Distributed real-time systems require a predictable and verifiable mechanism to control the communication medium. Current real-time communication protocols are typically independe...
Dynamically allocating computing nodes to parallel applications is a promising technique for improving the utilization of cluster resources. We introduce the concept of dynamic ef...
Resource reservations are a very popular choice to schedule multimedia tasks. However, the high variability of the resource requirements hinders a static choice of the scheduling ...
Luigi Palopoli, Luca Abeni, Tommaso Cucinotta, Giu...
Abstract. We propose FIT, a flexible, light-weight and real-time scheduling system for wireless sensor platforms. There are three salient features of FIT. First, its two-tier hiera...
Wei Dong, Chun Chen, Xue Liu, Kougen Zheng, Rui Ch...
In WSN-based surveillance systems power conservation is an important issue but one must also ensure that the application's objectives are met. In this paper, we jointly addres...