1 Although processing speed, storage capacity and network bandwidth are steadily increasing, network latency remains a bottleneck for scientists accessing large remote data sets. T...
The performance of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) often suffers from link-layer frame losses caused by noise, interference, multipath, attenuation, and user mobility. We obs...
Allen K. L. Miu, Godfrey Tan, Hari Balakrishnan, J...
We are witnessing two trends in Web content access: (a) increasing amounts of dynamic and personalized Web content, and (b) a significant growth in “on-the-move” access using...
Many lock-free data structures in the literature exploit techniques that are possible only because state-of-the-art 64-bit processors are still running 32-bit operating systems an...
Simon Doherty, Maurice Herlihy, Victor Luchangco, ...
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