In most graphical user interfaces, a substantial part of the user's interaction involves targeting screen objects with the mouse cursor. Targeting tasks with small targets ar...
In this article, we present some results on the communication performance of TCP/IP in a cluster of Pentium based workstations connected by a Gigabit Ethernet network. The experim...
Performance is a pervasive quality of software systems; everything affects it, from the software itself to all underlying layers, such as operating system, middleware, hardware, c...
Component-based development has emerged as an effective approach to building flexible systems, but there is little experience in applying this approach to Grid programming. This p...
Nikos Parlavantzas, Matthieu Morel, Vladimir Getov...
In this paper, we propose an accurate analytical model to analyze the performance of initial ranging requests in IEEE 802.16 networks. Two metrics, connection probability and aver...