— Future mobile communication systems such as IEEE 802.16 are expected to deliver a variety of multimedia services with diverse QoS requirements. To guarantee the QoS provision, ...
Abstract--Reducing energy consumption for high end computing can bring various benefits such as, reduce operating costs, increase system reliability, and environment respect. This ...
Lizhe Wang, Gregor von Laszewski, Jai Dayal, Fugan...
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...
Commercial cloud offerings, such as Amazon's EC2, let users allocate compute resources on demand, charging based on reserved time intervals. While this gives great flexibilit...
This paper proposes and evaluates APIs for Inter-Core Time Aggregation Scheduler (IAS), which is a kernel-level thread scheduler to enhance performances of multi-threaded programs ...