The 3rd generation mobile cellular communication systems will provide highcapacity bandwidth, enabling rich media and even TV services to be accessible via mobile handheld devices...
Overlays have been proposed as a means to improve application performance in many areas, including multimedia streaming and content distribution. Some overlays use parallel transm...
Lili Wang, Jim Griffioen, Kenneth L. Calvert, Sher...
This study examines the potential applications of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis (REH) in information technology (IT) investment and adoption decisionmaking. Although REH ha...
This paper investigates how dynamic branch prediction in a microprocessor affects the predictability of execution time for software running on that processor. By means of experim...
Recent research on processor microarchitecture suggests using instruction criticality as a metric to guide hardware control policies. Fields et al. [3, 4] have proposed a directed...