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Book chapters

• Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, Reliability-Aware Power Management for Real-Time Embedded Systems, to appear in the Handbook of Energy-Aware and Green Computing, January, 2011
  
• Dakai Zhu, Bruce R. Childers, Daniel Mossé and Rami Melhem, Power Aware Mapping of Real-Time Tasks to Multiprocessors, in The Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms, and Applications (ISBN: 1584886234), Edited by Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and John Reif, CRC Press, 2007.
  
  

Journal Papers

· Dakai Zhu, Xuan Qi*, Daniel Mosse and Remi Melhem, An Optimal Boundary-Fair Scheduling Algorithm for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems, 71(2011) pp. 1411—1425, 2011

· Xuan Qi* and Dakai Zhu, Energy-Efficient Block-Partitioned Multicore Processors for Parallel Applications, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Special Issue on High-Performance Computing for Embedded Multicore Systems, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 418-433, May, 2011 [Link to the official version on Springer]

· Xuan Qi*, Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, Cluster Scheduling for Real-Time Systems: Utilization Bounds and Run-Time Overhead, Real-Time Systems: The International Journal of Time-Critical Computing Systems, Special Issue on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, vol.47, no. 3, pp. 253-284, May, 2011 [Link to the official version on Springer]

· Xuan Qi*, Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, Global Scheduling Based Reliability-Aware Power Management for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems, Real-Time Systems: The International Journal of Time-Critical Computing Systems, Special Issue on Energy Aware Real-Time Systems, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 109-142 March, 2011 [Link to the official version on Springer]

· Dakai Zhu, Reliability-Aware Dynamic Energy Management in Dependable Embedded Real-Time Systems, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 10, no. 2, Article 26 (27 pages), December, 2010 [Pre-print version]

· Baoxian Zhao, Hakan Aydin and Dakai Zhu, On Maximizing Reliability of Real-Time Embedded Applications under Hard Energy Constraint, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 316 - 328, Aug. 2010

· Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, Reliability-Aware Energy Management for Periodic Real-Time Tasks, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 1382 - 1397, Oct. 2009 [Pre-print version]

· Dakai Zhu, Rami Melhem and Daniel Mosse, Energy Efficient Redundant Configurations for Real-Time Parallel Reliable Servers. Real-Time Systems: The International Journal of Time-Critical Computing Systems, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 195 - 221, April, 2009 [Pre-print version]

· Dakai Zhu, Daniel Mosse and Rami Melhem. Power Aware Scheduling for AND/OR Graphs in Real-Time Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 849 - 864, 2004.

· Dakai Zhu, Rami Melhem, and Bruce R. Childers. Scheduling with Dynamic Voltage/Speed Adjustment Using Slack Reclamation in Multi-Processor Real-Time Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 686 - 700,  2003.

conference Papers

• Baoxian Zhao, Hakan Aydin and Dakai Zhu, Energy Management under General Task-Level Reliability Constraints. To appear in the Proc. of 18^th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Beijing, China, Apr. 16-19, 2012. (Acceptance rate: 23%)
  
  
• Mohammad A. Haque, Hakan Aydin and Dakai Zhu, Energy-Aware Standby-Sparing Technique for Periodic Real-Time Applications. in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Amherst, MA, Oct. 9-12, 2011. (Acceptance rate: 28%)
  
  
• Yifeng Guo*, Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, Reliability-Aware Power Management for Parallel Real-time Applications with Precedence Constraints, in the Proc. Of the Second International Green Computing Conference (IGCC), Orlando, FL, July 25-28, 2011. (Acceptance rate: 31%)
  
  
• Baoxian Zhao, Hakan Aydin and Dakai Zhu, Generalized Reliability-Oriented Energy Management for Real-Time Embedded Applications. in the Proc. of the 48th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Diego, CA, Jun. 5-10, 2011. (Acceptance rate: 23%)
  
  
• Xuan Qi*, Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, Global Reliability-Aware Power Management for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems, in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), Macau SAR, China, Aug. 23-25, 2010 (Acceptance rate: 36%)
  
  
• Xuan Qi*, Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, A Study of Utilization Bound and Run-Time Overhead for Cluster Scheduling in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems, in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), Macau SAR, China, Aug. 23-25, 2010 (Acceptance rate: 36%)
  
  
• Yifeng Guo*, Fanxin Kong, Dakai Zhu, Ali S. Tosun and Qingxu Deng, Sensor Placement for Lifetime Maximization in Monitoring Oil Pipelines, in the Proc. of the ACM/IEEE First International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), Stockholm, Sweden, Apr. 2010. (Acceptance rate: 28%)
  
  
• Baoxian Zhao, Hakan Aydin and Dakai Zhu, Enhanced Reliability-Aware Power Management through Shared Recovery Technique, in the Proc. of the IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, CA, Nov. 2009. (Acceptance rate: 26%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu, Yifeng Guo* and Ali Tosun, Multi-Path Planning for Mobile Element to Prolong the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks, in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), pp. 41--50, Beijing, China, Aug. 24-26, 2009. (Acceptance rate: 31%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu, Hakan Aydin and Jian-Jia Chen, Optimistic Reliability Aware Energy Management for Real-Time Tasks with Probabilistic Execution Times, in the Proc. of the 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'08), Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2008. (Acceptance rate: 23%) [updated version]
  
  
• Baoxian Zhao, Hakan Aydin and Dakai Zhu, Reliability-Aware Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Embedded Systems, in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'08), Lake Tahoe, CA, Oct. 12-15, 2008. (Acceptance rate: 34%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu, Xuan Qi* and Hakan Aydin, Energy Management for Periodic Real-Time Tasks with Variable Assurance Requirements, in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), Kaohsiung, Taiwan ROC, Aug. 25-27, 2008. (Acceptance rate: 26%)
  
  
• Xuan Qi* and Dakai Zhu, Power Management for Real-Time Embedded Systems on Block-Partitioned Multicore Platforms, in the Proc. of the International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), Chengdu, P.R.China, Jul. 29-31, 2008. Best Paper Award. (Acceptance rate: 18%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu, Xuan Qi* and Hakan Aydin, Priority-Monotonic Energy Management for Real-Time Systems with Reliability Requirements, in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'07), pages 629-635, Lake Tahoe, CA, Oct. 7-10, 2007. (Acceptance rate: 33%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, Reliability-Aware Energy Management for Periodic Real-Time Tasks, in the Proc. of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'07), Bellevue, WA, Apr. 2007. (Acceptance rate: 28%)
  
  
• Hakan Aydin, Vinay Devadas and Dakai Zhu, System-level Energy Management for Periodic Real-Time Tasks, in the Proc. of the 27th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'06), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 2006. (Acceptance rate: 24%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, Energy Management for Real-Time Embedded Systems with Reliability Requirements, in the Proc. of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD'06), San Jose, CA, Nov. 2006. (Acceptance rate: 24%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu, Reliability-Aware Dynamic Energy Management in Dependable Embedded Real-Time Systems, in Proc. of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'06), pages 397 - 407, San Jose, Apr. 2006. (Acceptance rate: 30%)
  
  
• Ruibin Xu, Dakai Zhu, Cosmin Rusu, Rami Melhem and Daniel Mossé, Energy Efficient Policies for Embedded Clusters, in Proc. of the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Language, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES'05), pages 1 - 10, Chicago, Jun. 2005.(Acceptance rate: 26%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu, Rami Melhem and Daniel Mossé, Energy Efficient Configuration for QoS in Reliable Parallel Servers, in Proc. of the Fifth European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC'05),pages 122 - 139, Budapest, Hungary, Apr. 2005. (Acceptance rate: 36%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu, Rami Melhem and Daniel Mossé, The Effects of Energy Management on Reliability in Real-Time Embedded Systems, in Proc. of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD'04), pages 35 - 40, San Jose, CA, Nov. 2004. (Acceptance rate: 24%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu, Rami Melhem, Daniel Mossé and E. (Mootaz) Elnozahy, Analysis of an Energy Efficient Optimistic TMR Scheme,  in International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'04), pages 559 - 568, Newport Beach, CA, Jul. 2004. (Acceptance rate: 30%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu, Daniel Mossé and Rami Melhem, Multiple-Resource Periodic Scheduling Problem: how much fairness is necessary? in Proc. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'03), pages 142 - 151, Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 2003.
  
  
• Ramish Mishra, Namrata Rastogi, Dakai Zhu, Daniel Mossé and Rami Melhem, Energy Aware Scheduling for Distributed Real-Time Systems, in International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'03), pages 21 - 29, Nice France, Apr. 2003. (Acceptance rate: 30%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu, Nevine AbouGhazaleh, Daniel Mossé and Rami Melhem, Power Aware Scheduling for AND/OR Graphs in Multi-Processor Real-Time Systems, in Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'02), pages 593-601, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, Aug., 2002. (Acceptance rate: 36%)
  
  
• Dakai Zhu, Rami Melhem, and Bruce R. Childers, Scheduling with Dynamic Voltage/Speed Adjustment Using Slack Reclamation in Multi-Processor Real-Time Systems, in IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'01), pages 84 - 94, London, England, Dec 2001

REFEREED Workshop/short Papers and Posters

· Yifeng Guo and Dakai Zhu, "Mixed-EDF Scheduling and Its Application to Energy Efficient Fault Tolerance in Real-Time Systems", in the Supplement Proc. of the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Work-in-Progress (WiP) session, Vienna, Austria, Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 2011.

· Dakai Zhu and Ali S. Tosun, "Adaptive Path Scheduling for Mobile Element to Prolong the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks", in the Supplement Proc. of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Work-in-Progress (WiP) session, St. Louis, MO, Apr. 21-24, 2008. Selected to appear in ACM SIGBED Review, Vol. 5-2, (July 2008)

· Frederick E. Diehl, Joshua J. Curtis*, Salvador J. Rodriguez*, Ali S. Tosun and Dakai Zhu, "Power Efficient Real-Time Data Collection Using Mobile Robots", in the Supplement Proc. of the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Work-in-Progress (WiP) session, Tucson, AZ, Dec. 3-6, 2007.

· Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, Low-Power Reliable Real-Time Embedded Systems, Austin Conference on Energy-Efficient Design (ACEED) 2007, supported by IBM. [poster]

· Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, Reliability Effects of Process and Thread Redundancy on Chip Multiprocessors, in Supplement Proc. of the IEEE Int'l Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) - Fast Abstracts, pages 212-213, Philadelphia, Jun. 2006.

Technical reports

· Xuan Qi*, Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin, Global Scheduling Based Reliability-Aware Power Management for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems, CS-TR-2010-014, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, Sept. 2010

· Xuan Qi* and Dakai Zhu, Energy Efficient Block-Partitioned Multicore Processors for Parallel Applications, CS-TR-2010-009, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, Jul. 2010

· Dakai Zhu, Xuan Qi*, Daniel Mossé and Rami Melhem , An Optimal Boundary Fair Scheduling Algorithm for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems, CS-TR-2009-005, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, Jun. 2009

· Dakai Zhu, Yifeng Guo* and Ali Tosun, Multi-Path Planning for Mobile Element to Prolong the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks , CS-TR-2008-016, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, Dec, 2008

· Dakai Zhu, Xuan Qi* and Hakan Aydin (GMU), Energy Management for Periodic Real-Time Tasks with Variable Assurance Requirements, CS-TR-2008-007, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, Jun. 2008

· Dakai Zhu and Ali Tosun, RF Communication for LEGO/Handy Board with Tmote, CS-TR-2008-006, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, May, 2008

· Dakai Zhu and Hakan Aydin (GMU), Reliability-Aware Energy Management for Periodic Real-Time Tasks , CS-TR-2008-005, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, Mar. 2008

· Dakai Zhu, Rami Melhem and Daniel Mossé, Energy Efficient Redundant Configurations for Reliable Servers in Distributed Systems;
CS-TR-2007-001, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, Feb. 2007

· Dakai Zhu, Reliability-Aware Dynamic Energy Management in Dependable Embedded Real-Time Systems; CS-TR-2006-001, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, Jan. 2006; (accepted by ACM TECS, May 2006).