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PODC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Quorum placement in networks to minimize access delays
A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
IPPS
1993
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
"Unstable Threads" Kernel Interface for Minimizing the Overhead of Thread Switching
The performance of threads is limited primarily by the overhead of two kinds of switching: vertical switching (user/kernel domain switching) and horizontal switching (context swit...
Shigekazu Inohara, Kazuhiko Kato, Takashi Masuda
ICPPW
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Active Streaming in Transport Delay Minimization
In this paper we present a technique for reducing response delay for web systems, which is based on a proactive cache scheme. It combines predictive pre-fetching and streaming to ...
Javed I. Khan
CASES
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Optimizing energy to minimize errors in dataflow graphs using approximate adders
Approximate arithmetic is a promising, new approach to lowenergy designs while tackling reliability issues. We present a method to optimally distribute a given energy budget among...
Zvi M. Kedem, Vincent John Mooney, Kirthi Krishna ...
NOSSDAV
2004
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
A framework for architecting peer-to-peer receiver-driven overlays
This paper presents a simple and scalable framework for architecting peer-to-peer overlays called Peer-to-peer Receiverdriven Overlay (or PRO). PRO is designed for non-interactive...
Reza Rejaie, Shad Stafford