Real-time and embedded systems are essential to our lives, from controlling car engines and regulating traffic lights to monitoring plane takeoffs and landings to providing up-to-the-minute stock quotes. Bringing together researchers from both academia and industry, the Handbook of Real-Time and Embedded Systems provides comprehensive covera

"This book addresses the complex issues associated with software engineering environment capabilities for designing real-time embedded software systems"--Provided by publisher.

Resource management has a long history in computing, from the early days of time-shared machines with pioneering fundamental work on run-time systems, distributed systems, real-time operating systems and middleware. The longevity and fundamental importance of the topic has resulted in an incredibly large body of work for on-chip resource management in the past two decades. The possible combinations of sub-topics and variations in the assumptions, use of different terminology, metrics, goals, and use-cases, leaves anyone attempting to review the literature overwhelmed. On-Chip Dynamic Resource Management is the first comprehensive and coherent review of all aspects of on-chip run-time resource management designed to facilitate understanding of recent trends in dynamic and adaptive strategies. The authors provide the reader with a framework within which they can navigate both existing, as well as evolving research efforts in on-chip dynamic resource management. Written by leading experts in the field, researchers and students are provided a structured review and discussion of the state of the art that is divided along the primary objectives of resource management techniques: performance, power, reliability and quality of service.

A current challenge facing resource management is the need to deploy real-time systems in dynamic operational environments. The systems are often affected by unpredictable environmental factors that cannot be known a priori and have no meaningful worst-case estimates. As a result, traditional resource allocation techniques do not apply. Current attempts to address these systems have been limited.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing, Middleware 2000, held in New York, NY, USA, in April 2000. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 70 submissions. The book offers an excellent state-of-the-art report on research in the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems platforms and architectures for future networked environments. The papers are organized in sections on caching, indirection, reflection, messaging, quality of service, transactions and workflow, and composition.

Challenges in Design and Implementation of Middlewares for Real-Time Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Challenges in Design and Implementation of Middlewares for Real-Time Systems serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.