While microprocessor designers turn to multicore architectures to sustain performance expectations, the dramatic increase in parallelism of such architectures will put substantial...
Susmit Biswas, Diana Franklin, Alan Savage, Ryan D...
While peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing is a powerful and cost-effective content distribution model, most paid-for digital-content providers (CPs) use direct download to deliver th...
Alex Sherman, Angelos Stavrou, Jason Nieh, Angelos...
Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) memory systems suffer from the effects of destructive thread interference. This interference reduces performance predictability because it depends heavil...
Business and economic considerations are driving the extensive use of service differentiation in Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) operated for business enterprises today. The resul...
Yu-Wei Eric Sung, Carsten Lund, Mark Lyn, Sanjay G...
Many emerging scientific and industrial applications require transferring multiple Tbytes of data on a daily basis. Examples include pushing scientific data from particle accele...
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Pablo Ro...