SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Work stealing is a popular method of scheduling fine-grained parallel tasks. The performance of work stealing has been extensively studied, both theoretically and empirically, but...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Denial of service (DoS) attacks are arguably one of the most cumbersome problems in the Internet. This paper presents a distributed information system (over a set of completely co...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Transactional memory (TM) eliminates many problems associated with lock-based synchronization. Over recent years, much progress has been made in software and hardware implementati...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Modern peer-to-peer file sharing systems distribute large files among peers using block partitioning. Blocks can be redistributed by a peer even before the whole file is available...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
We consider the setting of a multiprocessor where the speeds of the m processors can be individually scaled. Jobs arrive over time and have varying degrees of parallelizability. A...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
In this paper, we explore the problem of mapping filtering streaming applications on large-scale homogeneous platforms, with a particular emphasis on communication models and thei...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
We consider buffer management of unit packets with deadlines for a multi-port device with reconfiguration overhead. The goal is to maximize the throughput of the device, i.e., the...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
We present three new reader-writer lock algorithms that scale under high read-only contention. Many previous reader-writer locks suffer significant degradation when many readers a...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Designing an overlay network for publish/subscribe communication in a system where nodes may subscribe to many different topics of interest is of fundamental importance. For scala...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
In order to be efficient with selfish programmers, a multicore transactional memory (TM) system must be designed such that it is compatible with good programming incentives (GPI),...