In a multi-programmed computing environment, threads of execution exhibit different runtime characteristics and hardware resource requirements. Not only do the behaviors of distin...
Modern multiprocessor embedded systems execute a large number of tasks on shared processors and handle their complex communications on shared communication networks. Traditional m...
Lothar Thiele, Iuliana Bacivarov, Wolfgang Haid, K...
Emerging sensor network technologies are expected to substantially augment applications such as environmental monitoring, health-care, and home/commercial automation. However, muc...
As modern supercomputing systems reach the peta-flop performance range, they grow in both size and complexity. This makes them increasingly vulnerable to failures from a variety ...
Greg Bronevetsky, Daniel Marques, Keshav Pingali, ...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing is the hottest, fastest growing application on the Internet. When designing Gnutella-like applications, the most important consideration is the sca...