Guaranteeing response times of real-time (RT) distributed computing systems has been recognized as one of the biggest challenges by the RT software research community for three decades. The concept of a hybrid approach that combines analytical derivation approaches and testing-based statistical derivation approaches in a symbiotic form for meeting this challenge was presented in recent years. Howe...Show More
We present a new class of multimedia applications where the exploitation of the principle of global-time-based coordination of distributed actions (TCoDA) is compelling. In these applications, multiple small-footprint PCs, each equipped with its own speakers, act as instrument players or singers forming an ensemble. Each player PC obtains its piece of the musical audio data over an Ethernet networ...Show More
