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MASCOTS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
A Bandwidth-Efficient Scheduler for MPLS DiffServ Networks
DiffServ networks support three forwarding classes: EF, AF and BE. Scheduling algorithms based on priority queueing such as Cisco LLQ and MDRR seem to be a natural choice to provi...
Ximing Zeng, Chung-Horng Lung, Changcheng Huang, A...
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Execution-Driven Simulation of Network Storage Systems
A number of new network storage architectures have emerged recently that provide shared, adaptable and high-performance storage systems for dataintensive applications. Three commo...
Yijian Wang, David R. Kaeli
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Architecture Independent Performance Characterization and Benchmarking for Scientific Applications
A simple, tunable, synthetic benchmark with a performance directly related to applications would be of great benefit to the scientific computing community. In this paper, we prese...
Erich Strohmaier, Hongzhang Shan
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Disk Scrubbing in Large Archival Storage Systems
Large archival storage systems experience long periods of idleness broken up by rare data accesses. In such systems, disks may remain powered off for long periods of time. These s...
Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Da...
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
MC-CDMA Based IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN
In this paper, a modified version of the IEEE 802.11a protocol is proposed and evaluated. We combine MultiCarrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA), a novel, high capacity m...
Georgios Orfanos, Jörg Habetha, Ling Liu
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Simulating Internet Worms
The accurate and efficient modeling of Internet worms is a particularly challenging task for network simulation tools. The atypical and aggressive behavior of these worms can easi...
George F. Riley, Monirul I. Sharif, Wenke Lee
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
The N-Burst/G/1 Model with Heavy-Tailed Service-Times Distribution
This study introduces a new analytic queuing model, the N-Burst/G/1 model with heavy-tailed service-time distribution, which captures many of the issues that affect Web servers as...
Ronit Nossenson, Hagit Attiya
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Mining Performance Data from Sampled Event Traces
The prominent role of the memory hierarchy as one of the major bottlenecks in achieving good program performance has motivated the search for ways of capturing the memory performa...
Ricardo Portillo, Diana Villa, Patricia J. Teller,...
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Is TCP Packet Reordering Always Harmful?
IP networks do not provide any guarantee that packets belonging to the same flow are delivered in the correct order. It can be argued that out-of-order reception of packets is lim...
Giovanni Neglia, Vincenzo Falletta, Giuseppe Bianc...