All Papers

Here is a list of all published Systems Software Research Group Papers.

2018

• Scaling Guest OS Critical Sections with eCS, S. Kashyap, C. Min, T. Kim, Proceedings of the 2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), July 2018, Boston, MA, USA (To Appear
• A Scalable Ordering Primitive For Multicore Machines, S. Kashyap, C. Min, K. Kim, T. Kim, The 2018 ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), April 2018, Porto, Portugal
• SOLROS : A Data-Centric Operating System Architecture for Heterogeneous Computing, C. Min, W. Kang, M. Kumar, S. Kashyap, S. Maass, H. Jo, T. Kim, The 2018 ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), April 2018, Porto, Portugal

2017

• AIRA: A Framework for Flexible Compute Kernel Execution in Heterogeneous Platforms, R. Lyerly, A. Murray, A. Barbalace, and B. Ravindran, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), 2017 (To Appear)
• PrVM: A Multicore Real-Time Virtualization Scheduling Framework With Probabilistic Timing Guarantees, K. Burns, V. Legout, A. Barbalace, and B. Ravindran, ACM SIGBED Review (To Appear)
• Designing New Operating Primitives to Improve Fuzzing Performance, W. Xu, S. Kashyap, C. Min, and T. Kim, Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2017), October 30-November 3, 2017, Dallas, TX, USA
• FLsched: A Lockless and Lightweight Approach to OS Scheduler for Xeon Phi, H. Jo, W. Kang, C. Min, and T. Kim, ACM Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2017), September 2, 2017, Mumbai, India
• Optimistic Transactional Boosting, A. Hassan, R. Palmieri, S. Peluso, and B. Ravindran, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), 2017
• Speeding up Consensus by Chasing Fast Decisions, B. Arun, S. Peluso, R. Palmieri, G. Losa, and B. Ravindran, The 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2017), June 26-29, 2017, Denver, CO, USA
• Transparent Fault-Tolerance using Intra-Machine Full Software Stack Replication, G. Losa, A. Barbalace, Y. Wen, M. Sadini, H-R. Chuang, and B. Ravindran, The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), June 5-8, 2017, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• A Distributed Operating System Network Stack and Device Driver for Multicores, B. M, Saif Ansary, A. Barbalace, B. Ravindran, T. Lazor, and H-R. Chuang, The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), Short paper, June 5-8, 2017, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• OS Support for Thread Migration and Distribution in the Fully Heterogeneous Datacenter, P. Olivier, S. Kim, and B. Ravindran, The 16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XVI), May 7-10, 2017, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
• Managing Resource Limitation of Best-Effort HTM, M. Mohamedin, R. Palmieri, A. Hassan, and B. Ravindran, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), 2016
• Swift Birth and Quick Death: Enabling Fast Parallel Guest Boot and Destruction in the Xen Hypervisor, V. Nitu, P. Olivier, A. Tchana, D. Chiba, A. Barbalace, D. Hagimont, and B. Ravindran, 13th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE 2017), April 8-9, 2017, Xi'an, China
• Breaking the Boundaries in Heterogeneous-ISA Datacenters, A. Barbalace, R. Lyerly, C. Jelesnianski, A. Carno, H. Chuang, V. Legout, and B. Ravindran, 22nd ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2017), April 8-12, 2017, Xi'an, China

2016

• Opacity vs TMS2: Expectations and Reality, S. Hans, A. Hassan, R. Palmieri, S. Peluso, and B. Ravindran, 30th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2016), September 26-30, 2016, Paris, France
• A Flattened Hierarchical Scheduler for Real-Time Virtualization, M. Drescher, V. Legout, A. Barbalace, and B. Ravindran, ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT 2016), October 2-7, 2016, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• HiperTM: High Performance, Fault-Tolerant Transactional Memory, S. Hirve, R. Palmieri, B. Ravindran, Theoretical Computer Science journal, To Appear
• Brief Announcement: A Family of Leaderless Generalized-Consensus Algorithms, G. Losa, S. Peluso, B. Ravindran, The 35th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2016), July 25-28, 2016, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Extending TM Primitives using Low Level Semantics, M. Saad, R. Palmieri, A. Hassan, B. Ravindran, The 28th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2016), July 11 - 13, 2016, Asilomar State Beach, California, USA
• Exploiting Parallelism of Distributed Nested Transactions, D. Niles, R. Palmieri, B. Ravindran, The 9th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR 2016), June 6-8, 2016, Haifa, Israel
• Making Fast Consensus Generally Faster, S. Peluso, A. Turcu, R. Palmieri, G. Losa, B. Ravindran, 46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2016), June 28 - July 1, 2016, Toulouse, France
• Lerna: Transparent and Effective Speculative Loop Parallelization, M. Saad, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing (TRANSACT 2016), March 12, 2016, Barcelona, Spain
• On Extending TM Primitives using Low Level Semantics, M. Saad, R. Palmieri, A. Hassan, and B. Ravindran, ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing (TRANSACT 2016), March 12, 2016, Barcelona, Spain
• On Designing NUMA-Aware Concurrency Control for Scalable Transactional Memory, M. Mohamedin, R. Palmieri, S. Peluso, and B. Ravindran, ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2016), Poster paper, March 12-16, 2016, Barcelona, Spain
• On Ordering Transaction Commit, M. Saad, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2016), Poster paper, March 12-16, 2016, Barcelona, Spain

2015

• Harnessing Energy Efficiency of Heterogeneous ISA Platforms, S.K. Bhat, A. Saya, H.K. Rawat, A. Barbalace, and B. Ravindran, The 2015 USENIX Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower 2015), Co-located with the 25th ACM SOSP, October 4, 2015, Monterey, California, USA
• Remote Transaction Commit: Centralizing Software Transactional Memory Commits, A. Hassan, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 2228-2240, July 1 2016
• Transactional Interference-less Balanced Tree, A. Hassan, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, 29th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2015), October 5-9, 2015, Tokyo, Japan
• On Open Nesting in Distributed Transactional Memory, A. Turcu, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-1, 2015
• On the Correctness of Optimistic Composable Data Structures, A. Hassan, S. Peluso, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, 7th Workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory (WTTM 2015), July 2015, Portland, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
• Transactional Interference-less Balanced Tree, A. Hassan, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, 10th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing (TRANSACT 2015), June 2015, Portland, Oregon, USA
• Disjoint-Access Parallelism: Impossibility, Possibility, and Cost of Transactional Memory Implementations, S. Peluso, R. Palmieri, P. Romano, B. Ravindran, and F. Quaglia, The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), July 2015, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
• Thread Migration in a Replicated-kernel OS, D. Katz, A. Barbalace, S. Ansary, A. Ravichandran, and B. Ravindran, The 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2015, Columbus, Ohio, USA
• On Preserving Data Integrity of Transactional Applications on Multicore Architectures, M. Mohamedin, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, The 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Short Paper, June 2015, Columbus, Ohio, USA
• On Exploiting Locality for Generalized Consensus, S. Peluso, A. Turcu, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, The 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Short Paper, June 2015, Columbus, Ohio, USA
• Brief Announcement: Managing Resource Limitation of Best-Effort HTM, M. Mohamedin, R. Palmieri, A. Hassan and B. Ravindran, 27th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), June 2015, Portland, Oregon, USA
• Brief Announcement: On Scheduling Best-Effort HTM Transactions, M. Mohamedin, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, 27th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), June 2015, Portland, Oregon, USA
• Popcorn: Bridging the Programmability Gap in Heterogeneous-ISA Platforms, A. Barbalace, M. Sadini, S. Ansary, C. Jelesnianski, A. Ravichandran, C. Kendir, A. Murray and B. Ravindran, The 2015 ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), April 2015, Bordeaux, France
• Transaction Execution Models in Partially Replicated Transactional Memory: The Case for Data-flow and Control-flow, Transactional Memory: Foundations, Algorithms, Tools and Applications, R. Palmieri, S. Peluso and B Ravindran, Book Chapter, ISBN 978-3-319-14719-2, Springer, 2015
• On Scheduling in Distributed Transactional Memory: Techniques and Tradeoffs, Handbook on Data Centers, J. Kim, R. Palmieri and B Ravindran, Book Chapter, ISBN: 978-1-4939-2091-4, Springer, 2015
• The Case for Resurrecting Distributed Virtual Shared Memory, B. M. S. Ansary, ACM Student Research Competition, 20th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
• Popcorn: a replicated-kernel OS based on Linux, A. Barbalace, B. Ravindran and D. Katz, Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS), July 2014, Ottawa, Canada
• Automated Data Partitioning for Highly Scalable and Strongly Consistent Transactions, A. Turcu, R. Palmieri, B. Ravindran and S. Hirve, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), vol. PP,no. 99, pp. 1-1, 2015
• An Automated Framework for Decomposing Memory Transactions to Exploit Partial Rollback, A. Dhoke, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, 29th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS), May 2015, Hyderabad, India
• On Reducing False Conflicts in Distributed Transactional Data Structures, A. Dhoke, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), January 2015, Goa, India
• Reducing Aborts in Distributed Transactional Systems through Dependency Detection, B. Zhang, B. Ravindran and R. Palmieri, 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), January 2015, Goa, India

2014

• On Developing Optimistic Transactional Lazy Set, A. Hassan, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, 18th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), December 15-19, 2014, Cortina, Italy
• Be General and Don't Give Up Consistency in Geo-Replicated Transactional Systems, A. Turcu, S. Peluso, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, 18th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), December 15-19, 2014, Cortina, Italy
• Speculative Client Execution in Deferred Update Replication, B. Arun, S. Hirve, R. Palmieri, S. Peluso and B. Ravindran, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing (MW4NG), workshop of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 15th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2014), December 8-12, 2014, Bordeaux, France
• Archie: A Speculative Replicated Transactional System, S. Hirve, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 15th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2014), December 8-12, 2014, Bordeaux, France
• Brief Announcement: On Breaching the Wall of Impossibility Results on Disjoint-Access Parallel STM, S. Peluso, R. Palmieri, P. Romano, B. Ravindran and F. Quaglia, 28th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2014), October 12-15, 2014, Austin, Texas
• Applying Source Level Auto-Vectorization to Aparapi Java, C. Albert, A. Murray and B. Ravindran, 2014 International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on Java Platform: Virtual Machines, Programming Languages, and Tools (PPPJ 2014), September 23-26, 2014, Cracow, Poland
• On Making Transactional Applications Resilient to Data Corruption Faults, M. Mohamedin, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, 13th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA14), August 21-23, 2014 Boston, USA
• KairosVM: Deterministic Introspection for Real-time Virtual Machine Hierarchical Scheduling, K. Burns, A. Barbalace, V. Legout, and B. Ravindran, Workshop on Virtualization for Real-Time Embedded Systems (VtRES 2014), September 16, 2014 Barcelona, Spain
• On Cache-Aware Task Partitioning for Multicore Embedded Real-Time Systems, A. Lindsay and B. Ravindran, 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS 2014), August 20-22, 2014, Paris, France
• Distributed Transactional Contention Management as the Traveling Salesman Problem, B. Zhang, B. Ravindran and R. Palmieri, 21th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2014), July 23-25, 2014, Hida Takayama, Japan
• Automated Data Partitioning for Highly Scalable and Strongly Consistent Transactions, A. Turcu, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, 7th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR 2014), June 10-12, 2014, Haifa, Israel
• Managing Soft-errors in Transactional Systems, M. Mohamedin, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, 19th IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems (DPDNS 2014), May 23, 2014, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
• Towards Operating System Support for Heterogeneous-ISA Platforms, A. Barbalace, A. Murray, R. Lyerly and B. Ravindran, 4th Workshop on Systems for Future Multicore Architectures (SFMA '14), April 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• On Breaching the Wall of Impossibility Results on Disjoint-Access Parallel STM, S. Peluso, R. Palmieri, P. Romano, B. Ravindran and F. Quaglia, Euro-TM Workshop on Transactional Memory (WTM 2014), April 13, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Integrating Transactionally Boosted Data Structures with STM Frameworks: A Case Study on Set, A. Hassan, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, 9th Workshop on Transactional Computing (TRANSACT 2014), March 2014, Utah, USA
• Remote Invalidation: Optimizing the Critical Path of Memory Transactions, A. Hassan, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, 28th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS 2014), May 19-23, 2014, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
• Optimistic Transactional Boosting, A. Hassan, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2014), Poster paper, February 15-19, 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA
• HiperTM: High Performance, Fault-Tolerant Transactional Memory, S. Hirve, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), January 2014, Coimbatore, India

2013

• Automated data partitioning for independent distributed transactions, A. Turcu, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 14th International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2013, Poster paper, December 9-13, 2013, Beijing, China
• SMASH: speculative state machine replication in transactional systems, S. Hirve, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 14th International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2013, Poster paper, December 9-13, 2013, Beijing, China
• On High Performance Distributed Transactional Data Structures, A. Dhoke, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 14th International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2013, Poster paper, December 9-13, 2013, Beijing, China
• A Page Coherency Protocol for Popcorn Replicated-kernel Operating System, M. Sadini, A. Barbalace, B. Ravindran, and F. Quaglia, 2013 Many-Core Architecture Research Community (MARC) Symposium, ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH), October 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
• On Transactional Memory Concurrency Control in Distributed Real-Time Programs, S. Hirve, A. Lindsay, B. Ravindran and R. Palmieri, IEEE Cluster 2013, September, 2013, Indianapolis, USA
• Adaptive Live Migration to Improve Load Balancing in Virtual Machine Environment, P. Lu, A. Barbalace, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures (FedICI 2013), 19th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), August, 2013, Aachen, Germany
• Hyflow2: A High Performance Distributed Transactional Memory Framework in Scala, A. Turcu, B. Ravindran and R. Palmieri, 10th International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on JAVA platform: virtual machines, languages, and tools (PPPJ 2013), September, 2013, Stuttgart, Germany
• On the Viability of Speculative Transactional Replication in Database Systems: a Case Study with PostgreSQL, S. Peluso, R. Palmieri, F. Quaglia and B. Ravindran, 12th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA13), August, 2013, Boston, USA
• HyflowCPP: A Distributed Transactional Memory Framework for C++, S. Mishra, A. Turcu, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, 12th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA13), August, 2013, Boston, USA
• Enhancing Concurrency in Distributed Transactional Memory through Commutativity, J. Kim, R. Palmieri and B. Ravindran, 19th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), August, 2013, Aachen, Germany
• On Closed Nesting and Checkpointing in Fault-Tolerant Distributed Transactional Memory, A. Dhoke, B. Ravindran and B. Zhang, 27th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2013, Boston, USA
• HSG-LM: Hybrid-Copy Speculative Guest OS Live Migration without Hypervisor, P. Lu, A. Barbalace, and B. Ravindran, 6th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR 2013), June/July, 2013, Haifa, Israel
• ByteSTM: Virtual Machine-level Java Software Transactional Memory, M. Mohamedin, B. Ravindran, and R. Palmieri, 15th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION 2013), June 2013, Firenze, Italy
• Scheduling Open-Nested Transactions in Distributed Transactional Memory, J. Kim, R. Palmieri, and B. Ravindran, 15th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION 2013), June 3-5, 2013, Firenze, Italy
• ByteSTM: Virtual Machine-level Java Software Transactional Memory, M. Mohamedin and B. Ravindran, 8th Workshop on Transactional Computing (TRANSACT 2013), March 2013, Houston, USA
• Scheduling Transactions in Replicated Distributed Software Transactional Memory, J. Kim and B. Ravindran, The 13th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid2013), May 2013, Delft, The Netherlands
• FBLT: A Real-Time Contention Manager with Improved Real-Time Schedulability, M. El-Shambakey and B. Ravindran, ACM Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE 2013), March 2013, Grenoble, France
• On Real-Time STM Concurrency Control for Embedded Software with Improved Schedulability, M. El-Shambakey and B. Ravindran, 18th ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2013), January 2013, Yokohama, Japan

2012

• A Framework Accommodating Categorized Multiprocessor Real-time Scheduling in the RTSJ, J. Kwon, H. Cho, and B. Ravindran, 10th International Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems (JTRES 2012), October 2012
• Transactional Forwarding: Supporting Highly Concurrent STM in Asynchronous Distributed Systems, M. Saad and B. Ravindran, 24th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), October 2012
• VPC: Scalable, Low Downtime Checkpointing for Virtual Clusters, P. Lu, B. Ravindran, and C. Kim, 24th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), October 2012
• HydraVM: Extracting Parallelism from Legacy Sequential Code Using STM, M. Saad, M. Mohamedin, and B. Ravindran, 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar 2012), June 2012
• On Open Nesting in Distributed Transactional Memory, A. Turcu and B. Ravindran, 5th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR), June 2012, Best Student Paper Award
• An Experimental Evaluation of Real-Time DVFS Scheduling Algorithms, S. Saha and B. Ravindran, 5th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR), June 2012
• STM Concurrency Control for Embedded Real-Time Software with Tighter Time Bounds, M. El-Shambakey and B. Ravindran, ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2012
• Scheduling Closed-Nested Transactions in Distributed Transactional Memory, J. Kim and B. Ravindran, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2012
• On Closed Nesting in Distributed Software Transactional Memory, A. Turcu, M. Saad, and B. Ravindran, ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing (TRANSACT), February 2012
• STM Concurrency Control for Multicore Embedded Real-Time Software: Time Bounds and Tradeoffs, M. El-Shambakey and B. Ravindran, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Embedded Systems, March 2012
• An Experimental Evaluation of the Scalability of Real-Time Scheduling Algorithms on Large-Scale Multicore Platforms, M. Dellinger, A. Lindsay, and B. Ravindran, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, vol. 17,no. 4.3, pp. 1-12, 2012
• Least-Latency Routing over Time-Dependent Wireless Sensor Networks, S. Lai and B. Ravindran, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 969-983, 2012
• Probability-based Prediction and Sleep Scheduling for Energy Efficient Target Tracking in Sensor Networks, B. Jiang, B. Ravindran, and H. Cho, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 735-747, 2012

2011

• A Quorum-Based Replication Framework for Distributed Software Transactional Memory, B. Zhang and B. Ravindran, International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2011), December 2011
• Enhancing the Performance of High Availability Lightweight Live Migration, P. Lu, B. Ravindran, and C. Kim, International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2011), December 2011
• ChronOS: A Best-Effort Real-Time Linux Kernel for Multiprocessors, M. Dellinger, P. Garyali, and B. Ravindran, ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC 2011), June 2011
• Snake: Control Flow Distributed Software Transactional Memory, M. Saad and B. Ravindran, International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2011), October 2011
• Supporting STM in Distributed Systems: Mechanisms and a Java Framework, M. Saad and B. Ravindran, ACM International Workshop on Transactional Computing (TRANSACT 2011), June 2011
• HyFlow: A High Performance Distributed Software Transactional Memory Framework, M. Saad and B. Ravindran, ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2011), Short Paper, June 2011
• An Automatic Presence Service for Low Duty-Cycled Mobile Sensor Networks, S. Lai and B. Ravindran, Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), June 2011
• Completely Distributed Particle Filters for Target Tracking in Sensor Networks, B. Jiang and B. Ravindran, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2011), May 2011
• Achieving Max-Min Lifetime and Fairness with Rate Allocation for Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks, S. Lai and B. Ravindran, Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 9, Issue 5, July 2011

2010

• On Transactional Scheduling in Distributed Transactional Memory Systems, J. Kim and B. Ravindran, International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2010), September 2010
• On Best-Effort Utility Accrual Real-Time Scheduling on Multiprocessors, P. Garyali, M. Dellinger, and B. Ravindran, International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2010), December 2010
• On Minimizing Average End-to-End Delay in P2P Live Streaming Systems, F. Huang, M. Khan, and B. Ravindran, International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2010), December 2010
• Self-organizing and Self-reconfigurable Event Routing in Ad Hoc Networks with Causal Dependency Awareness, G. Pei, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, To appear
• On Enhancing Concurrency in Distributed Transactional Memory, B. Zhang and B. Ravindran, Brief Announcement, ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2010), July 2010
• Distributed Queuing or Distributed Priority Queuing? On the Design of Cache-Coherence Protocols for Distributed Transactional Memory, B. Zhang and B. Ravindran, Brief Announcement, ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2010), July 2010
• Lightweight Live Migration for High Availability Cluster Service, B. Jiang, B. Ravindran, and C. Kim, International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2010), September 2010
• NAP: An Agent-based Scheme on Reducing Churn-Induced Delays for P2P Live Streaming, F. Huang, B. Ravindran, and M. Khan, IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2010), August 2010
• Dynamic Analysis of the Relay Cache-Coherence Protocol for Distributed Transactional Memory, B. Zhang and B. Ravindran, IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010), April 2010
• Achieving Max-Min Lifetime and Fairness with Rate Allocation for Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks, S. Lai and B. Ravindran, Ad Hoc Networks, To appear
• On Distributed Time-Dependent Shortest Paths over Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks, S. Lai and B. Ravindran, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2010), March 2010
• On Multihop Broadcast over Adaptively Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks, S. Lai and B. Ravindran, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2010), June 2010
• T-L Plane-Based Real-Time Scheduling for Homogeneous Multiprocessors, H. Cho, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, To appear
• Heterogeneous Quorum-based Wakeup Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks, S. Lai, B. Ravindran, and H. Cho, IEEE Transactions on Computers, To appear

2009

• An Approximation Algorithm for Minimum-Delay Peer-to-Peer Streaming, F. Huang, B. Ravindran, and A. Vullikanti, Ninth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2009), September 2009
• Relay: A Cache-Coherence Protocol for Distributed Transactional Memory, B. Zhang and B. Ravindran, International Conference On Principles Of DIstributed Systems (OPODIS 2009), December 2009
• CFlood: A Constrained Flooding Protocol for Real-Time Data Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks, B. Jiang, B. Ravindran, and H. Cho, International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009), Track on Sensor Networks, November 2009
• Recovering from Distributable Thread Failures in Distributed Real-Time Java, E. Curley, B. Ravindran, J. Anderson, and E. D. Jensen, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), To appear
• Utility Accrual Real-Time Scheduling for Multiprocessor Embedded Systems, H. Cho, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, To appear
• Location-Aware Cache-Coherence Protocols for Distributed Transactional Contention Management in Metric-Space Networks, B. Zhang and B. Ravindran, IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), September 2009
• On Real-Time Capacity of Event-driven Data-Gathering Sensor Networks, B. Jiang, B. Ravindran, and H. Cho, ACM International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services (ACM Mobiquitous), July 2009
• On Bounding Response Times under Software Transactional Memory in Distributed Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems, S. Fahmy, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, ACM Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), Real-Time Systems Track, April 2009
• Garbage Collector Scheduling in Dynamic, Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems, H. Cho, B. Ravindran, and C. Na, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2009, To appear
• Response Time Analysis of Software Transactional Memory-based Distributed Real-Time Systems, S. Fahmy, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Operating Systems, March 2009
• Opportunistic Real-Time Routing in MultiHop Wireless Sensor Networks, J. Kim and B. Ravindran, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Wireless Sensor Networks, March 2009
• On Scheduling Soft Real-Time Tasks with Lock-Free Synchronization for Embedded Devices, S. Lai, B. Ravindran, and H. Cho, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Embedded Systems, March 2009

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.
• 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
• 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
• 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

2007

• RTG-L: Dependably Scheduling Real-Time Distributable Threads in Large-Scale, Unreliable Networks, K. Han, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), December 2007
• Utility Accrual Real-Time Scheduling Under the Unimodal Arbitrary Arrival Model with Energy Bounds, H. Wu, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2007
• On Scheduling Garbage Collector in Dynamic Real-Time Systems with Statistical Timeliness Assurances, H. Cho, C. Na, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, Journal of Real-Time Systems, 2007
• Utility Accrual Real-Time Scheduling Under Variable Cost Functions, H. Wu, U. Balli, B. Ravindran, J. Anderson, E. D. Jensen, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2007, Volume 56, Number 3, pages 385-401, March 2007
• Space-Optimal Wait-Free Real-Time Synchronization, H. Cho, B. Ravindran, E. D. Jensen, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 56, Number 3, pages 373-384, March 2007
• Probabilistic, Real-Time Scheduling of Distributable Threads Under Dependencies in Ad Hoc Networks, K. Han, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC), March 2007
• Synchronization for an Optimal Real-Time Scheduling Algorithm on Multiprocessors, H. Cho, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES), 2007
• Exploiting Slack for Scheduling Dependent, Distributable Real-Time Threads in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, K. Han, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, International Conference on Real-Time and Network Systems (RTNS), pages 225-234, March 2007
• Consensus-Driven Distributable Thread Scheduling in Networked Embedded Systems, J. Anderson, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), December 2007
• Assured-Timeliness Integrity Protocols for Distributable Real-Time Threads with in Dynamic Distributed Systems, B. Ravindran, E. Curley, J. Anderson, and E. D. Jensen, International Workshop on Embedded Software Optimization (ESO), IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), December 2007
• Byzantine-Tolerant Point-To-Point Information Propagation in Untrustworthy and Unreliable Networks, K. Han, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2007
• On Distributed Real-Time Scheduling in Networked Embedded Systems in the Presence of Crash Failures, B. Ravindran, J. Anderson, and E. D. Jensen, IFIFP Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems (SEUS), IEEE ISORC, May 2007
• On Scheduling Exception Handlers in Dynamic Real-Time Systems, B. Ravindran, E. Curley, and E. D. Jensen, International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), Springer LNCS 4523, pages 510-529, May 2007
• On Best-Effort Real-Time Assurances for Recovering from Distributable Thread Failures, E. Curley, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE International Symposium on Object and component-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC), pages 344-353, May 2007

2006

• An Optimal Real-Time Scheduling Algorithm for Multiprocessors, H. Cho, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), December 2006
• Recovering from Distributable Thread Failures with Assured Timeliness in Real-Time Distributed Systems, E. Curley, J. Anderson, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), October 2006
• Lock-Free Synchronization for Dynamic Embedded Real-Time Systems, H. Cho, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), March 2006
• Utility Accrual, Real-Time Scheduling with Energy Bounds, H. Wu, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Embedded Systems, pages 933-934, April 2006
• Energy-Efficient, Utility Accrual Scheduling under Resource Constraints for Mobile Embedded Systems, H. Wu, B. Ravindran, E. D. Jensen, and P. Li, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
• A Utility Accrual Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Activities With Mutual Exclusion Resource Constraints, P. Li, H. Wu, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Volume 55, Issue 4, pages 454 - 469, April 2006
• Utility Accrual Real-Time Channel Establishment in Multi-hop Networks, K. Channakeshava, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Volume 55, Issue 4, pages 428 - 442, April 2006
• On Utility Accrual Processor Scheduling with Wait-Free Synchronization for Embedded Real-Time Software, H. Cho, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Embedded Systems, pages 918-922, April 2006
• Garbage Collector Scheduling in Dynamic, Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems, C. Na, H. Cho, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), August 2006
• On Multiprocessor Utility Accrual Real-Time Scheduling With Statistical Timing Assurances, H. Cho, H. Wu, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IFIP International Conference on Embedded And Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), August 2006
• Utility Accrual Real-Time Resource Access Protocols with Assured Individual Activity Timeliness Behavior, P. Li, H. Wu, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, International Conference on Real-Time and Network Systems (RTNS), May 2006
• On Scheduling Garbage Collector in Dynamic Real-Time Systems With Statistical Timeliness Assurances, H. Cho, C. Na, B. Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, IEEE International Symposium on Object and component-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC), April 2006
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