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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...
MASCOTS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Nine months in the life of EGEE: a look from the South
Abstract— Grids have emerged as wide-scale, distributed infrastructures providing enough resources for always more demanding scientific experiments. EGEE is one of the largest s...
Georges Da Costa, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Salvatore O...
MASCOTS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Improving the Performance of Passive Network Monitoring Applications using Locality Buffering
—In this paper, we present a novel approach for improving the performance of a large class of CPU and memory intensive passive network monitoring applications, such as intrusion ...
Antonis Papadogiannakis, Demetres Antoniades, Mich...
MASCOTS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Multiobjective Analysis in Wireless Mesh Networks
Abstract— Wireless Mesh Networks are a scalable and costeffective solution for next-generation wireless networking. In the present work, we consider the Round Weighting Problem (...
Cristiana Gomes, Gurvan Huiban
MASCOTS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Network Performance Analysis based on Histogram Workload Models
Network performance analysis relies mainly on two models: a workload model and a performance model. This paper proposes to use histograms for characterising the arrival workloads ...
Enrique Hernández-Orallo, Joan Vila-Carb&oa...
MASCOTS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
An Autonomic Admission Control Policy for Distributed Web Systems
Novella Bartolini, Gian Carlo Bongiovanni, Simone ...