An effective method for focusing optimization effort on the most important parts of a design is to examine those elements on the critical path. Traditionally, the critical path is...
In this work we address the problem of managing interconnect timing in high-level synthesis by generating a layoutfriendly microarchitecture. A metric called spreading score is pr...
161 views111 votes14 years 11 months ago ISOLA 2010»
Safety-critical distributed real-time systems, such as networked medical devices, must operate according to their specification, because incorrect behaviour can have fatal conseque...
: Monitoring is a fundamental building block of any network management system. It is needed to ensure that the network operates within the required parameters, and to account for u...
133 views102 votes15 years 6 months ago ACSAC 2003»
1 DOD Joint Vision 2020 (JV2020) is the integrated multi-service planning document for conduct among coalition forces of future warfare. It requires the confluence of a number of k...
109 views129 votes15 years 7 months ago HOTI 2005»
: The exposed memory hierarchies employed in many network processors (NPs) are expensive in terms of meeting the worst-case processing requirement. Moreover, it is difficult to ef...
Abstract-Maintaining optimal consistency in a distributed system requires that nodes be always-on to synchronize information. Unfortunately, mobile devices such as laptops do not h...
136 views100 votes15 years 2 months ago USENIX 2004»
The common usage patterns of 2D drivers for the X Window System have changed over time. New extensions such as Render and Composite are creating new demands for 2D rendering which...
252 views160 votes14 years 5 months ago HICSS 2011»
All-at-once Scrum implementations require total commitment to change, high level management support and aggressive removal of impediments. Several company-wide implementations are...
165 views106 votes15 years 2 months ago BNCOD 1998»
Current database management system technology is unable to provide adequate support for Nomadic Computing. Mobile applications require systems which are sufficiently lightweight an...