k-mutual exclusion is an important problem for resourceintensive peer-to-peer applications ranging from aggregation to file downloads. In order to be practically useful, k-mutual...
Class Based Weighted Fair Queueing (CBWFQ) is a very important router discipline that allows different types of Internet Protocol (IP) traffic like voice, video, and best effort d...
Martin J. Fischer, Denise M. Bevilacqua Masi, John...
This paper investigates scheduling loosely coupled task-bundles in highly heterogeneous distributed systems. Two allocation quality metrics are used in pay-per-service distributed ...
In asynchronous event systems, the production of an event is decoupled from its consumption via an event queue. The loose coupling of such systems allows great flexibility as to ...
In a chip-multiprocessor (CMP) system, the DRAM system is shared among cores. In a shared DRAM system, requests from a thread can not only delay requests from other threads by cau...