Architecture Of Computing Systems - Arcs 2008: 21st International Conference, Dresden, Germany, February 25-28, 2008, Proceedings (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2008, held in Dresden, Germany, in February 2008. The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum reaching from pre-fabrication adaptation of architectural templates to dynamic run-time adaptation of deployed systems with special focus on adaptivity and adaptive system architectures. The papers are organized in topical sections on hardware design, pervasive computing, network processors and memory management, reconfigurable hardware, real-time architectures, organic computing, and computer architecture. Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Keynote: Grand Challenges of Computer Engineering....Pages 3-3 Keynote: The Impact of Operating Systems on Modern CPU Designs (and Vice Versa)....Pages 5-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 System Level Simulation of Autonomic SoCs with TAPES....Pages 9-22 Topology-Aware Replica Placement in Fault-Tolerant Embedded Networks....Pages 23-37 Design of Gate Array Circuits Using Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 38-50 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Direct Backtracking: An Advanced Adaptation Algorithm for Pervasive Applications....Pages 53-67 Intelligent Vehicle Handling: Steering and Body Postures While Cornering....Pages 68-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 A Hardware Packet Re-Sequencer Unit for Network Processors....Pages 85-97 Self-aware Memory: Managing Distributed Memory in an Autonomous Multi-master Environment....Pages 98-113 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 Dynamic Reconfiguration of FlexRay Schedules for Response Time Reduction in Asynchronous Fault-Tolerant Networks....Pages 117-129 Synthesis of Multi-dimensional High-Speed FIFOs for Out-of-Order Communication....Pages 130-143 A Novel Routing Architecture for Field-Programmable Gate-Arrays....Pages 144-158 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 A Predictable Simultaneous Multithreading Scheme for Hard Real-Time....Pages 161-172 Soft Real-Time Scheduling on SMT Processors with Explicit Resource Allocation....Pages 173-187 A Hardware/Software Codesign of a Co-processor for Real-Time Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography on a Spartan3 FPGA....Pages 188-201 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 A Reference Architecture for Self-organizing Service-Oriented Computing....Pages 205-219 Towards Self-organising Smart Camera Systems....Pages 220-231 Using Organic Computing to Control Bunching Effects....Pages 232-244 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 A Generic Network Interface Architecture for a Networked Processor Array (NePA)....Pages 247-260 Constructing Optimal XOR-Functions to Minimize Cache Conflict Misses....Pages 261-272 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 Potentials of Branch Predictors: From Entropy Viewpoints....Pages 273-285 Back Matter....Pages -