Scope of TC
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) is a scholarly archival journal published monthly with a wide distribution to researchers, developers, technical managers, and educators in the computer field. It publishes papers, brief contributions, and comments on research in areas of current interest to the readers. These areas include, but are not limited to, the following: a) computer organizations and architectures; b) operating systems, software systems, and communication protocols; c) real-time systems and embedded systems; d) digital devices, computer components, and interconnection networks; e) specification, design, prototyping, and testing methods and tools; f) performance, fault tolerance, reliability, security, and testability; g) case studies and experimental and theoretical evaluations; and h) new and important applications and trends. ISSN 0018-9340
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
FABRIZIO LOMBARDI Lombardi@ece.neu.edu
Associate Editor-in-Chief
CECILIA METRA cmetra@deis.unibo.it
Associate Editors
ELISARDO ANTELO, elisardo@dec.usc.es
JOHN K. ANTONIO, antonio@ou.edu
D.R. AVRESKY, autonomic@irianc.com
CRISTIANA BOLCHINI, bolchini@elet.polimi.it
CRISTIANA BOLCHINI, bolchini@elet.polimi.it
JIANER CHEN, chen@cs.tamu.edu
SHLOMI DOLEV, dolev@cs.bgu.ac.il
TAREK EL-GHAZAWI, tarek@gwu.edu
MOHAMED ELTOWEISSY, toweissy@vt.edu
SONIA FAHMY, fahmy@cs.purdue.edu
ALAN D. GEORGE, george@hcs.ufl.edu
KANAD GHOSE, ghose@cs.binghamton.edu
PHILLIP B. GIBBONS, phillip.b.gibbons@intel.com
PATRICK GIRARD, Patrick.Girard@lirmm.fr
DIMITRIS GIZOPOULOS, dgizop@unipi.gr
MAYA GOKHALE, maya@lanl.gov
CARL GUNTER, cgunter@illinois.edu
RAJIV GUPTA, gupta@cs.ucr.edu
LIZY KURIAN JOHN, ljohn@ece.utexas.edu
JOHN LACH, jlach@virginia.edu
VICTOR C.M. LEUNG, vleung@ece.ubc.ca
JOHN CHI-SHING LUI, cslui@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
ANNA LYSYANSKAYA, anna@cs.brown.edu
RADU MARCULESCU, radum@ece.cmu.edu
IGOR MARKOV, mei@imarkov@eecs.umich.edu
PATRICK MCDANIEL, mcdaniel@cse.psu.edu
ETHAN MILLER, elm@cs.ucsc.edu
PAOLO MONTUSCHI, Paolo.Montuschi@polito.it
WALID NAJJAR, najjar@cs.ucr.ed
SOTIRIS NIKOLETSEAS, nikole@cti.gr
STEPHAN OLARIU, olariu@cs.odu.edu
BEHROOZ PARHAMI, parhami@ece.ucsb.edu
NAGARAJAN RANGANATHAN, ranganat@cse.usf.edu
MICHAEL RAYNAL, raynal@irsa.fr
ERIC SCHWARZ, eschwarz@us.ibm.com
HONG SHEN, hong@cs.adelaide.edu.au
SANDEEP K. SHUKLA, shukla@vt.edu
SANG HYUK SON, son@cs.virginia.edu
SPYROS TRAGOUDAS, spyros@engr.siu.edu
YI-MIN WANG, ymwang@microsoft.com
JON WEISSMAN, jon@cs.umn.edu
CHENG-WEN WU, cww@ee.nthu.edu.tw
JIE WU, jiewu@temple.edu
YUANYUAN YANG, yang@ece.sunysb.edu
MAZIN YOUSIF, mazin.s.yousif@intel.com
ALBERT ZOMAYA, zomaya@it.usyd.edu.au