In the ever increasing world of distributed systems, different middleware implementations can be compared qualitatively or quantitatively. Existing evaluation techniques are often...
The prominent role of the memory hierarchy as one of the major bottlenecks in achieving good program performance has motivated the search for ways of capturing the memory performa...
Ricardo Portillo, Diana Villa, Patricia J. Teller,...
Fault-tolerant mechanisms have been increasingly used to develop safety-critical systems in the past years. Therefore the accurate description of these mechanisms is crucial if we...
Cristiano Bertolini, Leonardo Brenner, Paulo Ferna...
File systems using non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) promise great improvements in file system performance over conventional disk storage. However, current technology allows for a relative...
Nathan K. Edel, Deepa Tuteja, Ethan L. Miller, Sco...
This paper presents an accurate stochastic model for transfer latency of short-lived Web-like TCP flows with random packet losses. Our model characterizes a data transfer in alter...