— IEEE 802.11 DCF exhibits poor scalability due to the large contention overhead. Therefore, the more the number of stations, the less the aggregate throughput. We propose a two-...
Atomic blocks allow programmers to delimit sections of code as ‘atomic’, leaving the language’s implementation to enforce atomicity. Existing work has shown how to implement...
Timothy L. Harris, Mark Plesko, Avraham Shinnar, D...
In this paper, we present Chameleon—an application-level power management approach for reducing energy consumption in mobile processors. Our approach exports the entire responsi...
Early applications of smart cards have focused in the area of personal security. Recently, there has been an increasing demand for networked, multi-application cards. In this new ...
Ana Azevedo, Arun Kejariwal, Alexander V. Veidenba...
Dynamic optimization systems store optimized or translated code in a software-managed code cache in order to maximize reuse of transformed code. Code caches store superblocks that...