Published: 2002-03-18

Editorial

What is the GRID?

Ami Marowka

Introduction to the Special Issue

Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems

Barbara Pfarr, Armin Zimmerman, Scott Brandt

Special Issue Papers

FARM: A Feedback-Based Adaptive Resource Management For Complex Real-Time Systems and Application to Sensor Web

S. Swaminathan, G. Manimaran

Management of Application QOS-level Adaptation for Real-Time Systems

Shikha Jain, Lonnie R. Welch, Barbara Pfarr, David M. Chelberg, C. Bruggeman, David Fleeman, David Parrott, Zhenyu Tan, M. McCoy, Chris Shuler

Analyzing the Behavior of Embedded Systems Concerning Gracefull Degradation

M. Trapp, B. Schuermann, T. Tetteroo

A Framework for using benefit functions in complex real-time systems

David Andrews, Ravi Vemuri, David M. Chelberg, David Fleeman, David Parrott, Lonnie R. Welch, Scott Brandt

Worst-Case Analysis for Real-Time Processes in Time-Sharing Environments

E. Huh, A. Neelamegam, Lonnie R. Welch, H. Park, Barbara Pfarr

Partitioning Considerations for Quantized EDF Scheduling

J. P. Hansen, H. Zhu, J. Lehoczky, R. Rajkumar

A Value-Based Scheduler Capturing Schedulability-Reliability Tradeoff in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems

S. Swaminathan, G. Manimaran

A Component-Based Approach for Adaptive Soft Real-Time Java within Heterogeneous Environments

Ren-Song Ko, Matt W. Mutka

Switched Real-Time Ethernet with Earliest Deadline First Scheduling—Protocols, Trafic Handling and Simuation Analysis

H. Hoang, M. Jonsson, U. Hagstorm, A. Kallerdahl