Kernel coupling refers to the effect that kernel i has on kernel j in relation to running each kernel in isolation. The two kernels can correspond to adjacent kernels or a chain ...
Jonathan Geisler, Valerie E. Taylor, Xingfu Wu, Ri...
In this paper, the effect of switch design on the application performance of cache-coherent non-uniform memory access (CC-NUMA) multiprocessors is studied in detail. Wormhole rout...
Laxmi N. Bhuyan, Hu-Jun Wang, Ravi R. Iyer, Akhile...
The queueing Petri net (QPN) paradigm provides a number of benefits over conventional modeling paradigms such as queueing networks and generalized stochastic Petri nets. Using qu...
This paper proposes a new methodology to model the distribution of finite size content to a group of users connected through an overlay network. Our methodology describes the distr...
More and more software projects are using COTS (Commercialoff-the-shelf) components. Using COTS components brings both advantages and risks. To manage some risks in using COTS com...