Identifying the true type of a computer file can be a difficult problem. Previous methods of file type recognition include fixed file extensions, fixed “magic numbers” stored ...
For concurrent I/O operations, atomicity defines the results in the overlapping file regions simultaneously read/written by requesting processes. Atomicity has been well studied...
Wei-keng Liao, Alok N. Choudhary, Kenin Coloma, Ge...
Abstract. Bounded fairness is a stronger notion than ordinary eventuality-based fairness, one that guarantees occurrence of an event within a fixed number of occurrences of anothe...
Nachum Dershowitz, D. N. Jayasimha, Seungjoon Park
Memory performance is increasingly determining microprocessor performance and technology trends are exacerbating this problem. Most architectures use set-associative caches with L...
Zhenlin Wang, Kathryn S. McKinley, Arnold L. Rosen...
—The design of a wireless local area network (WLAN) has an important issue of determining the optimal placement of access points (APs) and assignment of channels to them. WLAN se...