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Hardware (B)
Modeling and evaluating heterogeneous memory architectures by trace-driven simulation
: CF 2008
Much effort is devoted to improving the memory performance of processors, which have an obvious performance bottleneck in their memory systems.
All modern memory systems are hierarchical...
Primary Memory (B.3.2...) | Sep 11 08
Reuse and optimization of testbenches and properties in a TLM-to-RTL design flow
: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
Transaction-based verification is a recent trend in hardware verification. The system is considered at higher levels of abstraction that model the data transfers and input/output (I/O)...
Hardware Description Lang. (B.5.2...) | Sep 18 08
Optimal power-down strategies
: SIAM Journal on Computing
Electronic devices usually offer many functions; most of them, though critical for the correct operation of the device, are hidden from the user. Each function has its own power requirements; all functions...
Switching Theory (B.6.3...) | Oct 9 08
Computer Systems Organization (C)
Improving performance and reducing energy-delay with adaptive resource resizing for out-of-order embedded processors
: ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Homayoun et al. contend that increasing the size of processor resources is not an effective way to improve performance, due to constraints on achievable clock...
Single Data Stream Architectures (C.1.1) | Sep 15 08
PIANO: a power saving strategy for cellular/VoWLAN dual-mode
: Wireless Networks
Tsao and Cheng present a novel power-saving strategy, paging via another radio (PIANO), to be used in the creation, provision, and implementation of dual-mode mobile...
Network Architecture & Design (C.2.1) | Oct 10 08
RaWMS - random walk based lightweight membership service for wireless ad hoc networks
: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
A random walk is a trajectory made up of a series of random steps. This paper reports on using the results of the topological study of random walks (RWs) on random geometric graphs to model the...
Wireless Communication (C.2.1...) | Sep 30 08
Mitigating application-level denial of service attacks on Web servers: a client-transparent approach
: ACM Transactions on the Web
When the response from Google or Yahoo! is slow, you may think, “What a busy day it is!” But the actual truth may be that these Web sites are being attacked using the denial of service DoS) tactic. A DoS...
Distributed Systems (C.2.4) | Sep 19 08
Distributed algorithm for efficient construction and maintenance of connected k-hop dominating sets in mobile ad hoc networks
: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Imagine mobile networks (specifically, where network nodes are allowed to move more or less freely in space) where nodes not only communicate through a wireless channel, but do so without any fixed...
Internetworking (C.2.6) | Oct 10 08
Control theory-based DVS for interactive 3D games
: DAC 08
The workload prediction, and consequent power-consumption prediction, implemented in traditional video-decoding applications is based on estimates of queue lengths of video...
Special-Purpose/App-Based Sys. (C.3) | Sep 29 08
Timing analysis of the FlexRay communication protocol
: Real-Time Systems
Pop et al. provide an analysis of the timing behavior of the FlexRay communication protocol. FlexRay is a relatively new communication protocol for the automotive sector. The...
Special-Purpose & App.-Based Sys. (C.3) | Sep 16 08
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Computer Systems Organization (C)
VizSEC 2007: proceedings of the workshop on visualization for computer security
The result of a very successful workshop, this book is a collection of several very useful contributions.
The introductory paper by the editors is quite useful as an overview of the field, and could very well be recommended reading for a course...
Security and Protection (C.2.0...) | Oct 8 08
Router security strategies: securing IP network traffic planes
Computers all over the world are networked to form the World Wide Web. This networking is made possible by routers. A router is a device whose main functions are routing (choosing paths in a network...
Security and Protection (C.2.0...) | Oct 2 08
VMware ESX Server in the enterprise: planning and securing virtualization servers
With excruciatingly exhaustive detail, this highly prescriptive work describes administering a virtualization farm with VMware ESX Server. It is recommended reading for administrators, but not for curious users or administrator managers. It...
Distributed Systems (C.2.4) | Sep 29 08
Deploying Cisco wide area application services
In order to keep up with the secure deployment of wide-area applications in network environments, Cisco came up with its Cisco wide area application services (WAAS) solution. This book presents an in-depth discussion of Cisco WAAS, including a...
Local and Wide-Area Networks (C.2.5) | Sep 24 08
The future of the Internet--and how to stop it
Wandering the timeline of the Internet’s life, Zittrain projects its future generations using sociological, genealogical, and technological arguments. The way the book is structured and enriched makes it an ideal...
Miscellaneous (C.2.m) | Oct 6 08
Digital signal processing and applications with the TMS320C6713 and TMS320C6416 DSK
Digital signal processing (DSP) is concerned with the representation of signals by a succession of numbers or symbols, including the processing of these signals. DSP is best taught by choosing a specific...
Signal Processing Systems (C.3...) | Oct 1 08
Software (D)
Concurrent and real-time programming in ADA (3rd ed.)
Ada is one of the few imperative programming languages with concurrency built into the design of the language itself. With the increase of multi-core processors in commodity hardware, this new and revised edition of a comprehensive...
Concurrent Programming (D.1.3) | Sep 30 08
Rich client programming: plugging into the NetBeans platform
With their long involvement with the NetBeans project, Boudreau, Tulach, and Wielenga are quite well established and experienced in the field of software development. In this book, they present the evolution of the NetBeans project over the...
Object-Oriented Programming (D.1.5) | Oct 7 08
Ajax security
Ajax technology is increasingly being used to build Web sites. As the title suggests, this book treats various security aspects related to Ajax technology. It describes various types of attacks possible...
Protection Mechanisms (D.2.0...) | Sep 18 08
25 years of model checking: history, achievements, perspectives
In academia, a festschrift is a book that tends to be either overly pedantic or superficially celebratory, given the fact that it honors a respected colleague. Nonetheless, this festschrift has implications...
Model Checking (D.2.4...) | Sep 26 08
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