IEEE Transactions on Computers

Using cache-like architectural components including data caches, instruction caches, or branch target buffers as a side channel, software cache-based side-channel attacks are able to derive secret keys used in cryptographic operations through legitimate ...

Power modeling based on performance monitoring counters (PMCs) attracted the interest of researchers since it became a quick approach to understand the power behavior of real systems. Consequently, several power-aware policies use models to guide their ...

A fundamental goal of data center networking is to efficiently interconnect a large number of servers with the low equipment cost. Several server-centric network structures for data centers have been proposed. They, however, are not truly expandable and ...

Error control codes (ECCs) have been widely used to maintain the reliability of memories, but ordinary ECC codes are not suitable for memories with long codewords. For portable products, power reduction in memories with DRAM-like cells can be done by ...

As an important cornerstone for clouds, virtualization plays a vital role in building this emerging infrastructure. Virtual machines (VMs) with a variety of workloads may run simultaneously on a physical machine in the cloud platform. The scheduling ...

In this paper, we consider three-way split formulas for binary polynomial multiplication and Toeplitz matrix vector product (TMVP). We first recall the best known three-way split formulas for polynomial multiplication: the formulas with six recursive ...

A complete family of Cayley graphs of degree four, denoted as L-networks, is considered in this paper. L-networks are 2D mesh-based topologies with wrap-around connections. L-networks constitute a graph-based model which englobe many previously proposed ...

We present a nonintrusive concurrent error detection (CED) method for protecting the control logic of a contemporary floating-point unit (FPU). The proposed method is based on the observation that control logic errors lead to extensive data path ...

High-throughput and low-latency sorting is a key requirement in many applications that deal with large amounts of data. This paper presents efficient techniques for designing high-throughput, low-latency sorting units. Our sorting architectures utilize ...

Channel assignment is a crucial problem for wireless networks, especially for noncooperative wireless networks, in which nodes are selfish. While there have been a few studies of noncooperative, multiradio channel assignment, most existing studies are ...

Flash memory-based disks (or simply flash disks) have been widely used in today's computer systems. With their continuously increasing capacity and dropping price, it is envisioned that some database systems will operate on flash disks in the near ...

In this paper, we explore a new form of dissemination that arises in distributed, mission-critical applications called Flash Dissemination. This involves the rapid dissemination of rich information to a large number of recipients in a very short period ...

This paper pursues RFID support for localization, aiming to pinpoint an object in 3D space. Given a set of RFID tags and/or readers deployed as reference points at known locations in a hexahedron (like shipping container or storage room), a passive and ...

This paper presents a multiplier that operates on binary integer decimal (BID) encoded decimal floating-point (DFP) numbers. It uses a single binary multiplier with carry-save feedback for both significand multiplication and rounding, and it is ...

Computing the product of a Toeplitz matrix and a vector arises in various applications including cryptography. In this paper, we consider Toeplitz matrices and vectors with entries in $({\hbox{\rlap{I}\kern 2.0pt{\hbox{F}}}}_2)$. For improved efficiency ...

Using the comparison diagnosis model, this study proposes some useful sufficient conditions for determining the strong diagnosability $(t_{s}(G))$ and the conditional diagnosability $(t_{c}(G))$ of a system $(G)$. Applying these results to an $(n)$--...