Application domains, such as multimedia, databases, and parallel computing, require operating system services with high performance and high functionality. Existing operating syst...
Brian N. Bershad, Craig Chambers, Susan J. Eggers,...
Embedded software often needs to be ported from one system to another. This may happen for a number of reasons among which are the need for using less expensive hardware or the ne...
Hugo Marcondes, Arliones Stevert Hoeller, Lucas Fr...
The need for supportingvarietyof hard and soft real-time, as well as best effort applications ina multimedia computing environment requires an operating system framework that: (1)...
This paper investigates the sensitivity of real-time systems running applications under operating systems that are subject to soft-errors. We consider applications using different...
N. Ignat, B. Nicolescu, Yvon Savaria, Gabriela Nic...
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...