This issue documents papers previously presented at the FeBID 2006
Workshop, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, on April 3rd, 2006. The
rapid development and pervasive deployment of information technology
(IT) has created a need for formal approaches to enforce service and
resource management policies. A central concern in this enforcement is
the design and implementation of feedback control systems, such as TCP
adaptation to network congestion and web server adaptation to flash
crowds. Existing practice for the design of feedback control systems for
IT largely relies on ad-hoc techniques. As a result, changes in
workloads and/or configurations often result in poor quality of service
(QoS) or even instabilities. Other areas of engineering (e.g.,
mechanical, electrical, aeronautic) design feedback control systems
using methodologies based on control theory, a formal approach to
designing feedback control systems. Indeed, in the past five years,
there has been considerable success with applying control theory to
analyzing and designing feedback control in IT systems. This special
issue focuses on advances in the application of control theory to
computing systems and networks.
Editors:
Joseph L. Hellerstein, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Xiaoyun Zhu, HP Labs
Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois
Welcome to the SIGBED Review. The peer-reviewed quarterly publication
provides a dissemination forum for research on embedded computing. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, embedded software, embedded system
architecture, model-based design, distributed real-time middleware, real-time
architectures, feedback control, low-power computing, sensor networks, security,
and embedded applications. Submissions on these and other topics should be sent
by e-mail to Tarek Abdelzaher,
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