This paper develops simple cost models for provisioning content distribution networks that use the simple and highly scalable bandwidth skimming protocol for streaming. New insight...
Jussara M. Almeida, Derek L. Eager, Michael C. Fer...
This paper analyzes and quantifies the locality characteristics of numerical loop nests in order to suggest future directions for architecture and software cache optimizations. Si...
The emergence of global-scale online services has galvanized scale-out software, characterized by splitting vast datasets and massive computation across many independent servers. ...
Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, Boris Grot, Michael Ferdman, ...
Abstract. The optimization and design of two different types of photonic devices - a Fibre Bragg Grating and a Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibre is presented in light of multi...
Steven Manos, Leon Poladian, Peter J. Bentley, Mar...
Local search algorithms are one of the effective methods for solving hard combinatorial problems. However, a serious problem of this approach is that the search often traps at loca...