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APCSAC
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Latency Improvement in Virtual Multicasting
Virtual multicasting (VMC) combines some of the benefits of caching (transparency, dynamic adaptation to workload) and multicasting (reducing duplicated traffic). Virtual multicas...
Philip Machanick, Brynn Andrew
MSS
2003
IEEE
104views Hardware» more  MSS 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
Using Multiple Predictors to Improve the Accuracy of File Access Predictions
Existing file access predictors keep track of previous file access patterns and rely on a single heuristic to predict which of the previous successors to the file being currently ...
Gary A. S. Whittle, Jehan-François Pâ...
LCN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Processor Availability in the MPI Implementation for the ASCI/Red Supercomputer
This paper describes how a portable benchmark suite that measures the ability of an MPI implementation to overlap computation and communication can be used to discover and diagnos...
Ron Brightwell, William Lawry, Arthur B. Maccabe, ...
ICMCS
2000
IEEE
116views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2000»
14 years 1 months ago
Non-linear Relevance Feedback: Improving the Performance of Content-Based Retrieval Systems
In this paper, a non-linear relevance feedback mechanism is proposed for increasing the performance and the reliability of content-based retrieval systems. In particular, the huma...
Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Anastasios D. Doulamis, Stef...
ICC
1997
IEEE
113views Communications» more  ICC 1997»
14 years 1 months ago
Improved Performance QPSK Demodulator for Digital Satellite Radio
: Practical realizations of the optimum closed loop structure for coherent demodulation of QPSK signals demands the approximation of the hyperbolic tangent nonlinearity (Tanh) with...
Alexandre G. Melo, Henrique J. A. da Silva