Modelling of real-time systems requires accurate and tight estimates of the Worst-Case
Execution Time (WCET) of each task scheduled to run. In the past two decades, two main …

A job that is impeded by a preemption or migration incurs additional cache misses when it
resumes execution due to a loss of cache affinity. While often regarded negligible in …

Prior work has identified several optimal algorithms for scheduling independent, implicit-
deadline sporadic (or periodic) real-time tasks on identical multiprocessors. These …

Current computing architectures are commonly built with multiple cores and a single shared
main memory. Even though this architecture increases the overall computation power, main …

Power consumption is becoming complicated to tackle each day in the embedded systems
industry. As the demand for speed and accuracy increases, so does the power consumption …

AntiViruses (AVs) are essential to face the myriad of malware threatening Internet users. AVs
operate in two modes: on-demand checks and real-time verification. Software-based real …

As real-time embedded systems integrate more and more functionality, they are demanding
increasing amounts of computational power that can only be met by deploying multicore …

Locking cache lines in hard real-time systems is a common means of achieving predictability
of cache access behavior and tightening as well as reducing worst case execution time …

Since multi-core processors have become a primary trend in processor development, new
scheduling algorithms are needed to minimize power consumption while achieving the …

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) reconfigurable devices have been recognized as one of
the most suitable processing devices to be applied in nano-satellites, since they can satisfy …