high accuracy by calculating power estimates for designs only after layout or floorplanning are complete In addition to being available only late in the design process, such tools are often quite slow, which compounds the difficulty of running them for a large space of design possibilities.

Using on-chip interconnection networks in place of ad-hoc global wiring structures the top level wires on a chip and facilitates modular design. With this approach, system modules (processors, memories, peripherals, etc...) communicate by sending packets to one another over the network

The highly successful architecture and protocols of today’s Internet may operate poorly in environments characterized by very long delay paths and frequent network partitions. These problems are exacerbated by end nodes with limited power or memory resources. Often deployed in mobile and extreme

Abstract: As the feature size of integrated circuits is reduced to the deep sub-micron level or the nanometer level, the interconnect delay is becoming more and more important in determining the total delay of a circuit. Re-synthesis after floorplan is expected to be very helpful for reducing

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, of the properties of TCP/IP in a regime where (1) the bandwidth-delay product of the network is high compared to the buffering in the network, and (2) there may be transient congestion due to fluctuations in real-time traffic, modeled here as producing random losses among the packets of the TCP connection

PBAD promoter. arabinoseexpression by vectors containing the Tight regulation, modulation, and high-level

Model predictive control is a form of control in which the current control action is obtained by solving, at each sampling instant, a finite horizon open-loop optimal control problem, using the current state of the plant as the initial state; the optimization yields an optimal control sequence

framework, we model XCP and demonstrate it is stable and efficient regardless of the link capacity, the round trip delay, and the number of sources. Extensive packet-level simulations show that XCP outperforms TCP in both conventional and high bandwidth-delay environments. Further, XCP achieves fair

In tree-based multicast systems, a relatively small number of interior nodes carry the load of forwarding multicast messages. This works well when the interior nodes are highly available, d d cated infrastructure routers but it poses a problem for application-level multicast in peer-to-peer systems