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Computer Systems Organization (C)
On utilization efficiency of backbone bandwidth for a heterogeneous wireless network operator
: Wireless Networks
Network operators have to accommodate multiple access technologies and manage resources in a cost-effective way so that the access to Internet services meets quality of service (QoS)...
Wireless Communication (C.2.1...) | Jan 31 12
Optimisation of multimedia over wireless IP links via X-layer design: an end-to-end transmission chain simulator
: Multimedia Tools and Applications
The ICT FP7 OPTIMIX project was a research project among nine European industrials and academic research centers in at least six countries. It...
TCP/IP (C.2.2...) | Jan 26 12
Autonomic management of application workflows on hybrid computing infrastructure
: Scientific Programming
This paper, on the autonomic management of application workflows on a hybrid computing infrastructure, is designed to address the...
Cloud Computing (C.2.4...) | Jan 10 12
Conditional fault tolerance of arrangement graphs
: Information Processing Letters
Ensuring high network reliability is of utmost importance, especially as the number of networked computers increases. Connectivity is an important factor in measuring how reliable a network is...
Fault Tolerance (C.4...) | Jan 3 12
Software (D)
Numerical Python for scalable architectures
: PGAS 10
Developing numeric computations using a dynamic language such as Python should lead rapidly to production-quality code. Contrast this with prototyping in a specialized environment such as MATLAB...
General (D.1.0) | Jan 9 12
Necessary and neglected? An empirical study of internal documentation in agile software development teams
: SIGDOC 11
Agile programming is not known for favoring internal software documentation. Since internal documentation does not directly contribute to making clients happy, agile programmers exhibit little enthusiasm...
Methodologies (D.2.1...) | Feb 3 12
Deriving business processes with service level agreements from early requirements
: J. of Systems & Software
One of the difficult information systems problems in organizations is the development of service-based applications, starting with rather informal requirements and...
Requirements/Specifications (D.2.1) | Jan 3 12
EAGLE: engineering software in the ubiquitous globe by leveraging uncertainty
: ESEC/FSE 11
Autili et al. describe the EAGLE approach for software integration where the integrator does not know the boundary conditions for a system composed of working components. They claim that the...
Methodologies (D.2.10...) | Jan 5 12
Lightweight and continuous architectural software quality assurance using the aSQA technique
: ECSA 10
Evaluating software architecture on the short timescales typical of agile iterations is a problem. A seven-step solution called architectural...
Metrics (D.2.8) | Jan 12 12
Protecting users of the cyber commons
: Communications of the ACM
This article continues the discussion, at least among technicians and politicians in the modern world, of bottom-up procedures and policies versus...
Security & Protection (D.4.6) | Jan 3 12
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Computer Systems Organization (C)
CERT Resilience Management Model: a maturity model for managing operational resilience
CERT has a long-standing tradition in the study of Internet vulnerabilities that dates back to 1988 when, following the resounding release of the Morris...
Security & Protection (C.2.0...) | Dec 22 11
Peer-to-peer computing: applications, architecture, protocols, and challenges
Kwok presents a thin, though comprehensive, monograph on the current state of peer-to-peer (P2P) research. Certain omissions are glaring, but by and large the treatment of the topic is extensive. A...
P2P Computing (C.2.1...) | Jan 31 12
Practical packet analysis: using Wireshark to solve real-world network problems
This edition of the book, a significant extension of the first one [1], comprises two intertwined parts. The first covers fundamentals of computer networking and network protocols. It consists of two introductory chapters on network basics and connectivity...
Network Operations (C.2.3) | Dec 27 11
Scalable network monitoring in high speed networks
In great detail, the authors discuss the notions of flow and of elephants versus mice in the context of network traffic. According to these terms, originating in about 2001, a flow is a stream of packets from one...
Network Monitoring (C.2.3...) | Dec 22 11
Opening standards: the global politics of interoperability
If you have an old document dated back to the days of DOS, you probably would have difficulties opening and reading it. However, if we knew that the old document was in some kind of open standard format...
Standards (C.2.6...) | Jan 16 12
Mobile WiMAX: a systems approach to understanding IEEE 802.16m radio access technology
An up-to-date technical reference for the design of 4th generation (4G) cellular systems, this book describes the protocols and functional elements of 802.16m and LTE...
Standards (C.2.6...) | Jan 5 12
Real-time systems: design principles for distributed embedded applications (2nd ed.)
Both the theory and practice of real-time systems have significantly evolved to the extent that 15 years in the development of a discipline looks like an era. This situation is reflected in this revised...
Real-Time & Embedded Systems (C.3...) | Jan 18 12
Real-time embedded systems: optimization, synthesis, and networking
This welcome new addition to the study of real-time embedded systems should satisfy both generalists and researchers looking for current theories, algorithms, and a comprehensive analysis. The authors provide...
Real-Time & Embedded Systems (C.3...) | Dec 21 11
Analyzing computer system performance with Perl::PDQ (2nd ed.)
Besides its case studies on applying queuing theory to the analysis of computer performance, this book on queuing circuits also includes a quick user guide to Perl Pretty Damn Quick (PDQ), a reference manual, and numerous examples. (PDQ is a front-end...
Performance of Systems (C.4) | Dec 23 11
Software (D)
An introduction to parallel programming
This book is a first course on parallel programming using three parallel programming facilities: message passing interface (MPI), POSIX threads (Pthreads), and OpenMP. It is written for readers who...
Parallel Programming (D.1.3...) | Dec 21 11
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