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MASCOTS
2004
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Performance Engineering with the UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance and Time: A Case Study
We describe the application of a performance engineering methodology based on UML diagrams with annotations taken from the Profile for Schedulability, Performance and Time. The me...
Andrew J. Bennett, A. J. Field
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Bottlenecks Identification in Multiclass Queueing Networks Using Convex Polytopes
It is known that the resources that limit the overall performance of the system are the congested ones, referred to as bottlenecks. From the knowledge of the bottleneck stations w...
Giuliano Casale, Giuseppe Serazzi
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Assessing the Effectiveness of IEEE 802.11e in Multi-Hop Mobile Network Environments
The IEEE 802.11e technology is receiving much interest due to the promising enhancements it will offer to wireless local area networks in terms of QoS support. Until now, research...
Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate, Pietro Manzoni, Ma...
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Predicting When Not to Predict
File prefetching based on previous file access patterns has been shown to be an effective means of reducing file system latency by implicitly loading caches with files that are li...
Karl Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Systems: Workload Characterization and Effects on Traffic Cacheability
Peer-to-peer file sharing networks have emerged as a new popular application in the Internet scenario. In this paper, we provide an analytical model of the resources size and of t...
Mauro Andreolini, Riccardo Lancellotti, Philip S. ...
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Structured Stochastic Modeling of Fault-Tolerant Systems
Fault-tolerant mechanisms have been increasingly used to develop safety-critical systems in the past years. Therefore the accurate description of these mechanisms is crucial if we...
Cristiano Bertolini, Leonardo Brenner, Paulo Ferna...
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Routing in an Internet-Scale Network Emulator
One of the primary challenges facing scalable network emulation and simulation is the overhead of storing network-wide routing tables or computing appropriate routes on a per-pack...
Jay Chen, Diwaker Gupta, Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanat...