Owner identification is an important aspect of improving network visibility and enhancing network security within local area networks deploying IPv6. This paper presents a simulation study for owner identification in an enterprise local area network from their IPv6 addresses. The study is based around the reverse implementation (many-to-one mapping) of a one-to-many reversible mapping. The pape...

This work attempts to enhance the support of embedded software modeling with SystemC 2.0. We propose a top-down approach that first lets designers specify their application in SystemC at a high abstraction level through a set of connected modules, and then simulate the whole system. Then, the application is partitioned in two parts: software and hardware modules. Each partition can be connected...

Current software engineering topics such as clone detection and service selection need to improve the capability of detection process and selection process. The clone detection is the process of finding duplicated code through the system for several purposes such as removal of repeated portions as maintenance part of legacy system. Service selection is the process of finding the appropriate web...

We present the novel concept of Pipelets: self-organizing stages of software pipelines that monitor their computational demands and communication patterns and interact to optimize the performance of the application they belong to. They enable dynamic task remapping and exploit application-specific properties. Our experiments show that they improve performance by up to 31.2% compared to state-of...

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Current trends in high performance computing have produced two distinct families of chips. The first one is called complex core, which consists of a few, very architecturally sophisticated cores. The other chip family consists of many simple cores, which lack the advanced features of the complex ones. The two ideological camps have their examples in the current market. The Intel Core Duo family...

Complexity’ and ‘crisis’ have become synonyms in the (brief) history of Software Engineering. The terms ‘component’, ‘decomposition’, ‘structure’ and ‘architecture’ have been associated with methods and techniques proposed over the years to defeat the crisis, from structured programming to object/component based programming and, more recently, service-oriented architectures. This chapter discus...

Processor vendors are integrating more and more cores into their chip. These many-core processors usually implement hardware coherence mechanisms, but when the core count goes to hundreds or more, it becomes prohibitively difficult to design and verify efficient hardware coherence support. Despite this, many parallel applications, for example RMS applications [9], show little data sharing, whic...