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MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Bottleneck Estimation for Load Control Gateways
Providing Quality of Service (QoS) to inelastic data transmissions in a cost-efficient, highly scalable, and realistic fashion in IP networks remains a challenging research issue....
Krishna Pandit, Jens Schmitt, Martin Karsten, Ralf...
MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Multipath Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Issues and Challenges
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) consist of a collection of wireless mobile nodes which dynamically exchange data among themselves without the reliance on a fixed base station or a...
Stephen Mueller, Rose P. Tsang, Dipak Ghosal
MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Software Performance Modeling Using UML and Petri Nets
Abstract. Software systems are today one of the most complex artifacts, they are simultaneously used by hundred-thousand of people sometimes in risk real time operations, such as a...
José Merseguer, Javier Campos
MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Synthesizing Representative I/O Workloads Using Iterative Distillation
Storage systems designers are still searching for better methods of obtaining representative I/O workloads to drive studies of I/O systems. Traces of production workloads are very...
Zachary Kurmas, Kimberly Keeton, Kenneth Mackenzie
MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Using User Interface Event Information in Dynamic Voltage Scaling Algorithms
Increasingly, mobile computers use dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) to reduce CPU voltage and speed and thereby increase battery life. To determine how to change voltage and speed wh...
Jacob R. Lorch, Alan Jay Smith
MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Minimizing Packet Loss by Optimizing OSPF Weights Using Online Simulation
In this paper, we present a scheme for minimizing packet loss in OSPF networks by optimizing link weights using Online Simulation. We have chosen packet loss rate in the network a...
Hema Tahilramani Kaur, Tao Ye, Shivkumar Kalyanara...
MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Small-World Characteristics of the Internet and Multicast Scaling
Recent work has shown that the physical connectivity of the Internet exhibits small-world behavior. Characterizing such behavior is important not only for generating realistic Int...
Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros
MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
A Packet-Level Simulation Study of Optimal Web Proxy Cache Placement
The Web proxy cache placement problem is often formulated as a classical optimization problem: place N proxies within an internetwork so as to minimize the average user response t...
Gwen Houtzager, Carey L. Williamson
MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Zone-Based Shortest Positioning Time First Scheduling for MEMS-Based Storage Devices
Access latency to secondary storage devices is frequently a limiting factor in computer system performance. New storage technologies promise to provide greater storage densities a...
Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Etha...