Numerous scheduling algorithms were and still are designed in order to handle multiprocessor architectures, raising new issues due to the complexity of such architectures. Moreover, evaluating them is difficult without a real and complex implementation. Thus, this paper presents a tool that intends to facilitate the study of schedulers by providing an easy way of prototyping. Compared to the ot...

This paper deals with the Tool Switching Problem (ToSP), a well-known problem in operations research. The ToSP involves determining a job sequence and the tools to be loaded on a machine with the goal of minimizing the total number of tool switches. This problem has been tackled by a number of algorithmic approaches in recent years. Here, we propose a memetic algorithm that combines a problem-s...

We present two novel algorithms at the ingress and egress of packet switches with QoS provisioning and fairness constraints. We first provide a suite of generalized weighted fair queuing formulations for output link scheduling, where the weights can be dynamically optimized under QoS constraints using the tool of geometric programming. We then provide a suite of active queue management formulat...

In this paper a new 5-level single phase symmetrical cascade multi-level inverter is proposed. The proposed topology contains combination of unidirectional and bidirectional power switches based on output voltage level number. The number of power switches and withstanding voltage of powers witches were reduced related to the other topologies. This configuration can be extended to the n-level in...