—In this paper, we argue that weak cache consistency mechanisms supported by existing Web proxy caches must be augmented by strong consistency mechanisms to support the growing d...
Deregulated wholesale markets for bulk electricity supplies are likely to deviate from the perfectly competitive ideal in many areas where transmission losses, costs and capacity ...
As main memory capacity increases, more of the database read requests will be satis ed from the bu er system. Consequently, the amount of disk write operations relative to disk re...
We propose a
ow-control scheme that combines the merits of credit- and rate-based
ow-control schemes by applying direct control over both bandwidth and buer resources. The goal...
In this paper we describe the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of a technique for operating system schedulers called processor pool-based scheduling [51]. Our tec...