The e cient support of data tra c over ATM networks requires congestion control, whose objectives include maximizing throughput, minimizing switch bu er requirement, and attaining...
Informed prefetching and caching based on application disclosure of future I/O accesses (hints) can dramatically reduce the execution time of I/O-intensive applications. A recent ...
Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson
PVM and other distributed computing systems have enabled the use of networks of workstations for parallel computation, but their approach of treating all networks as collections o...
Ahybrid automatonis a formalmodelfor a mixeddiscrete-continuous system. We classify hybrid automata acoording to what questions about their behavior can be answered algorithmically...
Stochastic modeling forms the basis for analysis in many areas, including biological and economic systems, as well as the performance and reliability modeling of computers and comm...