In the last few years an interest in native XML databases has surfaced. With other authors we argue that such databases need their own provisions for concurrency control since tra...
—In-network aggregation has become a promising technique for improving the energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks. Aggregating data at various nodes in the network result...
: This paper examines the argument for dataflow architectures in "Two Fundamental Issues in Multiprocessing[5]." We observe two key problems. First, the justification of ...
Disk schedulers in current operating systems are generally work-conserving, i.e., they schedule a request as soon as the previous request has finished. Such schedulers often requ...
Utilizing the nonuniform latencies of SDRAM devices, access reordering mechanisms alter the sequence of main memory access streams to reduce the observed access latency. Using a r...