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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
There's always one!: modelling outlying user performance
Informal analysis of many usability tests suggests that there is regularly one participant that is substantially slower than all the others. Moreover, such outliers are more extre...
Julie Schiller, Paul A. Cairns
DSN
2006
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
Performance Assurance via Software Rejuvenation: Monitoring, Statistics and Algorithms
We present three algorithms for detecting the need for software rejuvenation by monitoring the changing values of a customer-affecting performance metric, such as response time. A...
Alberto Avritzer, Andre B. Bondi, Michael Grottke,...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Performance Model of Speculative Prefetching in Distributed Information Systems
Previous studies in speculative prefetching focus on building and evaluating access models for the purpose of access prediction. This paper investigates a complementary area which...
Nor Jaidi Tuah, Mohan Kumar, Svetha Venkatesh
ICC
2008
IEEE
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16 years 1 months ago
A Performance Study of Mobile Handoff Delay in IEEE 802.11-Based Wireless Mesh Networks
— Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have recently emerged to be a cost-effective solution to support large-scale wireless Internet access. One important component of realizing large-...
Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa, Jiang Xie
CISIS
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Obtaining Performance Measures through Microbenchmarking in a Peer-to-Peer Overlay Computer
: The availability of enormous amounts of un-used computing power and data storage over the In-ternet makes the development of a globally distributed computing platform, called Ove...
Paolo Bertasi, Mauro Bianco, Andrea Pietracaprina,...