Overload can reduce the overall performance of a computer system up to a point where the whole service might collapse. Thus, for example the load on a server must be controlled to...
As chip multiprocessors (CMPs) become increasingly mainstream, architects have likewise become more interested in how best to share a cache hierarchy among multiple simultaneous t...
Lisa R. Hsu, Steven K. Reinhardt, Ravishankar R. I...
The scarcity and large fluctuations of link bandwidth in wireless networks have motivated the development of adaptive multimedia services in mobile communication networks, where i...
In this paper, we analyze a wireless LAN hot-spot, based on the IEEE 802.11b protocol, and more specifically we address the issue of defining proper pricing strategies, from bot...