Operating Systems provide services that are accessed by processes via mechanisms that involve a ring transition to transfer control to the kernel where the required function is pe...
Architectural level analysis of a software system for its quality attributes is a proven cost-effective approach. This is particularly significant for performance, which defines m...
— This paper analyzes the performance of a system architecture for the Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA), in a scenario where 3G users generate traffic and invo...
A recent trend in modern high performance computing (HPC) system architectures employs “lean” compute nodes running a lightweight operating system (OS). Certain parts of the OS...
The performance of the protocol stack implementation of an operating system can greatly impact the performance of networked applications that run on it. In this paper, we present a...