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MASCOTS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Large-Scale Simulation of Replica Placement Algorithms for a Serverless Distributed File System
Farsite is a scalable, distributed file system that logically functions as a centralized file server but that is physically implemented on a set of client desktop computers. Farsi...
John R. Douceur, Roger Wattenhofer
MASCOTS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
HTTP Simulator Validation Using Real Measurements: A Case Study
Simulation is a common technique used by Web researchers and provides many benefits. Verification and validation of a simulator are essential if the results of those simulations a...
Brian D. Davison
MASCOTS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
PTPlan MPLS: A Tool for MPLS Network Dimensioning
This paper presents a tool for MPLS network dimensioning that allows for multi-hour dimensioning of networks supporting simultaneously peer-to-peer and client-server services. The...
Luís Cardoso, Jorge Patrão, Carlos L...
MASCOTS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Simulation Evaluation of a Heterogeneous Web Proxy Caching Hierarchy
This paper uses trace-driven simulations to evaluate the performance of different cache management techniques for multi-level Web proxy caching hierarchies. In particular, the exp...
Mudashiru Busari, Carey L. Williamson
MASCOTS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
A Bit-Parallel Search Algorithm for Allocating Free Space
File systems that allocate data contiguously often use bitmaps to representand managefree space. Increases in the size of storage to be managed creates a needfor eficient algorith...
Randal C. Burns, Wayne Hineman
MASCOTS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Packet Reading for Network Emulation
A network emulator, such as the Internet Protocol Traffic and Network Emulator (IP-TNE), enables real applications running on external hosts to interact via a virtual network mode...
Russell Bradford, Rob Simmonds, Brian Unger
MASCOTS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Aggregating Caches: A Mechanism for Implicit File Prefetching
We introduce the aggregating cache, and demonstrate how it can be used to reduce the number of file retrieval requests made by a caching client, improving storage system performan...
Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 6 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...