ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Modern embedded systems integrate more and more complex functionalities. At the same time, the semiconductor technology advances enable to increase the amount of hardware resources on a chip for the execution. Massively parallel embedded systems ...

In this article, we propose an application-specific demand paging mechanism for low-end embedded systems that have flash memory as secondary storage. These systems are not equipped with virtual memory. A small memory space called an execution buffer is ...

Group communication has proven a powerful paradigm for designing applications and services in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Given the tight interaction between WSNs and the physical world, a security infringement may translate into a safety ...

Embedded systems use specialized hardware devices to interact with their environment, and since they have to be dependable, it is attractive to use a modern, type-safe programming language like Java to develop programs for them. Standard Java, as a ...

Inexpensive, reliable hard disk storage is increasingly required in both businesses and the home. As disk capacities increase and multiple drives are combined in one system the probability of multiple disk failures increases. Through the adoption of ...

Traditionally, runtime management involving CPU sharing, real-time scheduling, etc., is provided by the runtime environment (typically an operating system) using hardware support such as timers and interrupts. However, due to stringent performance ...

This article presents a reconfigurable network-on-chip architecture called ReNoC, which is intended for use in general-purpose multiprocessor system-on-chip platforms, and which enables application-specific logical NoC topologies to be configured, thus ...

We propose an adaptive scheduling technique to schedule highly dynamic multimedia tasks on a CPU. We use a combination of two techniques: the first one is a feedback mechanism to track the resource requirements of the tasks based on “local” ...

Integrating register allocation and software pipelining of loops is an active research area. We focus on techniques that precondition the dependence graph before software pipelining in order to ensure that no register spill instructions are inserted by ...

As wireless devices and sensors are increasingly deployed on people, researchers have begun to focus on wireless body-area networks. Applications of wireless body sensor networks include healthcare, entertainment, and personal assistance, in which ...