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MASCOTS
2004
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Experimental Evaluation of TCP Performance in Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
This paper presents experimental measurements of TCP bulk data transfer performance in a multi-hop wireless ad hoc network environment. The first part of the paper studies how TCP...
Abhinav Gupta, Ian Wormsbecker, Carey L. Williamso...
MASCOTS
2004
14 years 1 months ago
An Optimisation Model for a Two-Node Router Network
Architectural designs for routers and networks of routers to support mobile communication are analysed for their end-to-end performance using a simple Markov model. In view of the...
Nalan Gülpinar, Peter G. Harrison, Berç...
MASCOTS
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Simulation Evaluation of Hybrid SRPT Scheduling Policies
This paper uses trace-driven simulations to evaluate two novel Web server scheduling policies called KSRPT and T-SRPT. K-SRPT is a multi-threaded version of SRPT (Shortest Remaini...
Mingwei Gong, Carey L. Williamson
MASCOTS
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Engineering Mobile Wireless Publish/Subscribe Systems for High Performance
Decoupling flexible, scalable and asynchronous nature of publish/subscribe systems makes them a good choice for the mobile wireless domain. Our research investigates the applicati...
Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons
MASCOTS
2004
14 years 1 months ago
MRAMFS: A Compressing File System for Non-Volatile RAM
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...
MASCOTS
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Modeling the Burstiness of TCP
In this paper we investigate the burstiness of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and its impact on a network of finite TCP connections. A detailed TCP and network model is d...
Peter Dimopoulos, Panlop Zeephongsekul, Zahir Tari
MASCOTS
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Large-Scale Simulation Models of BGP
The complex nature of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is not amenable to analytical modeling, and thus simulation
Xenofontas A. Dimitropoulos, George F. Riley
MASCOTS
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Causal Multicast in Mobile Networks
Distributed applications using file sharing and file replication, conferencing, and delivery in multimedia systems often need to use the semantics of causal multicast. Causal mult...
Punit Chandra, Ajay D. Kshemkalyani
MASCOTS
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Performance Engineering with the UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance and Time: A Case Study
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...
Andrew J. Bennett, A. J. Field
MASCOTS
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Bottlenecks Identification in Multiclass Queueing Networks Using Convex Polytopes
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...
Giuliano Casale, Giuseppe Serazzi