UML2 and SysML try to adopt techniques known from software development to systems engineering. However, the focus has been put on modeling aspects until now and quantitative perfo...
—This paper presents an evaluation of the Quality of Service Signalling Layer Protocol (QoS-NSLP) of the NSIS (Next Steps In Signalling) protocol suite. The QoS-NSLP in combinati...
In multi-tier enterprise systems, application servers are key components to implement business logic and provide services. To support a large number of simultaneous accesses from ...
Performance evaluation of contemporary processors is becoming increasingly difficult due to the lack of proper frameworks. Traditionally, cycle-accurate simulators have been exte...
When architecting dependable systems, in addition to improving system dependability by means of construction (fault-tolerant and redundant mechanisms, for instance), it is also im...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson