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TC
1998
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Regular Sparse Crossbar Concentrators
A bipartite concentrator is a single stage sparse crossbar switching device that can connect any m of its n ≥ m inputs to its m outputs possibly without the ability to distingui...
Weiming Guo, A. Yavuz Oruç
TC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
A Prioritized Petri Net Model and Its Application in Distributed Multimedia Systems
—The achievement of media synchronization has been dealt with in the Object Composition Petri Net (OCPN) model and the extended OCPN (XOCPN) model. Yet these two models are not e...
Sheng Uei Guan, Hsiao-Yeh Yu, Jen-Shun Yang
TC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Realizing Common Communication Patterns in Partitioned Optical Passive Stars (POPS) Networks
—We consider the problem of realizing several common communication structures in the all-optical Partitioned Optical Passive Stars (POPS) topology. We show that, often, the obvio...
Greg Gravenstreter, Rami G. Melhem
TC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Multiple-Valued Signed-Digit Adder Using Negative Differential-Resistance Devices
—This paper describes a new signed-digit full adder (SDFA) circuit consisting of resonant-tunneling diodes (RTDs) and metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs)...
Alejandro F. González, Pinaki Mazumder
TC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Measuring and Optimizing CORBA Latency and Scalability Over High-Speed Networks
There is increasing demand to extend object-oriented middleware, such as OMG CORBA, to support applications with stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. However, conventi...
Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Douglas C. Schmidt
TC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Using System-Level Models to Evaluate I/O Subsystem Designs
—We describe a system-level simulation model and show that it enables accurate predictions of both I/O subsystem and overall system performance. In contrast, the conventional app...
Gregory R. Ganger, Yale N. Patt
TC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Analysis of Preventive Maintenance in Transactions Based Software Systems
—Preventive maintenance of operational software systems, a novel technique for software fault tolerance, is used specifically to counteract the phenomenon of software “aging.â€...
Sachin Garg, Antonio Puliafito, Miklós Tele...
TC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
A Metaobject Architecture for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems: The FRIENDS Approach
—The FRIENDS system developed at LAAS-CNRS is a metalevel architecture providing libraries of metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication, and group-based distributed a...
Jean-Charles Fabre, Tanguy Pérennou
TC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
A New Representation of Elements of Finite Fields GF(2m) Yielding Small Complexity Arithmetic Circuits
—Let F2 denote the binary field and F 2 m an algebraic extension of degree m > 1 over F2 . Traditionally, elements of F 2 m are either represented as powers of a primitive ele...
Germain Drolet