gn process of embedded systems moves currently towards higher levels of abstraction. As a consequence, a need arises for an early and realistic assessment of system level design d...
CLOCK is a classical cache replacement policy dating back to 1968 that was proposed as a low-complexity approximation to LRU. On every cache hit, the policy LRU needs to move the a...
This paper attempts to address the issue of hardening the internal security of an organisation's network by easing its patch management. Traditionally security has been model...
IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...
This paper introduces the hash-merge join algorithm (HMJ, for short); a new non-blocking join algorithm that deals with data items from remote sources via unpredictable, slow, or ...