— Desktop grids use the idle cycles of desktop PC’s to provide huge computational power at low cost. However, because the underlying desktop computing resources are volatile, a...
Derrick Kondo, Bruno Kindarji, Gilles Fedak, Franc...
A distributed protocol is proposed for the synchronization of real-time tasks that have variable resource requirements. The protocol is simple to implement and is intended for lar...
— Search and rescue of people in emergency situations, e.g. lost hikers, stranded climbers, or injured skiers has been difficult due to lack of information about their location ...
Some emerging networked embedded real-time applications have relatively long reaction time magnitudes—e.g., milliseconds to minutes. These longer execution time magnitudes allow...
Sherif Fadel Fahmy, Binoy Ravindran, E. Douglas Je...
When utilizing reconfigurable hardware there are many applications that will require more memory than is available in a single hardware block. While FPGAs have tools and mechanisms...