High rate stimulations of the neuromuscular system, such as continuous whole body vibration, tonic vibration reflex and high frequency electrical stimulation, are used in the physiological research with an increasing interest. In these studies, the neuronal circuitries underlying the reflex responses remain unclear due to the problem of determining the exact reflex latencies. We present a novel...

Future many-core chips will require an on-chip network that can support broadcasts and multicasts at good power-performance. A vanilla on-chip network would send multiple unicast packets for each broadcast packet, resulting in latency, throughput and power overheads. Recent research in on-chip multicast support has proposed forking of broadcast/multicast packets within the network at the router...

We thank Bifulco [1] for his interest in reading our article and his time in writing his comments on our work [2]. Our response to his concerns are as follows: The diseases studies in the papers that we cited in our Review on the Triangle of Death, and also others we did not include because they did not meet the inclusion criteria (Scopus, etc.), have a long period of latency. Environmental exp...

Non-uniform cache architecture (NUCA) aims to limit the wire-delay problem typical of large on-chip last level caches: by partitioning a large cache into several banks, with the latency of each one depending on its physical location and by employing a scalable on-chip network to interconnect the banks with the cache controller, the average access latency can be reduced with respect to a traditi...

Parallelizing sparse irregular application on distributed memory systems poses serious scalability challenges due to the communication bottlenecks which manifest themselves in an unpredictable manner as high bandwidth and/or latency overhead. The importance of different components of overall communication cost can be disproportionate due to the irregularity and sparseness inherent in the applic...

Compression is widely used to reduce data transmission costs, but its impact on the performance of network entities such as web caches has not yet been studied. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of compression on cache performance when the cache compresses content and the client decompresses it. We further determine the performance bounds by benchmarking the best-case (server compression-cl...

In this paper we describe the Medusa proxy, a tool for exploring user-perceived Web performance. The Medusa proxy is a non-caching forwarding proxy used in conjunction with a user’s browser. The two key features that the Medusa proxy provides are (1) the ability to simultaneously mirror HTTP requests from the browser to different Web delivery systems and directly compare the results, and (2) th...

In this paper, we propose three Deflection-Routing-based Multicast (DRM) schemes for a bufferless NoC. The DRM scheme without packets replication (DRM noPR) sends multicast packet through a nondeterministic path. The DRM schemes with adaptive packets replication (DRM PR src and DRM PR all) replicate multicast packets at the source or intermediate node according to the destination position and t...

As the future generation networks are envisioned to be heterogeneous in nature, seamless mobility in such networks is an important issue. While IETF work groups have standardized various mobility management protocols, such as Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6), Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 (Predictive FMIPv6, and Reactive FMIPv6), Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6), Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) and Fast Handov...

In order for natural selection to operate, physiological and behavioural traits must exhibit both inter-individual variability and intra-individual consistency (i.e. repeatability) in performance. In this study, we describe individual variation and temporal repeatability in the escape responses of the queen scallop, Aequipecten opercularis, and determine whether individuals exhibited consistent...