A Time Action Lock is a state of a Real-time system at which neither time can progress nor an action can occur. Time Action Locks are often seen as signs of errors in the model or ...
We consider problems of provisioning an excludable public good amongst n potential members of a peer-to-peer system who are able to communicate information about their private pre...
Applications communicating over connectionless networks, such as IP, cannot obtain per-connection Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In contrast, the connection-oriented nature ...
Growth in the complexity of computing systems, in the dynamism of the environments they operate in, and the need for timely adaptations as conditions change, now pose significant...
—Embedded systems typically consist of a composition of a set of hardware and software IP modules. Each module is heavily optimized by itself. However, when these modules are com...
Fadi A. Zaraket, John Pape, Adnan Aziz, Margarida ...