—Reversible contrast mapping (RCM) is a simple integer transform that applies to pairs of pixels. For some pairs of pixels, RCM is invertible, even if the least significant bits...
—Hash tables are extensively used in networking to implement data-structures that associate a set of keys to a set of values, as they provide O(1), query, insert and delete opera...
Sailesh Kumar, Jonathan S. Turner, Patrick Crowley
This paper presents an e cient hardware algorithm for variable-precision logarithm. The algorithm uses an iterative te chnique that employs table lookups and polynomial approximat...
Javier Hormigo, Julio Villalba, Michael J. Schulte
As the issue rate and depth of pipelining of high performance Superscalar processors increase, the importance of an excellent branch predictor becomes more vital to delivering the...
Chain replication is a new approach to coordinating clusters of fail-stop storage servers. The approach is intended for supporting large-scale storage services that exhibit high t...