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University of Wollongong

Performance

2006

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Improving Object Cache Performance Through Selective Placement, Saied Hosseini-Khayat Jan 2006

Improving Object Cache Performance Through Selective Placement, Saied Hosseini-Khayat

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

Distributed systems greatly benefit from caching. Caching data objects of variable size and cost poses interesting questions that have been researched for the past ten years. As a result, a few good algorithms have come to the fore. These algorithms make effective decisions in selecting cache objects for removal. However, they make no decision about the suitability of a new object for placement into the cache. We show that “selective placement” can add further improvement to these algorithms when a request pattern consists of frequent references to a working set of objects interspersed with isolated references to less popular objects. …


The Influence Of Site Physical Characteristics On Power Quality Performance, Glenn Nicholson, Victor J. Gosbell, Ashok Parsotam Jan 2006

The Influence Of Site Physical Characteristics On Power Quality Performance, Glenn Nicholson, Victor J. Gosbell, Ashok Parsotam

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

Routine power quality (PQ) monitoring is limited to a statistical sample of sites that are hopefully representative of the overall PQ performance of the network. It would be helpful if the PQ performance of un-monitored sites could be inferred from the results of a PQ survey from a site having similar physical characteristics. This is only possible if it is known which physical characteristics are most influential in determining PQ performance. This paper describes the application of factor analysis techniques to determine the relationship between known site physical characteristics and PQ disturbance levels on the Vector Distribution Network (Auckland, New …


Performance Evaluation Of Vertical Handoff Decision Algorithms In Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, Min Liu, Zhong-Cheng Li, Xiao-Bing Guo, Eryk Dutkiewicz, De-Kui Zhang Jan 2006

Performance Evaluation Of Vertical Handoff Decision Algorithms In Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, Min Liu, Zhong-Cheng Li, Xiao-Bing Guo, Eryk Dutkiewicz, De-Kui Zhang

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

In recent years, many research works have focused on vertical handoff (VHO) decision algorithms. However, evaluation scenarios in different papers are often quite different and there is no consensus on how to evaluate performance of VHO algorithms. In this paper, we address this important issue by proposing an approach for systematic and thorough performance evaluation of VHO algorithms. Firstly we define the evaluation criteria for VHO with two metrics: matching ratio and average ping-pong number. Subsequently we analyze the general movement characteristics of mobile hosts and identify a set of novel performance evaluation models for VHO algorithms. Equipped with these …