In software transactional memory (STM) systems, a contention manager resolves conflicts among transactions accessing the same memory locations. Whereas atomicity and serializability of the transactions are guaranteed at all times, the contention manager is of crucial importance for guaranteeing that the system as a whole makes progress. A number of different contention management policies have ...

The Medium Access Control (MAC) scheme proposed by DAVIC/DVB, IEEE 802.14 and DOCSIS for the upstream channel of Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) access networks is based on a mixable contention-based/contention-less time slot assignment. Contention-less slots are assigned by the head end to end stations according to a reservation scheme. Contentionbased slots are randomly accessed by active terminal...

In this paper, we are concerned about the performance estimation of bus-based architectures assuming that the task partitioning on the processing components is already determined. Since the communication behavior is usually unpredictable due to dynamic bus requests of processing components, bus contention, and so on, simulation based approach seems inevitable for accurate performance estimation...