Future high-quality consumer electronics will contain a number of applications running in a
highly dynamic environment, and their execution will need to be efficiently arbitrated by the …

This paper presents a software framework containing a reconfiguration mechanism that
provides realtime execution guarantees in intensive media processing consumer electronic …

Media processing in high-quality multimedia embedded systems (HQMES) has real-time
constraints. Timely processing and rendering of video frames and audio samples is …

Real-time control software has been applied to a wide variety of real-world systems for
diverse military, aerospace, industrial, medical, and civil applications. Most real-time …

Multimedia execution in high-quality consumer electronics must handle frequent changes in
the resource demands of the running applications. These changes can be due to, for …

This paper studies the issue of assigning orientations to all links of an undirected network,
which is called the link-orientation problem (LOP). First, we describe some practical …

This thesis presents the LiquiMedia operating system architecture. LiquiMedia is specialized
to schedule multimedia applications. Because they generate output for a human observer …

Quality of Service (QoS) has become an increasingly important concept in wide-area
distributed systems. The overall QoS characteristics of a wide-area distributed system are …

Modern distributed embedded realtime measurement and control systems (DERTMCS) are
made up of diverse devices interconnected by a network. Middleware is the intermediary …

The explosion in growth of smart wireless devices has increased the ubiquitous presence of
computational resources and location-based data. This new reality of numerous wireless …