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Enhanced Harmonic Partitioned Scheduling of Periodic Real-Time Tasks Based on Slack Analysis

  • Jiankang Ren,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Xu Li,
  • Wei Cao and ,
  • Shengyu Li,
  • Wenxin Chu and
  • Chengzhang Song
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 September 2024

The adoption of multiprocessor platforms is growing commonplace in Internet of Things (IoT) applications to handle large volumes of sensor data while maintaining real-time performance at a reasonable cost and with low power consumption. Partitioned s...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,446 Views
21 Pages

The architecture of Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) provides airborne software with a robust temporal partitioning mechanism, which achieves the reliable fault containment between avionics applications. However, the partition scheduling of an IMA s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Embedded Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,164 Views
23 Pages

7 November 2024

ARINC 653 Part 1 Supplement 5 (ARINC 653P1-5) provides temporal partitioning capabilities for real-time applications running on the multicore processors in Integrated Modular Avionics (IMAs) systems. However, it is difficult to schedule a set of ARIN...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aircraft Design and System Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,834 Views
21 Pages

Energy-Efficient Task Partitioning for Real-Time Scheduling on Multi-Core Platforms

  • Manal A. El Sayed,
  • El Sayed M. Saad,
  • Rasha F. Aly and
  • Shahira M. Habashy

Multi-core processors have become widespread computing engines for recent embedded real-time systems. Efficient task partitioning plays a significant role in real-time computing for achieving higher performance alongside sustaining system correctness...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-Time Systems in Emerging IoT-Embedded Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,378 Views
21 Pages

7 September 2020

Dynamically partially reconfigurable (DPR) technology based on FPGA is applied extensively in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) because of its advantages in processing efficiency and power consumption. To make full use of the advantages o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced AI Hardware Designs Based on FPGAs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,142 Views
21 Pages

A heterogeneous system-on-chip (SoC) integrates multiple types of processors on the same chip. It has great advantages in many aspects, such as processing capacity, size, weight, cost, power, and energy consumption, which result in it being widely ad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Embedded HW/SW Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,014 Views
30 Pages

Dynamic Application Partitioning and Task-Scheduling Secure Schemes for Biosensor Healthcare Workload in Mobile Edge Cloud

  • Abdullah Lakhan,
  • Jin Li,
  • Tor Morten Groenli,
  • Ali Hassan Sodhro and ,
  • Nawaz Ali Zardari,
  • Ali Shariq Imran,
  • Orawit Thinnukool and
  • Pattaraporn Khuwuthyakorn
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 November 2021

Currently, the use of biosensor-enabled mobile healthcare workflow applications in mobile edge-cloud-enabled systems is increasing progressively. These applications are heavyweight and divided between a thin client mobile device and a thick server ed...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
417 Views
27 Pages

As web technologies shift from traditional content delivery toward high-performance computing, Web Worker-based parallelism for compute-intensive tasks such as fractal rendering has become essential for improving web application performance and inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,358 Views
13 Pages

27 May 2023

Considering the possible overvoltage caused by high-penetration photovoltaics (PVs) connected to the distribution networks (DNs), a cluster partition-based voltage control combined day-ahead scheduling and real-time control for distribution networks...

(This article belongs to the Topic Distributed Energy Systems and Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,953 Views
22 Pages

Comprehensive MILP Formulation and Solution for Simultaneous Scheduling of Machines and AGVs in a Partitioned Flexible Manufacturing System

  • Cheng Zhuang,
  • Jingbo Qu,
  • Tianyu Wang,
  • Liyong Lin and ,
  • Youyi Bi and
  • Mian Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 June 2025

This paper proposes a comprehensive Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) formulation for the simultaneous scheduling of machines and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) within a partitioned Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS). The main objective is t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensing, Planning and Control for Autonomous Ground Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
123 Views
25 Pages

21 October 2026

Efficient end-to-end timing evaluation is essential for the design and configuration of partitioned aviation sensing-data processing chains. Task activation, partition scheduling, message dependencies, and resource sharing jointly influence flow dela...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,570 Views
29 Pages

Error and Congestion Resilient Video Streaming over Broadband Wireless

  • Laith Al-Jobouri,
  • Ismail A. Ali,
  • Martin Fleury and
  • Mohammed Ghanbari

21 April 2015

In this paper, error resilience is achieved by adaptive, application-layer rateless channel coding, which is used to protect H.264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) codec data-partitioned videos. A packetization strategy is an effective tool to control er...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,487 Views
27 Pages

Dynamic Priority Real-Time Scheduling on Power Asymmetric Multicore Processors

  • Basharat Mahmood,
  • Naveed Ahmad,
  • Majid Iqbal Khan and
  • Adnan Akhunzada

13 August 2021

The use of real-time systems is growing at an increasing rate. This raises the power efficiency as the main challenge for system designers. Power asymmetric multicore processors provide a power-efficient platform for building complex real-time system...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,524 Views
24 Pages

An Optimal Scheduling Method of Shared Energy Storage System Considering Distribution Network Operation Risk

  • Jiahao Chen,
  • Bing Sun,
  • Yuan Zeng,
  • Ruipeng Jing and ,
  • Shimeng Dong and
  • Jingran Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 March 2023

Shared energy storage systems (SESS) have been gradually developed and applied to distribution networks (DN). There are electrical connections between SESSs and multiple DN nodes; SESSs could significantly improve the power restoration potential and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Research and Future Development in Intelligent Power Distribution Systems: Planning, Operation and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
340 Views
43 Pages

7 July 2026

Complex cyber-physical systems in the automotive and avionics domains increasingly consolidate safety-critical and non-critical functions onto shared multicore platforms. A central design challenge in these environments is ensuring strict timing guar...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,919 Views
19 Pages

A Tetris-Based Task Allocation Strategy for Real-Time Operating Systems

  • Yumeng Chen,
  • Songlin Liu,
  • Zongmiao He and
  • Xiang Ling

Real-time constrained multiprocessor systems have been widely applied across various domains. In this paper, we focus on the scheduling algorithm for directed acyclic graph (DAG) tasks under partitioned scheduling on multiprocessor systems. Effective...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,193 Views
23 Pages

22 September 2017

Considering the possible overvoltage caused by the high proportion of photovoltaic systems (PVs) accessing distribution networks in the future, traditional centralized control methods will be too complex to satisfy the control response time demands....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,611 Views
24 Pages

5 November 2020

Distributed stream processing engines (DSPEs) deploy multiple tasks on distributed servers to process data streams in real time. Many DSPEs have provided locality-aware stream partitioning (LSP) methods to reduce network communication costs. However,...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,080 Views
16 Pages

16 August 2019

As the realization form of integrated energy system, integrated energy park is the key research object in the field of energy. Actual integrated energy parks are often partitioned internally. In order to take into account the interests of each zone i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integration of Renewables in Power Systems by Multi-Energy System Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,047 Views
21 Pages

3 January 2020

The penetration of photovoltaic (PV) outputs brings great challenges to optimal operation of active distribution networks (ADNs), especially leading to more serious overvoltage problems. This study proposes a zonal voltage control scheme based on mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Power System Dynamics, Stability and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,954 Views
19 Pages

17 June 2024

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have gained considerable attention for their expressive capabilities, but unfortunately they have serious robustness risks. Formal verification is an important technique to ensure network reliability. However, current veri...

(This article belongs to the Topic Adversarial Machine Learning: Theories and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
745 Views
23 Pages

Interactive Effects of Irrigation Amount and Interval on Cotton Water Use and Productivity: Evidence from Controlled Experiments and AquaCrop Simulations

  • Hanjing Chen,
  • Qiuxiang Tang,
  • Yabing Li,
  • Hao Zhang and ,
  • Ke Li,
  • Jiaqi Li,
  • Yanyan Xie,
  • Na Su,
  • Yushui Duan and
  • Tao Lin
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

31 March 2026

In arid and semi-arid regions, improving water use irrigation efficiency under limited seasonal water supply is critical for sustainable cotton production. While the effects of seasonal irrigation amount have been widely studied, the independent and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Efficient Strategies for the Utilization of Water Resources and Nutrients and Crop Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
372 Views
26 Pages

13 May 2026

Active Distribution Networks (ADNs) rely on the precise coordination of flexible resources to mitigate the stochasticity of high-penetration renewables. However, the hierarchical and partitioned nature of modern ADNs transforms the day-ahead scheduli...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,801 Views
12 Pages

27 September 2022

The Internet of Things applications have become popular because of their lightweight nature and usefulness, which require low latency and response time. Hence, Internet of Things applications are deployed with the fog management layer (software) in c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge/Fog Computing Technologies for IoT Infrastructure II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
571 Views
41 Pages

27 June 2026

Full-physics reservoir simulation for CO2 storage becomes computationally expensive when many operational schedules must be screened, motivating machine-learning (ML) surrogates that reduce simulation burden while preserving the essential physics-dri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition of Artificial Intelligent Techniques in the Optimal Operation of Oil and Gas Production Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,136 Views
32 Pages

22 January 2026

The integration of high-penetration renewable energy sources (RESs) and electric vehicles (EVs) increases the risk of voltage fluctuations in distribution networks. Traditional static partitioning strategies struggle to handle the intermittency of wi...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,199 Views
21 Pages

2 July 2024

This paper presents a thorough review of our state-of-the-art technique for enhancing dynamic grid partitioning and scheduling in multi-energy source systems. We use a hybrid approach to T-spherical fuzzy sets, combining the alternative ranking order...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,350 Views
31 Pages

14 October 2020

The increasing worldwide energy demand, the CO2 emissions generated due to the production and use of energy, climate change, and the depletion of natural resources are important concerns that require new solutions for energy generation and management...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for Future Internet—Internet of Things Section)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,638 Views
28 Pages

Learning to Partition: Dynamic Deep Neural Network Model Partitioning for Edge-Assisted Low-Latency Video Analytics

  • Yan Lyu,
  • Likai Liu,
  • Xuezhi Wang,
  • Zhiyu Fan and ,
  • Jinchen Wang and
  • Guanyu Gao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In edge-assisted low-latency video analytics, a critical challenge is balancing on-device inference latency against the high bandwidth costs and network delays of offloading. Ineffectively managing this trade-off degrades performance and hinders crit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,193 Views
20 Pages

Schedulability Analysis in Fixed-Priority Real-Time Multicore Systems with Contention

  • Luis Ortiz,
  • Ana Guasque,
  • Patricia Balbastre,
  • José Simó and
  • Alfons Crespo

9 May 2024

In the scheduling of hard real-time systems on multicore platforms, significant unpredictability arises from interference caused by shared hardware resources. The objective of this paper is to offer a schedulability analysis for such systems by assum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,575 Views
18 Pages

Dense Clustered Multi-Channel Wireless Sensor Cloud

  • Sivaramakrishnan Sivakumar and
  • Adnan Al-Anbuky

Dense Wireless Sensor Network Clouds have an inherent issue of latency and packet drops with regards to data collection. Though there is extensive literature that tries to address these issues through either scheduling, channel contention or a combin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,046 Views
23 Pages

29 May 2023

Building energy modelling (BEM) is crucial for achieving energy conservation in buildings, but occupant energy-related behaviour is often oversimplified in traditional engineering simulation methods and thus causes a significant deviation between ene...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Building)
  • Article
  • Open Access
536 Views
42 Pages

18 August 2026

The lack of determinism restricts the integration of safety-critical applications into Edge–Fog–Cloud (EFC) architectures. Existing EFC schedulers are typically designed for dynamic, best-effort operation based on unmanaged resource alloc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Service Computing: Synergies, Innovations, and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,582 Views
16 Pages

Spatial data processing often requires massive datasets, and the task/data scheduling efficiency of these applications has an impact on the overall processing performance. Among the existing scheduling strategies, hypergraph-based algorithms capture...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,185 Views
22 Pages

21 September 2024

As industrial informatization progresses, virtual simulation technologies are increasingly demonstrating their potential in industrial applications. These systems utilize various sensors to capture real-time factory data, which are then transmitted t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Data-Driven Methods and Their Applications in Engineering Control, Optimization and AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,956 Views
26 Pages

Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is considered an ideal solution to meet the transmission needs of existing industrial production methods. The traffic scheduling problem of TSN is an NP-hard problem. The traditional traffic scheduling algorithms can l...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,883 Views
21 Pages

Towards Fully Jitterless Applications: Periodic Scheduling in Multiprocessor MCSs Using a Table-Driven Approach

  • Eugenia Ana Capota,
  • Cristina Sorina Stangaciu,
  • Mihai Victor Micea and
  • Daniel-Ioan Curiac

25 September 2020

In mixed criticality systems (MCSs), the time-triggered scheduling approach focuses on a special case of safety-critical embedded applications which run in a time-triggered environment. Sometimes, for these types of MCSs, perfectly periodical (i.e.,...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,056 Views
14 Pages

Multi-Core Time-Triggered OCBP-Based Scheduling for Mixed Criticality Periodic Task Systems

  • Marian D. Baciu,
  • Eugenia A. Capota,
  • Cristina S. Stângaciu,
  • Daniel-Ioan Curiac and
  • Mihai V. Micea

9 February 2023

Mixed criticality systems are one of the relatively new directions of development for the classical real-time systems. As the real-time embedded systems become more and more complex, incorporating different tasks with different criticality levels, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications ISETC 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,104 Views
17 Pages

Structure-Aware Scheduling Methods for Scientific Workflows in Cloud

  • Alaa Albtoush,
  • Farizah Yunus,
  • Khaled Almi’ani and
  • Noor Maizura Mohamad Noor

3 February 2023

Scientific workflows consist of numerous tasks subject to constraints on data dependency. Effective workflow scheduling is perpetually necessary to efficiently utilize the provided resources to minimize workflow execution cost and time (makespan). Ac...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,315 Views
17 Pages

Large-Scale Dynamic Graph Processing with Graphic Processing Unit-Accelerated Priority-Driven Differential Scheduling and Operation Reduction

  • Sangho Song,
  • Jihyeon Choi,
  • Donghyeon Cha,
  • Hyeonbyeong Lee and ,
  • Dojin Choi,
  • Jongtae Lim,
  • Kyoungsoo Bok and
  • Jaesoo Yoo
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 March 2025

Recently, there has been active research on utilizing GPUs for the efficient processing of large-scale dynamic graphs. However, challenges arise due to the repeated transmission and processing of identical data during dynamic graph operations. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,801 Views
25 Pages

A Cluster Sleep-Wake Scheduling Algorithm Based on 3D Topology Control in Underwater Sensor Networks

  • Wenbo Zhang,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Guangjie Han,
  • Xinyue Zhang and
  • Yongxin Feng

4 January 2019

3D topology control in underwater sensor networks is of great significance to ensuring reliable and efficient operation of the network. In this paper, by analyzing the characteristics of an underwater sensor network, we take the cube as the basic uni...

(This article belongs to the Collection Smart Ocean: Emerging Research Advances, Prospects and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,375 Views
31 Pages

A Levelized Multiple Workflow Heterogeneous Earliest Finish Time Allocation Model for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud Environment

  • Farheen Bano,
  • Faisal Ahmad,
  • Mohammad Shahid,
  • Mahfooz Alam and ,
  • Faraz Hasan and
  • Mohammad Sajid
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 February 2025

Cloud computing, a superset of heterogeneous distributed computing, allows sharing of geographically dispersed resources across multiple organizations on a rental basis using virtualization as per demand. In cloud computing, workflow allocation to ac...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
8,314 Views
19 Pages

Revising the Observation Satellite Scheduling Problem Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Yixin Huang,
  • Zhongcheng Mu,
  • Shufan Wu,
  • Benjie Cui and
  • Yuxiao Duan

18 June 2021

Earth observation satellite task scheduling research plays a key role in space-based remote sensing services. An effective task scheduling strategy can maximize the utilization of satellite resources and obtain larger objective observation profits. I...

(This article belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
479 Views
24 Pages

Simulation Modeling and Schedule Optimization for Arch Dam Construction in High-Altitude Regions with Severe Temperature Variations

  • Chunju Zhao,
  • Zhiyu Liu,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Yihong Zhou and ,
  • Jun He,
  • Huawei Zhou,
  • Zhipeng Liang and
  • Lei Lei
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

28 May 2026

In the construction of conventional concrete high arch dams in high-altitude regions with large temperature variations, the prolonged and cold winters often force the suspension of concrete pouring, severely constraining the overall schedule. To addr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Challenges in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
656 Views
19 Pages

Hydro Unit Commitment Considering Forbidden and Restricted Vibration Operating Zones

  • Zheng Zhang,
  • Xiangyu Wu,
  • Yuhang Huo,
  • Yan Zhang and ,
  • Hanlin Man and
  • Zhipeng Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 March 2026

In power systems with high renewable penetration, day-ahead hydropower scheduling is increasingly dispatched for power balancing and residual-load smoothing, which leads to frequent ramping and power-output fluctuations, thereby increasing the likeli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Electricity Markets and Power Systems Operations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,475 Views
13 Pages

The Application of Fault-Tolerant Partition Resolvability in Cycle-Related Graphs

  • Kamran Azhar,
  • Sohail Zafar,
  • Agha Kashif,
  • Amer Aljaedi and
  • Umar Albalawi

23 September 2022

The concept of metric-related parameters permeates all of graph theory and plays an important role in diverse networks, such as social networks, computer networks, biological networks and neural networks. The graph parameters include an incredible to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,058 Views
17 Pages

28 July 2023

Workload balance is significant in the manufacturing industry. However, on the one hand, some existing specific criteria cannot achieve the minimization workload imbalance of parallel machines. On the other hand, there are few algorithms in existing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Their Applications, Volume II)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,010 Views
15 Pages

2 April 2025

This paper presents a hierarchical dispatcher architecture designed to efficiently schedule the execution of multiple deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices with heterogeneous processing units (PUs). The proposed architecture is applicable to sy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Security of Mobile and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,446 Views
19 Pages

DAG Hierarchical Schedulability Analysis for Avionics Hypervisor in Multicore Processors

  • Huan Yang,
  • Shuai Zhao,
  • Xiangnan Shi,
  • Shuang Zhang and
  • Yangming Guo

21 February 2023

Parallel hierarchical scheduling of multicore processors in avionics hypervisor is being studied. Parallel hierarchical scheduling utilizes modular reasoning about the temporal behavior of the upper Virtual Machine (VM) by partitioning CPU time. Dire...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technology of Intelligent Control and Simulation Evaluation)

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