Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Partitioning and global scheduling are two approaches for scheduling real-time tasks on multiprocessors. Though partitioning is sub-optimal, it has traditionally been preferred; t...
Anand Srinivasan, Philip Holman, James H. Anderson...
We develop a network of distributed mobile sensor systems as a solution to the emergency response problem. The mobile sensors are inside a building and they form a connected ad-ho...
George Kantor, Sanjiv Singh, Ronald A. Peterson, D...
Dynamic loading of software components (e.g., libraries or modules) is a widely used mechanism for improved system modularity and flexibility. Correct component resolution is cri...
The IETF is currently standardizing a light-weight protocol framework for server redundancy and session failover: Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool). It is the novel combination o...