All Internet routers contain buffers to hold packets during times of congestion. Today, the size of the buffers is determined by the dynamics of TCP’s congestion control algorithm. In particular, the goal is to make sure that when a link is congested, it is busy 100% of the time; which is equivalent to making sure its buffer never goes empty. A widely used rule-of-thumb states that each link ne...

We investigate experimentally several routing algorithms for asynchronous deflection networks, i.e., ones that operate in an unslotted manner. We determine the impact of an extra input buffer space on the quality of routing decisions. Finally, we compare the performance of asynchronous and synchronous deflection networks.

We propose a method that robustly combines color and feature buffers to denoise Monte Carlo renderings. On one hand, feature buffers, such as per pixel normals, textures, or depth, are effective in determining denoising filters because features are highly correlated with rendered images. Filters based solely on features, however, are prone to blurring image details that are not well represented...

Motivated by the question of correctness of a specific implementation of concurrent buffers in the lambda calculus with futures underlying Alice ML, we prove that concurrent buffers and handled futures can correctly encode each other. Correctness means that our encodings preserve and reflect the observations of mayand must-convergence, and as a consequence also yields soundness of the encodings...

Introduction: Optical delay line buffers will be key components in future optical communications and information processing systems [1–4]. Recent research results on slow light include experimental demonstration of light speed reduction to 17 m=s in atomic vapour cells using electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) [1], a slowdown factor of more than 31 000 using population oscillations (...