Publications

Books/Chapters

• G. Quan and X. Hu, “Minimum Energy Fixed-Priority Scheduling for Variable Voltage Processors,” in Design, Automation, and Test in Europe  – The Most Influential Papers of 10 Years DATE, R. Lauwereins and J. Madsen (Eds.), Springer, March 2008.
• 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, “Leakage Aware Feasibility Analysis for Temperature-Constrained Hard Real-Time Periodic Tasks”, 21^st Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS’09), 2009 (acceptance ratio: 25%)

• G. Quan and Y. Zhang and W. Wiles and P. Pei, “Guaranteed Scheduling for Repetitive Hard Real-Time Tasks Under The Maximal Temperature Constraint”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (ISSS+CODES), 2008 (acceptance ratio: 31%)

• 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 (acceptance ratio: 50%)
• 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. (acceptance ratio: 28%)
• L.Niu and G. Quan, System Wide Dynamic Power Management for Multimedia Portable Devices, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), 2006 (acceptance ratio: 35%)
• 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 (acceptance ratio: 20%)
• 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 (acceptance ratio: 25%)
• 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 (acceptance ratio: 33%)
• 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 (acceptance ratio: 30%)
• 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.  (acceptance ratio: 22%)
• 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.