Internet end-systems employ various adaptation mechanisms that enable them to respond adequately to legitimate requests in overload situations. Today, these mechanisms are incorpo...
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuti...
Power consumption is a troublesome design constraint for emergent systems such as IBM’s BlueGene /L. If current trends continue, future petaflop systems will require 100 megawat...
It has recently been asserted that the usability of a database is as important as its capability. Understanding the database schema, the hidden relationships among attributes in t...
Quoc Trung Tran, Chee-Yong Chan, Srinivasan Partha...
We analyze the modulation of a light field via nonrefracting attenuators. In the most general case, any desired modulation can be achieved with attenuators having four degrees of ...
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Amit K. Agrawal, Ramesh Raska...
In networked control systems the controller of a physicallydistributed plant is implemented as a collection of tightlyinteracting, concurrent processes running on a distributed ex...
Alessandro Pinto, Luca P. Carloni, Alberto L. Sang...