The big challenge related to the contemporary research on ubiquitous and pervasive computing is that of seamless integration. For the next generation of ubiquitous and distributed...
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Cache memories have been extensively used to bridge the gap between high speed processors and relatively slower main memories. However, they are sources of predictability problems...
Software Engineers frequently need to locate and understand the code that implements a specific user feature of a large system. This paper reports on a study by Motorola Inc. and ...
Michael Jiang, Michael Groble, Sharon Simmons, Den...
Extensive empirical studies presented in this paper confirm that the quality of radio communication between low power sensor devices varies significantly with time and environme...
Shan Lin, Jingbin Zhang, Gang Zhou, Lin Gu, John A...