Monitoring human movements using wireless sensory devices promises to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare services. In spite of their potentials for many application domains,...
Now that multicore microprocessors have become a commodity, it is natural to think about employing them in all kinds of computing, including high-reliability embedded real-time sy...
The performance of parallel applications running on large clusters is known to degrade due to the interference of kernel and daemon activities on individual nodes, often referred t...
Current Electronic Toll Pricing (ETP) implementations rely on on-board units sending fine-grained location data to the service provider. We present , a privacy-preserving ETP syst...
Hard-disk drive power consumption reduction methods focus mainly on increasing the amount of time the disk is in standby mode (disk spun down) by implementing aggressive data read...