Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Books/Chapters

G. Quan and X. Hu, “Static Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scheduling", in Embedded Processor and System Design-A Low Power Perspective, J. Henkel and S. Parameswaran, (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, scheduled for publication in July 2007.
X. Hu and G. Quan, “Fundamentals of Power-Aware Scheduling," in Embedded Processor and System Design-A Low Power Perspective, J. Henkel and S. Parameswaran (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, scheduled for publication in July 2007.

Journals

B. Mochocki, X. Hu and G. Quan, “Transition overhead aware voltage scheduling for fixed-priority real-time systems,” ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. Vol 12, No 2, April 2007
G. Quan and X. Sharon Hu, “Energy efficient scheduling for real-time systems on variable voltage processors,” ACM Transactions on Embedded System Design, Vol 6, No. 2, September 2007
L. Niu and G. Quan, “System wide dynamic power management for weakly hard real-time systems”, Journal of Low Power Electronics, vol 2, No 3, 342-355, December 2006.
L. Niu and G. Quan, “A Hybrid Static/Dynamic DVS Scheduling for Real-time Systems With (m,k)-Guarantee”, IEEE Trans on Very Larges Scale Integration Systems. Special issue on Hardware/Software Co-design, 14(7), 717-729, 2006
G. Quan and L. Niu and B. Mochocki and X. Hu, “Fixed-Priority Scheduling for Reducing Both the Dynamic and the Leakage Energy on Variable Voltage Processors,” accepted to International Journal of Embedded Systems, Special issue on Low Power Real-Time Embedded Computing
G. Quan and G. Greenwood and D. Liu and X. Hu, “Scheduling for multiobjective preventive maintenance schedules: combining preferences with evolutionary algorithms”, European Journal of Optional Research, Vol 177, 1969-1984, 2007
B. Mochocki and X.S. Hu and G. Quan, “A unified approach to variable voltage scheduling for nonideal DVS processors,” IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design for Integrated Circuits and Systems, 23(9), 1370- 1377, 2004.
G. Quan and X. S. Hu, “Minimum Energy Fixed Priority Scheduling for Variable Voltage Processors,” IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design for Integrated Circuits and Systems. 22(8), 1062-1071, Aug 2003.

Selected Conferences

G. Quan and Y. Zhang and W. Wiles and P. Pei, “Guaranteed Scheduling for Repetitive Hard Real-Time Tasks Under The Maximal Temperature Constraint”, accepted to IEEE/ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (ISSS+CODES), 2008
Y. Zhang and G. Quan, “Enhancing the adaptivity for multi-core embedded systems with dynamic performance scaling in FPGA”, International workshop on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems, 2008
L. Niu and G. Quan, Peripheral-Conscious Scheduling on Energy Minimization for Weakly Hard Real-time Systems, IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2007.
L.Niu and G. Quan, System Wide Dynamic Power Management for Multimedia Portable Devices, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), 2006
L. Niu and G. Quan, A Hybrid Static/Dynamic DVS Scheduling for Real-time Systems With (m,k)-Guarantee, IEEE Real-Time System Symposium(RTSS), 2005
G. Quan and J. Davis and S. Devarkal and D. Buell, High-level synthesis for large bit-width multipliers on FPGAs: A case study, IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and Systems Synthesis (ISSS+CODES), 2005
B. Mochocki and X.S. Hu and G. Quan, Practical on-line DVS scheduling for fixed-priority real-time system, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2005
L. Niu and G. Quan. Leakage reduction for real-time scheduling on variable voltage processors, IEEE International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), 2004
G. Quan and L. Niu and X. S. Hu and B. Mochocki. Fixed priority scheduling for reducing overall energy on variable voltage processors, IEEE Real-Time System Symposium (RTSS), 2004.
G. Quan and L.W. Niu and J. P. Davis, Power Aware Scheduling for Real-Time Systems with (m,k)-Guarantee, Commuication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference (CNDS), 2004
Buell, D., J. Davis, G. Quan, S. Akella, S. Devarkal, P. Kancharla, E. Michalski, and H. Wake, "Experiences with a reconfigurable computer," International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA), 2004
B. Mochocki and X.S. Hu and G. Quan, A realistic variable voltage scheduling model for real-time applications, IEEE/ACM 2002 International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2002
G. Quan and X.S. Hu, Minimum Energy Fixed Priority Scheduling for Variable Voltage Processors, IEEE/ACM Design Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), 2002 Selected as one of The Most Influential Papers ( three out of total 476 submissions) for the year 2002 and collected in the book: The Most Influential Papers of 10 Years DATE, Lauwereins, R., Madsen, J. (Eds.), Springer, 2008.
G. Quan and X. S. Hu, Energy efficient fixed-priority scheduling for real-time systems on variable voltage processors, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), (Best Paper Award), pp 828-833, 2001.
G. Quan and X.S. Hu, "Enhanced fixed-priority scheduling with (m,k)-firm guarantee", IEEE Real-Time System Symposium (RTSS), pp 79-88, 2000.
X. Hu and G. Quan, "Fast performance prediction for periodic task systems", International Workshop on Hardware/Software Codesign(CODES), pp 72-76, 2000.
G. Quan, X. ( Sharon ) Hu, and G.Greenwood, "Preference-driven hierarchical hardware/software partitioning", IEEE/ACM Proceedings of International Conference On Computer Design(ICCD), pp 652-657, 1999.
X. Hu, G.W. Greenwood, S. Ravichandran, and G. Quan, "A framework for user assisted design space exploration", IEEE/ACM Proceedings of Design Automation Conference(DAC), pp 414-419, 1999.