In this paper we analytically derive the sojourn time of a user accessing an online IPTV recording service. Basically, the system consists of a server (or server farm) and the band...
Due to the different nature of the available dynamic interactions between components afforded by some middleware infrastructure, distributed information systems (DIS) behave differ...
One of the challenges in designing distributed, embedded systems is the paucity of formal, executable specification notations that provide support for both real-time and asynchron...
: Publish/Subscribe infrastructures have gained significant traction recently with several specifications such as the Java Message Service (JMS), WS-Eventing and WS-Notification. I...
: The paper presents a hard real-time kernel for distributed computer control systems (DCCS) highlighting a number of novel features, such as integrated scheduling of hard and soft...