We study the ‘background traffic’ resulting from tens of thousands of networked first person shooter (FPS) clients searching for servers on which to play. Networked, multiplay...
Sebastian Zander, David Kennedy, Grenville J. Armi...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing systems are characterized by highly replicated content distributed among nodes with enormous aggregate resources for storage and communication. Th...
Dan Dumitriu, Edward W. Knightly, Aleksandar Kuzma...
This paper examines the performance of simultaneous multithreading (SMT) for network servers using actual hardware, multiple network server applications, and several workloads. Us...
Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai, Erich M. Nahum, John M...
We present an optimized implementation of the linear scan register allocation algorithm for Sun Microsystems’ Java HotSpotTM client compiler. Linear scan register allocation is ...
Human-memorable passwords are a mainstay of computer security. To decrease vulnerability of passwords to bruteforce dictionary attacks, many organizations enforce complicated pass...