Database queries, in particular, event-driven continuous queries, are useful for many pervasive computing applications, such as video surveillance. In order to enable these applic...
In systems where customer service demands are only known probabilistically, there is very little to distinguish between jobs. Therefore, no universal optimum scheduling strategy o...
Sarah Tasneem, Lester Lipsky, Reda A. Ammar, Howar...
In this paper, we propose using the network-attached disk (NAD) architecture to design highly scalable and cost-effective multimedia-on-demand (MOD) servers. In order to ensure en...
In a distributed heterogeneous computing system, the resources have different capabilities and tasks have different requirements. To maximize the performance of the system, it is ...
Jong-Kook Kim, Sameer Shivle, Howard Jay Siegel, A...
This paper describes a stochastic analysis method for general periodic real-time systems. The proposed method accurately computes the response time distribution of each task in th...