2008 Papers

Real-Time Systems Laboratory at Virginia Tech

Publications: 2008

CQS-Pair: Cyclic Quorum System Pair for Wakeup Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks, S. Lai, B. Zhang, B. Ravindran, and H. Cho, International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), December 2008

SOQ: A Service-Oriented Quorum-Based Protocol for Resilient Real-Time Communication in Partitionable Networks, B. Zhang and B. Ravindran, IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), December 2008

On A Self-organizing MANET Event Routing Architecture with Causal Dependency Awareness, G. Pei, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), October 2008. (Full version of the paper is available as a Technical Report.)

RT-P2P: A Scalable Real-Time Peer-to-Peer System with Probabilistic Timing Assurances, F. Huang, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded And Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), December 2008

Rate Allocation with Fairness and Lifetime Maximization for Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks, S. Lai, B. Ravindran, and H. Cho, IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), October 2008

On Scalable Synchronization for Distributed Embedded Real-time Systems, S. Fahmy, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IFIP Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded & Ubiquitous Systems (SEUS 2008), Invited Position paper, October 2008

Energy Efficient Sleep Scheduling in Sensor Networks for Multiple Target Tracking, B. Jiang, B. Ravindran, and H. Cho, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), June 2008

Scheduling Dependent Distributable Real-Time Threads in Dynamic Networked Embedded Systems, S. Fahmy, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IFIP Working Conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems (DIPES), September 2008. (Full version of the paper is available as a Technical Report.)

Lock-Free Synchronization for Dynamic, Embedded Real-Time Systems, H. Cho, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2008. (Journal version of the 2006 ACM Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) paper.) Also, appears as "On Lock-Free Synchronization for Dynamic Embedded Real-Time Software," Design, Automation, and Test in Europe: The Most Influential Papers of 10 Years, ISBN: 978-1-4020-6487-6, Rudy Lauwereins and Jan Madsen (Editors), Section 1: System Level Design, Springer-Verlag, January 2008

On collaborative scheduling of distributable real-time threads in dynamic, networked embedded systems, S. Fahmy, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE International Symposium on Object and component-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC), May 2008 (invited paper)

Fast Scheduling of Distributable Real-Time Threads with Assured End-to-End Timeliness, S. Fahmy, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, 13th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2008, June 2008. (Full version of the paper is available as a Technical Report.)

Scheduling Distributable Real-Time Threads in Networked Embedded Systems in the Presence of Crash Failures and Message Losses, S. Fahmy, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Real-Time Systems, March 2008

Energy Efficient Sleep Scheduling based on Moving Directions in Target Tracking Sensor Networks, B. Jiang, K. Han, B. Ravindran, and H. Cho, IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April 2008

RTQG: Real-Time Quorum-based Gossip Protocol for Unreliable Networks, B. Zhang, K. Han, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), March 2008

Real-Time, Byzantine-Tolerant Information Dissemination in Unreliable and Untrustworthy Distributed Systems, K. Han, G. Pei, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), May 2008

Integrated Real-Time Scheduling and Communication with Probabilistic Timing Assurances in Unreliable Distributed Systems, F. Huang, K. Han, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), March/April 2008

RTRD: Real-Time and Reliable Data Delivery in Ad Hoc Networks, K. Han, G. Pei, H. Cho, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), March/April 2008

LRTG: Scheduling Distributed Real-Time Tasks in Unreliable and Untrustworthy Systems, K. Han, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE International Symposium on Frontiers in Networking with Applications (FINA), IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, March 2008

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