We consider the practical problem of task assignment in a server farm, where each arriving job is immediately dispatched to a server in the farm. We look at the benefit of cycle ...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Cuihong Li, Takayuki Osogami, ...
S-MAC is a MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol as specialized for the wireless sensor network in order to sacrifice transmission delay and extend the working life of the whole sen...
Huge energy consumption has become a critical bottleneck for further applying large-scale cluster systems to build new data centers. Among various components of a data center, sto...
Ziliang Zong, Matt Briggs, Nick O'Connor, Xiao Qin
In the recent development of avionics systems, Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) is advocated for next generation architecture that needs integration of mixedcriticality real-time...
Yann-Hang Lee, Daeyoung Kim, Mohamed F. Younis, Je...
Petroleum industry production systems are highly automatized. In this industry, all functions (e.g., planning, scheduling and maintenance) are automated and in order to remain comp...