View-oriented group communication is an important and widely used building block for constructing highlyavailable fault-tolerant systems. Unfortunately, groupcommunication based s...
Eitan Farchi, Gabriel Kliot, Yoel Krasny, Alex Kri...
Low-level support of peripheral devices is one of the most demanding activities in a real-time operating system. In fact, the rapid development of new interface boards causes a tr...
Tullio Facchinetti, Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Mauro Mar...
While general-purpose processors have only recently employed chip multiprocessor (CMP) architectures, network processors (NPs) have used heterogeneous multi-core architectures sin...
It is advantageous to perform compiler optimizations to lower the WCET of a task since tasks with lower WCETs are easier to schedule and more likely to meet their deadlines. Compi...
Wankang Zhao, William C. Kreahling, David B. Whall...
Complexity is one of the most important problems facing microarchitects. It is exacerbated by the application of optimizations, by scaling to higher issue widths and, in general, ...