Embedded distributed real-time systems are traditionally used in safety-critical application areas such as avionics, healthcare, and the automotive sector. Assuring dependability ...
Grid computing relies on fragile partnerships. Clients with hundreds or even thousands of pending service requests must seek out and form temporary alliances with remote servers e...
This paper presents a software architecture for hardware fault tolerance based on loosely-synchronized, redundant virtual machines (LSRVM). LSRVM will provide high levels of relia...
The widespread use of the Internet makes software piracy and unauthorized modification easier and more frequent. Among the many techniques developed for protecting software copyr...
1 Classical systems using hierarchical modulation (such as DVB-SH) involve a "high-priority" (HP) and a "lowpriority" (LP) bit stream that are separately and in...