Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
In recent years, rapid technological advances have changed how many existing tasks are performed. For example, the combination of virtual environments and the Internet is presenti...
Margaret McLaughlin, Roger Zimmermann, Leslie S. L...
—Bowman is an extensible platform for active networking: it layers active-networking functionality in user-space software over variants of the System V UNIX operating system. The...
Shashidhar Merugu, Samrat Bhattacharjee, Ellen W. ...
Quality of service (QoS) is becoming an attractive feature for high-performance networks and parallel machines because it could allow a more efficient use of resources. Deadline-...
—Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are typically composed of very small, battery-operated devices (sensor nodes) containing simple microprocessors with few computational resources....