TCOM
2008
14 years 11 days ago
2008
To improve performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for fading channels, this paper proposes increasing frequency and time diversity using linear dispersion...
TASLP
2008
14 years 11 days ago
2008
The performance of spoken language recognition system is typically formulated to reflect the detection cost and the strategic decision points along the detection-error-tradeoff cur...
SP
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 days ago
2008
IEEE
We have developed an environment, based upon robust, existing, open source software, for tuning applications written using MPI, OpenMP or both. The goal of this effort, which inte...
SOCO
2008
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
2008
Springer
Flexibility can significantly impact performance. Some component-based frameworks come with a near to zero overhead but provide only build-time configurability. Other solutions pro...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
2008
ACM
In this paper, we discuss recent work on buffer sizing in the context of an ISP's need to offer and guarantee competitive Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to its customers. Si...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
2008
ACM
Random Medium-Access-Control (MAC) algorithms have played an increasingly important role in the development of wired and wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) and yet the performanc...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
2008
ACM
Burstiness and temporal dependence in service processes are often found in multi-tier architectures and storage devices and must be captured accurately in capacity planning models...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
2008
ACM
Peer-assisted streaming is a promising way for service providers to offer high-quality IPTV to consumers at reasonable cost. In peerassisted streaming, the peers exchange video ch...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
2008
ACM
Traditional performance models are too brittle to be relied on for continuous capacity planning and performance debugging in many computer systems. Simply put, a brittle model is ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
2008
ACM
Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...