... consists of virtual connections between the nodes of a network independent of their physical layout. – These logical signal paths are defined by DataLinklayer protocols.• TheDataLinklayer ... www.bkacad.comConnecting Upper Layer Services to the Media11• To support a wide variety of network functions, theDataLinklayer is often divided into two sublayers: an upper sublayer and an lower sublayer. ... DataLinkLayer Protocols- The Frame31• Remember that although there are many different DataLinklayer protocols that describe Data Linklayer frames, each frame...
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... discourse. Inthe UK, the FTSE (The Financial Times Stock Exchange Index) has introduced in 2001 the FTSE4Good index for ethically high scorers. And this is just the latest inthe line of a burgeoning ... economies. Identifying the ethical push behind entrenching the concept of minimum standards for corporate conduct inthe sphere of international law Muchlinksi discerns a framework in which the moral ... consultancies. Discussion ofthe moral responsibilitiesof business has come out ofthe classroom and into both the financial press and the boardroom. Why? 9 J. Elkington, Cannibals with Forks: TheTtriple...
... these layers and their interaction. In recent years, the importance ofthe cross -layer design at the PHY/MAC /link layer has been reiterated through the emergence of manyinnovative techniques, ... information(e.g., the SNR information at thelinklayer or the queue sizeat the baseband module). The motivation for this special issue is the observationthat a cross -layer approach is particularly important ... cross -layer design hasbeen adopted. In short, the cross -layer methodology allowscertain important information to in uence decisions in a layer that is originally not defined to use that information(e.g.,...
... TRANSACTION PROCESSING, Vijay Atluri, Sushil Jajodia, Binto George ISBN: 0-7923-7702-8FUZZY LOGIC INDATA MODELING, Guoqing Chen ISBN: 0-7923-8253-6INTERCONNECTING HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION ... /Moscow The Kluwer International Series on ADVANCES IN DATABASE SYSTEMS SeriesEditorAhmed K. Elmagarmid PurdueUniversityWest Lafayette, IN 47907 Other books inthe Series: SEMANTIC MODELS ... 0-7923-7883-0 DATA DISSEMINATION IN WIRELESS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS, Kian-Lee Tan and Beng Chin Ooi; ISBN: 0-7923-7866-0MIDDLEWARE NETWORKS: Concept, Design and Deployment of Internet Infrastructure,...
... Analysis ofthe Working Hypothesis 47 4. USE OF MEMORY AT THE I/O INTERFACE 511. Simulation using Time- in -Cache 52 3. Expectations for Memory Interaction 56 5. MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN AN LRU ... function of window size. 95 Requests to persistent cylinder images as a function of window size. 95 Requests to persistent files as a function of window size. 96 Distribution of file interarrival ... distinguish along a single time line. 6 1.2 Distribution of track interarrival times. Each curve shows a user or system storage pool at one of 11 sur-1.3 Distribution of page frame interarrival...
... exploit them to best advantage. The emphasis ofthe book will be on the practical applications of such results. The focus ofthe applications examined in this book is on the portion of a computer ... example of such a phenomenon is not, by itself, sufficiently interesting to justify an entire book. Instead, the “meat” ofthe present book comes from the ability ofthe hierarchical reuse model ... based upon the explicitly hierarchical nature of most software. To reflect the inferred “behind the scenes” role of hierarchically structured soft-ware, we adopt, in Chapter 1, the term hierarchical...
... percent of the tracks. Since the beginning ofthe sorted list represents the best possible cache contents, we may apply the definition of Ω(l) to obtain the following upper bound on the hit ... Reuse Model 3 the LRU list, other than the requested track, remain linked together inthe sameorder as before. This algorithm has the net effect that the tracks inthe list always appear in order ... at the opposite end ofthe list, called the bottom, or Least Recently Used (LRU) position, is the track for which the longest time has passed since the previous reference. Therefore, in the LRUalgorithm,...
... than any ofthe time scales of interest (some fraction of one second). Thus, we will not bother trying to quantify the lower limit but simply note that there is one. Inthe remainder ofthe book, ... track does of being referenced in the next 20 seconds. Similarly, we should expect that the short term track has the same probability of being referenced inthe next 1 minute, as the long-termtrack ... does of being referenced inthe next 4 minutes. By formalizing the above example, we are now ready to state a specific hypothesis. Let the random variable U be the time from the last use of a...
... units of granularity. For example, the minidisk cache facility mentioned earlier manages datain units of one page frame (oneblock of 4096 bytes). The unit ofgranularity used in managing the ... size. Then we may conclude that the population of tracks currently visiting the cache is given by (1.13): THE FRACTAL STRUCTURE OFDATA REFERENCE Therefore,By contrast, measurements ofthe single-reference ... STRUCTURE OFDATA REFERENCE Let us first subdivide the entire visit into two parts: 1. The back end, starting with the last reference during the visit, and ending when the track is removed from the...
... considering the require-ments of individual applications. In view of (1.20), such objectives provide a valuable starting point for configuration planning. Let us, therefore, consider the impact ofthe ... These include both the VM storage pools already introduced, as well as the stor-age pools traced during a survey oftwelve moderate to large OS/390 installations[ 17]. The figures include the ... reflected inthe average or single-referenceresidency time). Our starting point for calculating the requirements for cache memory is Little’s law, as applied previously inthe result (1.14). The...
... early demotion of sequential data residing inthe cache; the memory for such data is typically freed long before thedata would have progressed from the top to the bottom ofthe LRU list. Storage ... much the performance ofthe processor buffers themselves whichcomplicate the picture developed so far, since their performance can be de-scribed by the methods of analysis already discussed. Instead, ... prime indicates the miss ratio inthe combined configuration. A more interesting configuration is one in which τc< τp. In this environ-ment, a “division of labor” becomes possible, in...
... applying (1.26), that the processor miss ratio must be evaluated at the single-reference residency time ofthe storage control cache). Plugging (1.4) into (1.26), we find that, for reads, inthe ... constant. Inthe region < however, the plot should show reduced responsiveness, reflecting the reduced exponent appearing in (1.27). Also, the transition between the two regions ofthe curve ... virtually the entire line of reasoning presented inthe previous subsections extends to the case of reads to a cache, where processor buffers are present. Corresponding to (1 .2 1), we obtain(1.28)whereprovided...
... as an independently executing “daemon” [19], and provides a natural building block forI/O performance testing. In addition, it helps bring to life, inthe form of a concrete example, the hierarchical ... alternative method of characterizing the hierarchical reuse model, which 34 THE FRACTAL STRUCTURE OFDATA REFERENCE Notes1 Assumes a track belonging to the 3380 family of storage devices. ... behavior synthetically. Finally, we illustrate the actual behavior ofthe proposed synthetic requests through simulation. 1. DESIRED BEHAVIOR Assuming that a pattern of requests obeys the hierarchical...
... (2.2). The method of performing the needed random walk can be visualized by thinking ofthe available tracks as being the leaves of a binary tree, of height Hmax. The ancestors of any given ... specifically on the most interesting region of interarrival times (those in the range of 32–512 seconds), all ofthe curves appear to have settled into a close approximation ofthe predicted ... obtained by dropping the last two binary digits ofthe number l; and all tracks have the same great-grandparent.Starting from a given leaf li of the tree, the next leaf li+1is determined...