Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide leased-line like connectivity to private networks using a public infrastructure like the Internet. A number of commercial VPN products can now be purchased, but the freely available OpenSource Linux based VPN solutions (OSLVs) seem to be gaining immense popularity. This is mainly due to their open-source licensing, which gives complete access to the sourc...

Talk Abstract Many future multiprocessor servers will execute large commercial workloads, such as database management systems and web servers. Thus, simulations of new multiprocessor designs should run these workloads. However, simulating expensive servers running these large workloads on low-cost personal computers presents many challenges. Most of this talk discusses the Wisconsin Multifacet ...

Load forecasting plays a critical role in Smart Grid. As there have been various types of customers with different behaviours in a Smart Grid, it would benefit load forecasting if customer behaviours were taken into consideration. This paper proposes a novel load forecasting method that efficiently explores customers’ power consumption behaviours through learning. Our method uses L1-CCRF to ini...