Femto cells are a cost-effective means of providing ubiquitous connectivity in future broadband wireless networks. While their primary purpose has been to improve coverage in curr...
This paper investigates television-watching practices amongst early adopters of personal hard-disk video recorders (PVRs such as TiVotm ) and Internet downloading of shows. Throug...
In this paper, we present a functional partitioning method for low power real-time distributed embedded systems whose constituent nodes are systems-on-a-chip (SOCs). The systemlev...
An error that occurs in a microkernel operating system service can potentially result in state corruption and service failure. A simple restart of the failed service is not always...
Francis M. David, Ellick Chan, Jeffrey C. Carlyle,...
Operating systems were created to provide multiple tasks with access to scarce hardware resources like CPU, memory, or storage. Modern programmable hardware, however, may contain ...