Data replication can help database systems meet the stringent temporal constraints of current time-critical applications, especially Internet-based services. A prerequisite, howev...
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For many control systems, control performance is strongly dependent on delay variations of the control tasks. Such variations can come from a number of sources including task preem...
Shengyan Hong, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Michael D. Lemmon
Many mission-critical distributed real-time applications must handle aperiodic tasks with end-to-end deadlines. However, existing middleware (e.g., RT-CORBA) lacks schedulability ...
Yuanfang Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Christopher D. Gill, ...
Large-scale wireless sensor networks represent a new generation of real-time embedded systems with significantly different communication constraints from traditional networked sys...
Chenyang Lu, Brian M. Blum, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, J...
Slowdown based on dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) provides the ability to perform an energy-delay tradeoff in the system. Non-preemptive scheduling becomes an integral part of syste...