As dependence on the World Wide Web continues to grow, so does the need for businesses to have quantitative measures of the client perceived response times of their Web services. ...
This paper discusses the use of a parallel discrete-event network emulator called the Internet Protocol Traffic and Network Emulator (IP-TNE) for Web server benchmarking. The expe...
Rob Simmonds, Carey L. Williamson, Russell Bradfor...
As integrated circuits are scaled down it becomes difficult to maintain uniformity in process parameters across each individual die. The resulting performance variation requires ...
N. Pete Sedcole, Justin S. Wong, Peter Y. K. Cheun...
— In this paper, we propose a simple but effective VPN mechanism called RING-VPN (Ring-based Virtual Private Network) that realizes a high scalability in terms of the number of V...
Many computer hardware and software architectures buffer data in memory to improve system performance. Volatile disk or file caches are sometimes used to delay the propagation of ...