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WDAG
2010
Springer
196views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2010»
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Brief Announcement: Failure Detectors Encapsulate Fairness
Abstract. We argue that failure detectors encapsulate fairness. Fairness is a measure of the number of steps a process takes relative to another processes and/or messages in transi...
Scott M. Pike, Srikanth Sastry, Jennifer L. Welch
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Oversubscription on multicore processors
Abstract: Existing multicore systems already provide deep levels of thread parallelism. Hybrid programming models and composability of parallel libraries are very active areas of r...
Costin Iancu, Steven Hofmeyr, Filip Blagojevic, Yi...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
172views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Architectural Support for Fair Reader-Writer Locking
Abstract--Many shared-memory parallel systems use lockbased synchronization mechanisms to provide mutual exclusion or reader-writer access to memory locations. Software locks are i...
Enrique Vallejo, Ramón Beivide, Adriá...
OPODIS
2010
13 years 5 months ago
An Adaptive Technique for Constructing Robust and High-Throughput Shared Objects
Abstract. Shared counters are the key to solving a variety of coordination problems on multiprocessor machines, such as barrier synchronization and index distribution. It is desire...
Danny Hendler, Shay Kutten, Erez Michalak
SECON
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
SAND: Sectored-Antenna Neighbor Discovery Protocol for Wireless Networks
Abstract--Directional antennas offer many potential advantages for wireless networks such as increased network capacity, extended transmission range and reduced energy consumption....
Emad Felemban, Robert Murawski, Eylem Ekici, Sangj...