ISCA PDCCS 2008: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
J. Jacob, Dimitrios N. Serpanos (Eds.): ISCA 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems, PDCCS 2008, September 24-26, 2008, Holiday Inn Downtown-Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. ISCA 2008 ISBN 978-1-880843-68-0
Algorithms

Ahmed A. Ahmed, Hongchi Shi, Yi Shang: Adaptive Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks: An Experimental Study. 7-12
Mitchell L. Neilsen: Verification of Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithms. 13-18
Ramakrishna Soma, Viktor K. Prasanna: A Data Partitioning Approach for Parallelizing Rule Based Inferencing for Materialized OWL Knowledge Bases. 19-25
Nong Xiao, Yinjin Fu, Enqiang Zhou: DPDP: an Adaptive Metadata Management Scheme for Petabyte-scale File Systems. 26-31
Mostafa Elbidweihy, Jerry L. Trahan: Regions Method for Online Placement of Real-Time Tasks on Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs. 32-37
Peiyi Tang: Extending Parallel Pseudo-Code Language Peril-L. 38-43
Applications
John Paul Walters, Vidyananth Balu, Vipin Chaudhary, David Kofke, Andrew Schultz: Accelerating Molecular Dynamics Simulations with GPUs. 44-49
Krunal Soni, Nisreen Cain, Edward Luke: Work Replication: A Communication Optimization in Loci. 50-55
John V. Gialelis, Dimitrios Karadimas, Petros Chondros, Athanasios P. Kalogeras, Stavros A. Koubias, Dimitrios N. Serpanos: Web Services based Collaborative B2B e-commerce in the Oil Industry. 61-67
Kokou Yétongnon, Elie Abi-Lahoud, Marco Viviani: Service Based Application Design in P2P Overlay Networks. 68-73
Gerassimos D. Barlas, Bachir El-Koussa, Mohammadhousein Afrasiabi: Using a GPU-CPU Hybrid Platform for Image Registration. 82-87
Communication Systems
Jahangir Dadkhah Chimeh, Seyed Mohammadreza Hashemiannejad: TCP/ MAC Effects on the Throughput in a Mobile Channel. 88-93
Seema Khalid, Syed Ismail Shah, Mehboob Yasin, Jamil Ahmad: Functional Memory Type Parallel Architecture for LVQ-SLM for PAPR Reduction. 94-97
Kaoukeb Kifaya, Atta Nourozian, Sid-Ahmed Selouani, Habib Hamam, Hesham Tolba: Multi-Stream Front-End Processing for Robust Distributed Speech Recognition. 98-102
Load Balancing and Scheduling
Gong Su, Donald Schmidt, Bernard R. Pierce: zBalancer: a Dual-Function CPU Load Balancer for NUMA Architectures. 103-110
Yehia H. Khalil, Adel Said Elmaghraby: Evaluating Server Load Balancing Algorithms for Data Center's Resilience Enhancement. 111-116
Chen Yu, Dan C. Marinescu: Load Distribution and Co-termination Scheduling Algorithms for Large-Scale Distributed Applications. 117-122
Safwat H. Hamad, Reda A. Ammar, Mohamed E. Khalifa, ElSayed Soleit: A Randomized Algorithm for Physical Mapping of Distributed Object-Oriented Software onto Multiprocessor Architectures. 123-128
Network Protocols and Multimedia Networking
Damayanti Datta: An Efficient Method to Guarantee Packet Delivery in Data Transfer Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks. 129-134
Meikang Qiu, Jiande Wu, Chun Jason Xue, Jingtong Hu, Wei-Che Tseng, Edwin Hsing-Mean Sha: QoS for Networked Heterogeneous Real-Time Embedded Systems. 135-140
Sedigheh Asiaban, Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam: A Framework for Bandwidth Allocation in Multimedia to Guarantee QoS. 147-151
Simulation and Modeling



John M. Calandrino, Dan P. Baumberger, Tong Li, Jessica C. Young, Scott Hahn: LinSched: The Linux Scheduler Simulator. 171-176
Systems and Software

Susumu Matsumae: Impact of Reconfigurability on Meshes with Separable Row/Column Buses. 183-186
Dane Henry, Seung-yun Kim, Osman Guzide: Achieving Single Sign-on in a Heterogeneous Collaborative Enterprise Environment: The Kerberos Approach. 187-192
Yair Wiseman: ASOSI: Asymmetric Operating System Infrastructure. 193-198
Éric Renault, Charles Ancelin, Oscar Botero, Willy Jimenez: Executing OpenMP Programs on Distributed Resources using a Source-to-Source Transformation Tool. 199-204
Ibrahim H. Suslu, Mehmet Balman, Tevfik Kosar, Fatih Turkmen: Choosing Between Remote I/O versus Staging in Large Scale Distributed Applications. 205-210
Devinder Kaur, Ying Chen: Using Software Scalable System on a Chip CT3400 for Parallel Implementation of SPIHT Algorithm for Image Compression. 211-216



