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USENIX
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Large-scale Virtualization in the Emulab Network Testbed
Network emulation is valuable largely because of its ability to study applications running on real hosts and "somewhat real" networks. However, conservatively allocating...
Mike Hibler, Robert Ricci, Leigh Stoller, Jonathon...
WSC
2007
15 years 9 months ago
The optimizing-simulator: merging simulation and optimization using approximate dynamic programming
There has long been a competition between simulation and optimization in the modeling of problems in transportation and logistics, machine scheduling and similar highdimensional p...
Warren B. Powell
USENIX
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Context-Aware Mechanisms for Reducing Interactive Delays of Energy Management in Disks
Aggressive energy conserving mechanisms can maximize energy efficiency, but often have the negative tradeoff of simultaneously reducing system responsiveness due to the switching ...
Igor Crk, Chris Gniady
WSC
2007
15 years 9 months ago
Organising insights into simulation practice
Developments in simulation methodology have been so successful that simulation methods are used in many different domains, and many of these applications are based on discrete eve...
Michael Pidd, Stewart Robinson
USENIX
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Evaluating Distributed Systems: Does Background Traffic Matter?
Evaluating novel networked protocols and services requires subjecting the target system to realistic Internet conditions. However, there is no common understanding of what is requ...
Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanath, Amin Vahdat