Meeting client Quality-of-Service (QoS) expectations proves to be a difficult task for the providers of e-Commerce services, especially when web servers experience overload condit...
We describe a simple on-line heuristic for scheduling job-shops. We assume there is a fixed set of routes for the jobs, and many jobs, say N, on each route. The heuristic uses saf...
WiFi interface is known to be a primary energy consumer in mobile devices, and idle listening (IL) is the dominant source of energy consumption in WiFi. Most existing protocols, s...
Considering the impact of the popular energy management technique Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) on system reliability, the Reliability-Aware Power Management (RA-PM...
This paper presents a way of encoding some kinds of dynamic reconfiguration behaviour in the interface portion of circuit descriptions. This has many advantages. The user of a rec...