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MASCOTS
2003
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DEVS Today: Recent Advances in Discrete Event-Based Information Technology
We review the DEVS modeling and simulation framework Its fundamental concepts are discussed from the standpoint of discrete event information processing with an example drawn from...
Bernard P. Zeigler
MASCOTS
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Considering the Energy Consumption of Mobile Storage Alternatives
This paper is motivated by a simple question: what are the energy consumption characteristics of mobile storage alternatives? To answer this question, we are faced with a design s...
Fengzhou Zheng, Nitin Garg, Sumeet Sobti, Chi Zhan...
MASCOTS
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Toward Scaling Network Emulation using Topology Partitioning
Scalability is the primary challenge to studying large complex network systems with network emulation. This paper studies topology partitioning, assigning disjoint pieces of the n...
Ken Yocum, Ethan Eade, Julius Degesys, David Becke...
MASCOTS
2003
14 years 1 months ago
SPEK: A Storage Performance Evaluation Kernel Module for Block Level Storage Systems
— This paper introduces a new benchmark tool, SPEK (Storage Performance Evaluation Kernel module), for evaluating the performance of block-level storage systems in the presence o...
Ming Zhang, Qing Yang, Xubin He
MASCOTS
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Disk Built-in Caches: Evaluation on System Performance
Disk drive manufacturers are putting increasingly larger built-in caches into disk drives. Today, 2 MB buffers are common on low-end retail IDE/ATA drives, and some SCSI drives ar...
Yingwu Zhu, Yiming Hu
MASCOTS
2003
14 years 1 months ago
An integrated performance model of disk arrays
All enterprise storage systems depend on disk arrays to satisfy their capacity, reliability, and availability requirements. Performance models of disk arrays are useful in underst...
Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiao...
MASCOTS
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Performance Benchmarking of Dynamic Web Technologies
When the World-Wide Web was first created, the content on most Web sites was simply a collection of static files. Today, many Web sites dynamically generate responses “on the ...
Lance Titchkosky, Martin F. Arlitt, Carey L. Willi...
MASCOTS
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Computer Virus Propagation Models
Abstract. The availability of reliable models of computer virus propagation would prove useful in a number of ways, in order both to predict future threats, and to develop new cont...
Giuseppe Serazzi, Stefano Zanero
MASCOTS
2003
14 years 1 months ago
System-Level Simulation Modeling with MLDesigner
System-level design presents special simulation modeling challenges. System-level models address the architectural and functional performance of complex systems. Systems are decom...
Gunar Schorcht, Ian A. Troxel, Keyvan Farhangian, ...