aperiodic groups of tasks in distributed systems. It proposes two contributions, namely: i) a distributed scheduling algorithm to b...
Paolo Bizzarri, Andrea Bondavalli, Felicita Di Gia...