New file systems are critical to obtain good I/O performance on large multiprocessors. Several researchers have suggested the use of collective file-system operations, in which ...
Feedback-directed optimization (FDO) is a general term used to describe any technique that alters a program's execution based on tendencies observed in its present or past ru...
In this work, we investigate the use of directional antennas and beam steering techniques to improve performance of 802.11 links in the context of communication between a moving v...
This research investigated the application of techniques successfully used in previous information retrieval research, to the more challenging area of medical informatics. It was ...
Andrea L. Houston, Hsinchun Chen, Bruce R. Schatz,...
The performance of most embedded systems is critically dependent on the memory hierarchy performance. In particular, higher cache hit rate can provide significant performance boos...