Embedded systems consisting of the application program ROM, RAM, the embedded processor core and any custom hardware on a single wafer are becoming increasingly common in areas suc...
Data futures in a metacomputing system refer to data products that have not yet been created but which can be uniquely named and manipulated. We employ data flow mechanisms expres...
Widely deployed multimedia services are expected to accommodate clients in a highly heterogeneous environment. Clients of a multimedia service may vary greatly in processing and c...
Modern VLSI processing supports a two-dimensional surface for active devices along with multiple stacked layers of interconnect. With the advent of planarization, the number of la...
Software distributed shared memory (DSM) techniques, while effective on applications with coarse-grained sharing, yield poor performance for the fine-grained sharing encountered i...