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MOBIHOC
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Starvation mitigation through multi-channel coordination in CSMA multi-hop wireless networks
Existing multi-channel protocols have been demonstrated to significantly increase aggregate throughput compared to single-channel protocols. However, we show that despite such imp...
Jingpu Shi, Theodoros Salonidis, Edward W. Knightl...
WSC
2001
13 years 9 months ago
How "overstaffing" at bottleneck machines can unleash extra capacity
Using simulation, Headway Technologies predicted that increasing staffing among a group of already lightly loaded machine operators--"overstaffing"--would significantly ...
Robert C. Kotcher
MICRO
2010
IEEE
132views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Parichute: Generalized Turbocode-Based Error Correction for Near-Threshold Caches
Energy efficiency is a primary concern for microprocessor designers. A very effective approach to improving the energy efficiency of a chip is to lower its supply voltage to very ...
Timothy N. Miller, Renji Thomas, James Dinan, Bruc...
WSC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Using simulation for manufacturing process reengineering: a practical case study
This paper presents a simulation study carried out to solve a problem of manufacturing process reengineering. The specific company in which the study took place is a medium size m...
Lisete Silva, Ana Luisa Ramos, Pedro M. Vilarinho
DSS
2008
123views more  DSS 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Delayed multiattribute product differentiation
We develop a two-stage model for versioning products with respect to both vertical and horizontal attributes. At first, a firm positions its top-quality "flagship" produ...
Thomas A. Weber