In this paper two scheduling models are addressed. First is the standard model (unicast) where requests (or jobs) are independent. The other is the broadcast model where broadcast...
In this paper we explore the packet starvation effect (PSE) that occurs in Ethernet controllers due to the unfairness of the CSMA/CD algorithm. The PSE causes some packets to expe...
Brian Whetten, Stephen Steinberg, Domenico Ferrari
Networked embedded systems present unique challenges for system designers composing distributed applications with dyanmic, real-time, and resilience requirements. We consider the ...
Binoy Ravindran, Edward Curley, Jonathan Stephen A...
This paper addresses the issue of how to meet the strict timing constraints of (soft) real-time virtualized applications while the Virtual Machine (VM) hosting them is undergoing a...
The most commonly used request processing model in multithreaded web servers is thread-per-request, in which an individual thread is bound to serve each web request. However, with...