Recently, much attention has been given to the need to endow industrial communication networks used in real-time systems with flexible scheduling. This allows control systems to a...
We propose a distributed on-demand power-management protocol for collecting data in sensor networks. The protocol aims to reduce power consumption while supporting fluctuating dem...
In this paper we consider the problem of managing and exploiting schedules in an uncertain and distributed environment. We assume a team of collaborative agents, each responsible ...
Stephen F. Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry L. Zimm...
Modern data centers are massive, and support a range of distributed applications across potentially hundreds of server racks. As their utilization and bandwidth needs continue to ...
With multimedia applications, the Internet traffic increased a lot in volume, but also suffered major alterations in its nature, requesting other network services besides the curr...