Skewed-associative caches have been shown to statisticaly exhibit lower miss ratios than set-associative caches at equal associativity degrees. But for L1 caches, the performance of a four-way set-associative cache is known to be quite close to that of a 16-way set-associative cache. In this paper, we rst show that BTBs and L2 caches featuring long line size may beneet a lot from a high associa...

Condition-based maintenance has been proven effective in reducing unexpected failures with minimum operational costs. This study considers an optimal condition-based replacement policy with optimal inspection interval when the degradation conforms to an inverse Gaussian process with random effects. The random effects parameter is used to account for heterogeneities commonly observed among a pro...

Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs) are autonomously structured multi-hop wireless links in peer to peer fashion without aid of any infrastructure network. In MANETs network topology is dynamic, as nodes are mobile. Due to this dynamic topology and multi-hop environment data availability in MANETs is low. Caching of frequently accessed data in ad hoc networks is a potential technique that can improv...