TC
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
—We consider the problem of realizing several common communication structures in the all-optical Partitioned Optical Passive Stars (POPS) topology. We show that, often, the obvio...
TC
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
—This paper describes a new signed-digit full adder (SDFA) circuit consisting of resonant-tunneling diodes (RTDs) and metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs)...
TC
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
There is increasing demand to extend object-oriented middleware, such as OMG CORBA, to support applications with stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. However, conventi...
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1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
—We describe a system-level simulation model and show that it enables accurate predictions of both I/O subsystem and overall system performance. In contrast, the conventional app...
TC
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
—Preventive maintenance of operational software systems, a novel technique for software fault tolerance, is used specifically to counteract the phenomenon of software “aging.â€...
TC
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
TC
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
—The FRIENDS system developed at LAAS-CNRS is a metalevel architecture providing libraries of metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication, and group-based distributed a...
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1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
—Let F2 denote the binary field and F 2 m an algebraic extension of degree m > 1 over F2 . Traditionally, elements of F 2 m are either represented as powers of a primitive ele...
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1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
—We evaluate three extensions to directory-based cache coherence protocols in shared-memory multiprocessors. These extensions are aimed at reducing the penalties associated with ...
TC
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
—Many built-in self-testing (BIST) schemes compress the test responses from a k-output circuit to q signature streams, where q << k, a process termed space compaction. The ...