Cloud environments often provide dynamic resource allocation techniques. These can be used to scale single components or even whole software systems according to their current workload. Fluctuating workloads can occur in different layers of the software architecture and need appropriate handling to meet performance requirements. Scaling workload-intensive components in combination with load-bal...

We present a system for real-time traffic support in infrastructure and ad-hoc IEEE 802.11 networks. The proposed Elastic MAC (E-MAC) protocol provides a distributed transmission schedule for stations with real-time traffic requirements, while allowing a seamless coexistence with standard IEEE 802.11 clients, protecting best-effort 802.11 traffic from starvation by means of admission control po...

Article history: Received 6 October 2011 Received in revised form 27 March 2012 Available online 12 June 2012

A recent technique can fabricate SiGe thin film islands on a glass layer, which itself lies on a silicon wafer. The islands initially have an inplane compressive strain. Upon annealing, the glass flows, and the islands relax. The resulting strain-free islands are used as substrates to grow epitaxial optoelectronic devices. This paper models the annealing process. A small island relaxes by inpla...

Experiments were conducted with SiGe film islands on a layer of borophosphorosilicate glass (BPSG). Initially the SiGe is under compression. Upon annealing, the glass flows and the SiGe islands relax by both inplane expansion and wrinkling. This paper provides a twodimensional (2D) model for inplane expansion. The results from the model are compared with the experiments with small SiGe islands....