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    Towards Overhead-Free Interface Theory for Compositional Hierarchical Real-Time Systems

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    Much recent research has been conducted on compositional real-time scheduling framework as the framework becomes a useful fundamental theory for real-time OS-Hypervisor. Much recent research has been conducted on compositional real-time scheduling as the framework becomes a useful fundamental theory for real-time OS-Hypervisor. However, compositional frameworks suffer from abstraction overheads in composing components. In this paper, we classify the composition overheads into i) supply abstraction overhead associated with the supply from a resource provider, and ii) demand abstraction overhead associated with the component workload. Then, we provide sufficient conditions for each abstraction overhead to be eliminated. In addition, this paper provides a heuristic technique that transforms any component to satisfy the sufficient conditions so that the abstraction overheads are minimized. In our comparison, we showed our technique outperforms the prior overhead-reducing CF about 10% at average and other combination techniques about 8% in reducing the overhead

    Virtual Communication Stack: Towards Building Integrated Simulator of Mobile Ad Hoc Network-based Infrastructure for Disaster Response Scenarios

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    Responses to disastrous events are a challenging problem, because of possible damages on communication infrastructures. For instance, after a natural disaster, infrastructures might be entirely destroyed. Different network paradigms were proposed in the literature in order to deploy adhoc network, and allow dealing with the lack of communications. However, all these solutions focus only on the performance of the network itself, without taking into account the specificities and heterogeneity of the components which use it. This comes from the difficulty to integrate models with different levels of abstraction. Consequently, verification and validation of adhoc protocols cannot guarantee that the different systems will work as expected in operational conditions. However, the DEVS theory provides some mechanisms to allow integration of models with different natures. This paper proposes an integrated simulation architecture based on DEVS which improves the accuracy of ad hoc infrastructure simulators in the case of disaster response scenarios.Comment: Preprint. Unpublishe

    Removing Abstraction Overhead in the Composition of Hierarchical Real-Time System

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    The hierarchical real-time scheduling framework is a widely accepted model to facilitate the design and analysis of the increasingly complex real-time systems. Interface abstraction and composition are the key issues in the hierarchical scheduling framework analysis. Schedulability is essential to guarantee that the timing requirements of all components are satisfied. In order for the design to be resource efficient, the composition must be bandwidth optimal. Associativity is desirable for open systems in which components may be added or deleted at run time. Previous techniques on compositional scheduling are either not resource efficient in some aspects, or cannot achieve optimality and associativity at the same time. In this paper, several important properties regarding the periodic resource model are identified. Based on those properties, we propose a novel interface abstraction and composition framework which achieves schedulability, optimality, and associativity. Our approach eliminates abstraction overhead in the composition

    Inter-organizational fault management: Functional and organizational core aspects of management architectures

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    Outsourcing -- successful, and sometimes painful -- has become one of the hottest topics in IT service management discussions over the past decade. IT services are outsourced to external service provider in order to reduce the effort required for and overhead of delivering these services within the own organization. More recently also IT services providers themselves started to either outsource service parts or to deliver those services in a non-hierarchical cooperation with other providers. Splitting a service into several service parts is a non-trivial task as they have to be implemented, operated, and maintained by different providers. One key aspect of such inter-organizational cooperation is fault management, because it is crucial to locate and solve problems, which reduce the quality of service, quickly and reliably. In this article we present the results of a thorough use case based requirements analysis for an architecture for inter-organizational fault management (ioFMA). Furthermore, a concept of the organizational respective functional model of the ioFMA is given.Comment: International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC

    SP@CE - An SP-Based Programming Model for Consumer Electronics Streaming Applications

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    Abstract. Consumer Electronics (CE) devices are becoming the favorite target platforms for multimedia streaming applications, but finding the right solutions for efficient programming, both in terms of development time and application performance is not trivial. In this context, we presen
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