DISCUS - Papers

Papers

2006

Dylan Griffiths and Dwight Makaroff, "Hybrid vs. Monolithic OS Kernels: A Benchmark Comparison", CASCON 2006 , Toronto, ON, pp. 349-352, October 2006 ) pdf

2005

Fujian Liu, Dwight Makaroff, and Said Elnaffar, "Classifying E-commerce Wokloads under Dynamic Caching", IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2005, Waikaloa, HI, pp. 2819-2826, October 2005 pdf.
A. Mahanti, D.L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Improving Multirate Congestion Control Using a TCP Vegas Throughput Model", Computer Networks, Vol. 48, No. 2, June 2005, pp. 113-136. (pdf)
D. Makaroff and N. Hutchinson, Development and evolution of a heterogeneous continuous media server: a case study. Journal of Software Evolution and Maintenance, Volume 17, No. 2, pp 143-167, April 2005. (pdf)

2004

A. Mahanti and D.L. Eager, "Adaptive Data Parallel Computing on Workstation Clusters", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 64, No. 11, November 2004, pp. 1241-1255.
Fujian Liu, Yanping Zhao, Wenguang Wang, and Dwight Makaroff, "Database Server Workload Characterization in an E-Commerce Environment", MASCOTS 2004, Volendam, The Netherlands, pp. 475-483, October 2004. ( pdf).
J. M. Almeida, D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and S. Wright, "Minimizing Delivery Cost in Scalable Streaming Content Distribution Systems", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 6, No. 2, Special Issue on Streaming Media, pp. 356-365, April 2004.
D. Schwab and R.B. Bunt, "Characterising the Use of a Campus Wireless Network", Proc. Infocom 2004, Hong Kong, China, pp. 862-870, March 7-12, 2004. ( pdf)
Qing Wang, D.J. Makaroff and Keith Edwards, "Characterizing Customer Groups for an E-commerce Website", Proc., ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACMEC 2004), New York, NY, pp. 218-227, May 2004 ( pdf)
W. Wang, Y. Zhao and R.B. Bunt, "HyLog: A High Performance Approach to Managing Disk Layout", Proc. Third USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2004), San Francisco, CA, pp. 144-158, Mar-Apr, 2004. ( pdf).
Y. Zhao, D.L. Eager, and M.K. Vernon, "Scalable On-Demand Streaming of Non-Linear Media", IEEE INFOCOM 2004. Hong Kong, China, pp. 1522-2534, Mar 2004. ( pdf ).

2003

Fujian Liu and D.J. Makaroff, "A Comparison of Continuous Media Stream Proxy Caching Policies", 7th IASTED International Conference on INTERNET AND MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS - IMSA 2003, Honolulu, HI, pp. 164-169, August 2003 ( pdf)
A. Mahanti, D.L. Eager, M.K. Vernon, and D. Sundaram-Stukel, "Scalable On-Demand Media Streaming with Packet Loss Recovery", IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 11, No. 2, Apr. 2003, pp. 195-209.
Jiangmei Mei, R. B. Bunt, "Adaptive File Cache Management for Mobile Computing", Proc. Mobile Data Management - MDM 2003, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 369-373, January 2003 ( pdf)
Qing Wang, D.J. Makaroff, Keith Edwards and Ryan Thompson, "Workload Characterization for an E-commerce Web Site", Proc., CASCON 2003, Toronto, Ontario, pp. 313-327, October 2003 ( pdf)
D.J. Sorin, J.L. Lemon, D.L. Eager, and M.K. Vernon, "Analytic Evaluation of Shared Memory Architectures", IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 14, No. 2, Feb. 2003, pp. 166-180. (pdf)

2002

H. Tan, D.L. Eager, and M.K. Vernon, "Delimiting the Range of Effectiveness of Scalable On-Demand Streaming", Proc. 2002 IFIP WG 7.3 Int'l. Symp. on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation (Performance 2002), Rome, Italy, Sept. 2002, pp. 387-410. (pdf)
J. M. Almeida, D. L. Eager, M. Ferris, and M. K. Vernon, "Provisioning Content Distribution Networks for Streaming Media", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2002, New York, NY, June 2002. ( pdf)
X. Cao, R. Bunt, "An Architecture to Support Adaptive Mobile Applications". Wireless 2002, Calgary, AB, Canada, July 2002, ( pdf)
Wenguang Wang and Rick Bunt, "A Self-tuning Page Cleaner for DB2" , Proc. MASCOTS 2002 Conference Fort Worth, TX, October 2002. ( pdf)
Adeniyi Oke, Rick Bunt, "Hierarchical Workload Characterization for a Busy Web Server", Proc. Tools 2002, 12th International Conference on Modelling Tools and Techniques for Computer and Communication System Performance Evaluation, London, UK, April 2002 ( pdf)
Y. Zhao, D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Network Bandwidth Requirements for Scalable On-Demand Streaming", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2002, New York, NY, June 2002. ( pdf)
H. Tan, D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and H. Guo, "Quality of Service Evaluations of Multicast Streaming Protocols", Proc. 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Marina Del Rey, CA, June 2002. ( pdf)
Y. Zhao, D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Efficient Delivery Techniques for Variable Bit Rate Multimedia", Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002 (MMCN 2002), San Jose, CA, Jan. 2002, pp. 142-155. ( pdf)

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