Upgrading the software of long-lived distributed systems is difficult. It is not possible to upgrade all the nodes in a system at once, since some nodes may be down and halting t...
With increasing speed and power density, high-performance memories, including FB-DIMM (Fully Buffered DIMM) and DDR2 DRAM, now begin to require dynamic thermal management (DTM) a...
Jiang Lin, Hongzhong Zheng, Zhichun Zhu, Howard Da...
As the VLSI technology scaling down, the electromigration problem becomes one of the major concerns in high-performance IC design for both power network and signal interconnects. ...
Muzhou Shao, D. F. Wong, Youxin Gao, Li-Pen Yuan, ...
Abstract—This paper calls for rethinking packet-switch architectures by cutting all dependencies between the switch fabric and the linecards. Most single-stage packet-switch arch...
— With the advent of MPLS, the restoration times of communications is decreased down to 50 ms by the use of preconfigured backup LSPs. To ensure there are enough resources after ...
Mohand Yazid Saidi, Bernard Cousin, Jean-Louis Le ...