A growing class of real-time systems require end-to-end support for various quality-of-
service (QoS) aspects, including bandwidth, latency, jitter and dependability. Applications …

Distributed object computing forms the basis for next-generation application middleware. At
the heart of distributed object computing are object request brokers (ORBs), which automate …

During the past few years there has been an dramatic upsurge in research and
development, implementations of new technologies, and deployments of actual solutions …

Control systems such as those used in satellites, spacecraft, automobiles, chemical
processing plants, and manufacturing rely heavily on the software that is used to implement …

Building distributed embedded systems from scratch is not cost-effective. Instead, designing
and building these systems by using domain specific components has promise. However, in …

Regression testing is an important part of software maintenance, but it can also be very
expensive. To reduce this expense, software testers may prioritize their test cases so that …

Recent advances in network bandwidth and processing power of CPUs has led to the
emergence of multimedia streaming frameworks, such as NetShow, Realvideo and Vxtreme …

Computing systems are increasingly distributed, real-time, and embedded (DRE) and must
operate under highly unpredictable and changeable conditions. To provide predictable …

We present a framework, called meta scheduler, for implementing real-time scheduling
algorithms. The meta scheduler is a portable middleware layer component designed for …

Strict control over the scheduling and execution of processor resources is essential for many
fixed-priority real-time applications. To facilitate this common requirement, the Real-Time …