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MASCOTS
2008
14 years 29 days ago
Finding Good Configurations in High-Dimensional Spaces: Doing More with Less
Manually tuning tens to hundreds of configuration parameters in a complex software system like a database or an application server is an arduous task. Recent work has looked into ...
Risi Thonangi, Vamsidhar Thummala, Shivnath Babu
MASCOTS
2008
14 years 29 days ago
TCP over WiMAX: A Measurement Study
We present active measurement results from a commercial IEEE 802.16/WiMAX-based network, with primary focus on TCP performance. We compare four TCP variants, namely New Reno, Cubi...
Emir Halepovic, Qian Wu, Carey L. Williamson, Maji...
MASCOTS
2008
14 years 29 days ago
Modeling Software Contention using Colored Petri Nets
Commercial servers, such as database or application servers, often attempt to improve performance via multithreading. Improper multi-threading architectures can incur contention, ...
Nilabja Roy, Akshay Dabholkar, Nathan Hamm, Lawren...
MASCOTS
2008
14 years 29 days ago
Increased Reliability with SSPiRAL Data Layouts
We evaluate the reliability of storage system schemes consisting of an equal numbers of data disks and parity disks where each parity disk contains the exclusive or (XOR) of two o...
Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Jehan-François P&acir...
MASCOTS
2008
14 years 29 days ago
On the Stability of Best Effort Flow Control Mechanisms in On-Chip Architectures
In this paper we present a centralized flow control scheme in NoCs in the presence of both elastic and streaming flow traffic paradigms. We model the desired Best Effort (BE) sour...
Mohammad Sadegh Talebi, Ahmad Khonsari
MASCOTS
2008
14 years 29 days ago
Power Optimization in Fault-Tolerant MANETs
Abstract--In this paper, we investigate the problem of optimizing the lifetime of a mobile ad hoc network at a given degree k of connectivity by minimizing power consumption. Our p...
Oliviero Riganelli, Radu Grosu, Scott A. Smolka
MASCOTS
2008
14 years 29 days ago
Optimizing Galois Field Arithmetic for Diverse Processor Architectures and Applications
Galois field implementations are central to the design of many reliable and secure systems, with many systems implementing them in software. The two most common Galois field opera...
Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas J. E. Sc...
MASCOTS
2008
14 years 29 days ago
Allocation and Admission Policies for Service Streams
A service provisioning system is examined, where a number of servers are used to offer different types of services to paying customers. A customer is charged for the execution of ...
Michele Mazzucco, Isi Mitrani, Mike Fisher, Paul M...
MASCOTS
2008
14 years 29 days ago
Profiling, Prediction, and Capping of Power Consumption in Consolidated Environments
Consolidation of workloads has emerged as a key mechanism to dampen the rapidly growing energy expenditure within enterprise-scale data centers. To gainfully utilize consolidation...
Jeonghwan Choi, Sriram Govindan, Bhuvan Urgaonkar,...
MASCOTS
2008
14 years 29 days ago
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Information Extraction in Real-World Storage Management
As storage deployments within enterprises continue to grow, there is an increasing need to simplify and automate. Existing tools for automation rely on extracting information in t...
Aameek Singh, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Yin Wang