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Optimal Prefetching in Random Trees

  • Kausthub Keshava,
  • Alain Jean-Marie and
  • Sara Alouf

1 October 2021

We propose and analyze a model for optimizing the prefetching of documents, in the situation where the connection between documents is discovered progressively. A random surfer moves along the edges of a random tree representing possible sequences of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stability Problems for Stochastic Models: Theory and Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,571 Views
19 Pages

In modern multi-core processors, memory request latency critically constrains overall performance. Prefetching, a promising technique, mitigates memory access latency by pre-loading data into faster cache structures. However, existing core-side prefe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Architecture & Parallel and Distributed Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,419 Views
23 Pages

22 January 2021

The emergence of big data processing and machine learning has triggered the exponential growth of the working set sizes of applications. In addition, several modern applications are memory intensive with irregular memory access patterns. Therefore, w...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,394 Views
31 Pages

Hardware Design of DRAM Memory Prefetching Engine for General-Purpose GPUs

  • Freddy Gabbay,
  • Benjamin Salomon,
  • Idan Golan and
  • Dolev Shema

General-purpose graphics computing on processing units (GPGPUs) face significant performance limitations due to memory access latencies, particularly when traditional memory hierarchies and thread-switching mechanisms prove insufficient for complex a...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Microelectronics and Semiconductor Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,476 Views
26 Pages

Data prefetching is essential for modern file storage systems operating in large-scale cloud and data-intensive environments, where high performance increasingly depends on intelligent, adaptive mechanisms. Traditional rule-based methods and recently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,919 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Regression Prefetching Algorithm by Using Big Data Application Characteristics

  • Mengzhao Zhang,
  • Qian Tang,
  • Jeong-Geun Kim,
  • Bernd Burgstaller and
  • Shin-Dug Kim

31 March 2023

This paper presents an innovative prefetching algorithm for a hybrid main memory structure, which consists of DRAM and phase-change memory. To enhance the efficiency of hybrid memory hardware in serving big data technologies, the proposed design empl...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,626 Views
15 Pages

16 December 2020

This research is to design a Q-selector-based prefetching method for a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)/ Phase-change memory (PCM)hybrid main memory system for memory-intensive big data applications generating irregular memory accessing streams. S...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Implementation of Efficient Future Memory Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,842 Views
14 Pages

Prefetching Method for Low-Latency Web AR in the WMN Edge Server

  • Seyun Choi,
  • Sukjun Hong,
  • Hoijun Kim,
  • Seunghyun Lee and
  • Soonchul Kwon

22 December 2022

Recently, low-latency services for large-capacity data have been studied given the development of edge servers and wireless mesh networks. The 3D data provided for augmented reality (AR) services have a larger capacity than general 2D data. In the co...

(This article belongs to the Topic Simulations and Applications of Augmented and Virtual Reality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,381 Views
16 Pages

5G/B5G mmWave Cellular Networks with MEC Prefetching Based on User Context Information

  • Kazuki Maruta,
  • Hiroaki Nishiuchi,
  • Jin Nakazato,
  • Gia Khanh Tran and
  • Kei Sakaguchi

15 September 2022

To deal with recent increasing mobile traffic, ultra-broadband communication with millimeter-wave (mmWave) has been regarded as a key technology for 5G cellular networks. In a previous study, a mmWave heterogeneous network was composed of several mmW...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Trends in Millimeter Wave Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,238 Views
18 Pages

Data-intensive applications are generating massive amounts of data which is stored on cloud computing platforms where distributed file systems are utilized for storage at the back end. Most users of those applications deployed on cloud computing syst...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,123 Views
15 Pages

The prefetcher is one of the key performance subsystems in RISC-V processors, and its design can significantly enhance memory access efficiency, reduce latency, and improve overall processor performance. This paper conducts in-depth research on the d...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,296 Views
22 Pages

BTIP: Branch Triggered Instruction Prefetcher Ensuring Timeliness

  • Wenhai Lin,
  • Yiquan Lin,
  • Yiquan Chen,
  • Shishun Cai and ,
  • Zhen Jin,
  • Jiexiong Xu,
  • Yuzhong Zhang and
  • Wenzhi Chen
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 November 2024

In CPU microarchitecture, caches store frequently accessed instructions and data by exploiting their locality, reducing memory access latency and improving application performance. However, contemporary applications with large code footprints often e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Architecture & Parallel and Distributed Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,178 Views
20 Pages

21 February 2025

The high parameter and memory access demands of CNNs highlight the need to reduce off-chip memory accesses. While recent approaches have improved data reuse to lessen these accesses, simple and efficient prefetching methods are still lacking. This pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,567 Views
22 Pages

HealthFetch: An Influence-Based, Context-Aware Prefetch Scheme in Citizen-Centered Health Storage Clouds

  • Chrysostomos Symvoulidis,
  • George Marinos,
  • Athanasios Kiourtis,
  • Argyro Mavrogiorgou and
  • Dimosthenis Kyriazis

Over the past few years, increasing attention has been given to the health sector and the integration of new technologies into it. Cloud computing and storage clouds have become essentially state of the art solutions for other major areas and have st...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,127 Views
13 Pages

CluMP: Clustered Markov Chain for Storage I/O Prefetch

  • Sungmin Jung,
  • Hyeonmyeong Lee and
  • Heeseung Jo

Due to advancements in CPU and storage technologies, the processing speed of tasks has been increasing. However, there has been a relative slowdown in the data transfer speeds between disks and memory. Consequently, the issue of I/O processing speed...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,885 Views
33 Pages

Refresh Rate-Based Caching and Prefetching Strategies for Internet of Things Middleware

  • Alexey Medvedev,
  • Alireza Hassani,
  • Gleb Belov,
  • Shakthi Weerasinghe and ,
  • Guang-Li Huang,
  • Arkady Zaslavsky,
  • Seng W. Loke and
  • Prem Prakash Jayaraman
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

27 October 2023

One of the research directions in Internet of Things (IoT) is the field of Context Management Platforms (CMPs) which is a specific type of IoT middleware. CMPs provide horizontal connectivity between vertically oriented IoT silos resulting in a notic...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,143 Views
13 Pages

8 March 2018

As one of the most important applications in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, the video-on-demand (VoD) system freely supports video cassette recorder (VCR) operation for users. However, the users may experience significant playback delay after frequent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Crowdsensing and Its Security, Privacy and Trust Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,607 Views
18 Pages

In-Memory Caching for Enhancing Subgraph Accessibility

  • Kyoungsoo Bok,
  • Seunghun Yoo,
  • Dojin Choi,
  • Jongtae Lim and
  • Jaesoo Yoo

9 August 2020

Graphs have been utilized in various fields because of the development of social media and mobile devices. Various studies have also been conducted on caching techniques to reduce input and output costs when processing a large amount of graph data. I...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,990 Views
22 Pages

19 June 2015

Despite the remarkable improvement of hardware and network technology, the inevitable delay from a user’s command action to a system response is still one of the most crucial influence factors in user experiences (UXs). Especially for a web video ser...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue HCI In Smart Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,379 Views
17 Pages

An FPGA-Based Reconfigurable Accelerator for Real-Time Affine Transformation in Industrial Imaging Heterogeneous SoC

  • Yang Zhang,
  • Dejun Chen,
  • Huixiong Ruan,
  • Hongyu Jia and ,
  • Yong Liu and
  • Ying Luo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 January 2026

Real-time affine transformation, a core operation for image correction and registration of industrial cameras and scanners, faces challenges including the high computational cost of interpolation and inefficient data access. In this study, we propose...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,702 Views
14 Pages

15 December 2024

Recently, AI systems such as autonomous driving and smart homes have become integral to daily life. Intelligent multi-sensors, once limited to single data types, now process complex text and image data, demanding faster and more accurate processing....

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,772 Views
19 Pages

The emerging 5G mobile networks are essential enablers for mobile virtual reality (VR) video streaming applications assuring high quality of experience (QoE) at the end-user. In addition, mobile edge computing brings computational resources closer to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,913 Views
21 Pages

Modern x86 processors incorporate performance-enhancing features such as prefetching mechanisms, cache coherence protocols, and support for large memory pages (e.g., 2 MB huge pages). While these architectural innovations aim to reduce memory access...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,905 Views
14 Pages

18 February 2017

Recently, P2P streaming techniques have been a promising solution to a large-scale live streaming system because of their high scalability and low installation cost. In P2P live streaming systems, however, it is difficult to manage peers’ buffers eff...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,235 Views
18 Pages

3 February 2020

Recently, non-volatile memory (NVM) has advanced as a fast storage medium, and legacy memory subsystems optimized for DRAM (dynamic random access memory) and HDD (hard disk drive) hierarchies need to be revisited. In this article, we explore the memo...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
164 Views
31 Pages

23 October 2026

Modern network communication systems require reliable data transmission while maintaining high performance and low latency. This study proposes a retransmission-aware Set-Associative Memory Management (SAMM) architecture integrating adaptive replacem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,968 Views
24 Pages

Graph traversal is widely used in map routing, social network analysis, causal discovery and many more applications. Because it is a memory-bound process, graph traversal puts significant pressure on the memory subsystem. Due to poor spatial locality...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,708 Views
17 Pages

13 July 2020

For coded caching problems with small buffer sizes and the number of users no less than the amount of files in the server, an optimal delivery scheme was proposed by Chen, Fan, and Letaief in 2016. This scheme is referred to as the CFL scheme. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Interplay between Storage, Computing, and Communications from an Information-Theoretic Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,853 Views
19 Pages

26 April 2023

Recently, specifically designed video codecs have been preferred due to the expansion of video data in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) is the entropy coding module widely used in recent video coding...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image/Video Coding and Processing Techniques for Intelligent Sensor Nodes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
969 Views
26 Pages

4 August 2025

We consider the problem of privately updating a message out of K messages from N replicated and non-colluding databases where a user has an outdated version of the message W^θ of length L bits that differ from the current version Wθ in at...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information-Theoretic Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,856 Views
21 Pages

Vectorization Programming Based on HR DSP Using SIMD

  • Chunhu Xie,
  • Huachun Wu and
  • Jian Zhou

Single instruction multiple data (SIMD) vector extension has become an essential feature of high-performance processors. Architectures such as x86, ARM, MIPS, and PowerPC have specific vector extension instruction sets and SIMD micro-architectures. U...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Computing and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,064 Views
24 Pages

25 November 2022

The unprecedented availability of petascale analysis-ready earth observation data has given rise to a remarkable surge in demand for regional to global environmental studies, which exploit tons of data for temporal–spatial analysis at a much la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Methods for Spatiotemporal Pattern Mining of Remote Sensing Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,572 Views
17 Pages

19 August 2024

To ensure the timely execution of hard real-time applications, scheduling analysis techniques must consider safe upper bounds on the possible execution durations of tasks or runnables, which are referred to as Worst-Case Execution Times (WCET). Bound...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art of Network Attack Detection and Situation Awareness Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,658 Views
24 Pages

Efficient Management and Scheduling of Massive Remote Sensing Image Datasets

  • Jiankun Zhu,
  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Fei Zhao,
  • Haoran Su and ,
  • Zhengnan Gu and
  • Leilei Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The rapid development of remote sensing image sensor technology has led to exponential increases in available image data. The real-time scheduling of gigabyte-level images and the storage and management of massive image datasets are incredibly challe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,466 Views
21 Pages

22 February 2018

The performance bottleneck of transparent computing (TC) is on the server side. Caching is one of the key factors of the server-side performance. The count of disk input/output (I/O) can be reduced if multiple data blocks that are correlated with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,531 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2025

In the era of multi-core technology, efficient communication among numerous IP cores has become a critical challenge. Network-on-chip (NoC) technology provides a scalable and effective solution, attracting significant attention in academia and indust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,053 Views
17 Pages

Efficient Modeling and Usage of Scratchpad Memory for Artificial Intelligence Accelerators

  • Cagla Irmak Rumelili Köksal and
  • Sıddıka Berna Örs Yalçın

Deep learning accelerators play a crucial role in enhancing computation-intensive AI applications. Optimizing system resources—such as shared caches, on-chip SRAM, and data movement mechanisms—is essential for achieving peak performance a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in AI Hardware Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,362 Views
20 Pages

24 September 2025

The rapid growth of data-intensive applications has imposed significant demands on the performance of distributed file systems, particularly in metadata operations. Traditional systems rely heavily on metadata servers to handle indexing tasks, leadin...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,568 Views
17 Pages

Bandwidth-Aware Rescheduling Mechanism in SDN-Based Data Center Networks

  • Ming-Chin Chuang,
  • Chia-Cheng Yen and
  • Chia-Jui Hung

Recently, with the increase in network bandwidth, various cloud computing applications have become popular. A large number of network data packets will be generated in such a network. However, most existing network architectures cannot effectively ha...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
12,036 Views
30 Pages

A Survey of Advancements in Scheduling Techniques for Efficient Deep Learning Computations on GPUs

  • Rupinder Kaur,
  • Arghavan Asad,
  • Seham Al Abdul Wahid and
  • Farah Mohammadi

This comprehensive survey explores recent advancements in scheduling techniques for efficient deep learning computations on GPUs. The article highlights challenges related to parallel thread execution, resource utilization, and memory latency in GPUs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Applications of FPGAs and Reconfigurable Computing System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,885 Views
16 Pages

Architecture Design of a Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator for Heterogeneous Computing Based on a Fused Systolic Array

  • Yang Zong,
  • Zhenhao Ma,
  • Jian Ren,
  • Yu Cao and ,
  • Meng Li and
  • Bin Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 January 2026

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) generally suffer from excessive computational overhead, high resource consumption, and complex network structures, which severely restrict the deployment on microprocessor chips. Existing related accelerators only...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,724 Views
24 Pages

Optimized Spatiotemporal Data Scheduling Based on Maximum Flow for Multilevel Visualization Tasks

  • Qing Zhu,
  • Meite Chen,
  • Bin Feng,
  • Yan Zhou and ,
  • Maosu Li,
  • Zhaowen Xu,
  • Yulin Ding,
  • Mingwei Liu,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Xiao Xie
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Massive spatiotemporal data scheduling in a cloud environment play a significant role in real-time visualization. Existing methods focus on preloading, prefetching, multithread processing and multilevel cache collaboration, which waste hardware resou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Geospatial Science: Analytics and Management for Large Geospatial Datasets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,901 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of Data Persistence in Collaborative Content Creation Systems: The Wikipedia Case

  • Lorenzo Bracciale,
  • Pierpaolo Loreti,
  • Andrea Detti and
  • Nicola Blefari Melazzi

25 October 2019

A very common problem in designing caching/prefetching systems, distribution networks, search engines, and web-crawlers is determining how long a given content lasts before being updated, i.e., its update frequency. Indeed, while some content is not...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,189 Views
16 Pages

Directed acyclic graph (DAG)-aware task scheduling algorithms have been studied extensively in recent years, and these algorithms have achieved significant performance improvements in data-parallel analytic platforms. However, current DAG-aware task...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,225 Views
13 Pages

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have been proposed as revolutionary applications for the next generation, especially in education. Many VR applications have been designed to promote learning via virtual environments and 360° video...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Applications of 5G Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,868 Views
12 Pages

Evaluation of External Memory Access Performance on a High-End FPGA Hybrid Computer

  • Konstantinos Kalaitzis,
  • Evripidis Sotiriadis,
  • Ioannis Papaefstathiou and
  • Apostolos Dollas

The motivation of this research was to evaluate the main memory performance of a hybrid super computer such as the Convey HC-x, and ascertain how the controller performs in several access scenarios, vis-à-vis hand-coded memory prefetches. Such memory...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,074 Views
18 Pages

10 September 2018

With the rapid development of mobile devices and sensors, effective searching methods for big spatial data have recently received a significant amount of attention. Owing to their large size, many applications typically store recently generated spati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science and Internet of Everything (IoE))
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,004 Views
14 Pages

31 March 2021

Emerging scale-out I/O intensive applications are broadly used now, which process a large amount of data in buffer/cache for reorganization or analysis and their performances are greatly affected by the speed of the I/O system. Efficient management s...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,040 Views
28 Pages

14 April 2022

Military, space, and high-speed civilian applications will continue contributing to the renewed interest in compressible, high-speed turbulent boundary layers. To further complicate matters, these flows present complex computational challenges rangin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Turbulence and Multiphase Flows and Symmetry)

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