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DEBS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Stochastic performance analysis and capacity planning of publish/subscribe systems
Publish/subscribe systems are used increasingly often as a communication mechanism in loosely-coupled distributed applications. With their gradual adoption in mission critical are...
Arnd Schröter, Gero Mühl, Samuel Kounev,...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Grid-enabled Branch and Bound Algorithm for Solving Challenging Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Solving optimally large instances of combinatorial optimization problems requires a huge amount of computational resources. In this paper, we propose an adaptation of the parallel...
Mohand-Said Mezmaz, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali Ta...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Revisiting communication performance models for computational clusters
—In this paper, we analyze restrictions of traditional models affecting the accuracy of analytical prediction of the execution time of collective communication operations. In par...
Alexey L. Lastovetsky, Vladimir Rychkov, Maureen O...
ICPP
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Performance Limits of Fair-Access in Underwater Sensor Networks
—This paper investigates fundamental performance limits of medium access control (MAC) protocols for particular underwater multi-hop sensor networks under a fair-access criterion...
Yang Xiao, Miao Peng, John H. Gibson, Geoffrey G. ...
ANSS
1991
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Supercritical speedup
The notions of the critical path of events and critical time of an event are key concepts in analyzing the performance of a parallel discrete event simulation. The highest critica...
David R. Jefferson, Peter L. Reiher