—It has been observed in recent years that in many applications service time demands are highly variable. Without foreknowledge of exact service times of individual jobs, process...
Steve Thompson, Lester Lipsky, Sarah Tasneem, Feng...
—The departure process of a BMAP/MAP/1 queue can be approximated in different ways: as a Markovian arrival process (MAP) or as a matrix-exponential process (MEP). Both approximat...
Qi Zhang, Armin Heindl, Evgenia Smirni, Andreas St...
Maximizing the aggregate network utility and minimizing the network energy consumption are important but conflict goals in wireless sensor networks. Challenges arise due to the app...
Abstract—Although energy-efficient real-time task scheduling has attracted a lot of attention in the past decade, most existing results assumed deterministic execution lengths f...
—The number of active nodes in a WSN deployment governs both the longevity of the network and the accuracy of applications using the network’s data. As node hibernation techniq...
Richard Tynan, Gregory M. P. O'Hare, Michael J. O'...