A link is an unreliable FIFO channel. As we mentioned earlier, it is an abstraction of a point-topoint wire or of a simple broadcast LAN. It is unreliable because noise or other ph...
This paper describes Tempest, a collection of mechanisms for communication and synchronization in parallel programs. With these mechanisms, authors of compilers, libraries, and ap...
We define external memory (or I/O) models which capture space complexity and develop a general technique for deriving I/O-space trade-offs in these models from internal memory mode...
Interactive television is a technology for delivering television programming on demand to households and businesses. Rather than passively choosing from a predetermined set of pro...