Supporting high availability by checkpointing and switching to a backup upon failure of a primary has a cost. Trade-off studies help system architects to decide whether higher ava...
Traditional data structure designs, whether lock-based or lock-free, provide parallelism via fine grained synchronization among threads. We introduce a new synchronization paradi...
Danny Hendler, Itai Incze, Nir Shavit, Moran Tzafr...
In this paper we explore the packet starvation effect (PSE) that occurs in Ethernet controllers due to the unfairness of the CSMA/CD algorithm. The PSE causes some packets to expe...
Brian Whetten, Stephen Steinberg, Domenico Ferrari
We present and validate an enhanced analytical queueing network model of zoned RAID. The model focuses on RAID levels 01 and 5, and yields the distribution of I/O request response...
Abigail S. Lebrecht, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J...
This paper proposes to analyze two flow line systems in which we include possibilistic data -the priority-discipline is possibilistic instead of probabilistic- and measure the perf...