Today, we congratulate Hazem Ali for having his first paper accepted at RTCSA. The paper is entitled “Critical-Path-First Based Allocation of Real-Time Streaming Applications on 2D Mesh-Type Multi-Cores” and proposes a mapping strategy for streaming applications, represented as acyclic data-flow graphs with throughput requirements, to multi-core architectures under partitioned EDF scheduling. The key idea is to first map tasks on the critical-paths of the application to minimize their execution time and thereby increasing the chance to satisfy the throughput constraint. The camera-ready version is available here.
Hazem Ali is a PhD student at the CISTER-ISEP Research Unit in Porto, supervised by Luis Miguel Pinho and myself, and this paper is a result of my six month visit there last year and the fruitful collaboration it has resulted in afterwards.