We describe the application of a performance engineering methodology based on UML diagrams with annotations taken from the Profile for Schedulability, Performance and Time. The me...
It is known that the resources that limit the overall performance of the system are the congested ones, referred to as bottlenecks. From the knowledge of the bottleneck stations w...
The IEEE 802.11e technology is receiving much interest due to the promising enhancements it will offer to wireless local area networks in terms of QoS support. Until now, research...
Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate, Pietro Manzoni, Ma...
File prefetching based on previous file access patterns has been shown to be an effective means of reducing file system latency by implicitly loading caches with files that are li...
Peer-to-peer file sharing networks have emerged as a new popular application in the Internet scenario. In this paper, we provide an analytical model of the resources size and of t...
Mauro Andreolini, Riccardo Lancellotti, Philip S. ...
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...
One of the primary challenges facing scalable network emulation and simulation is the overhead of storing network-wide routing tables or computing appropriate routes on a per-pack...
Jay Chen, Diwaker Gupta, Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanat...