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Current virtualization solutions often bear an unacceptable performance cost, limiting their use in many situations, and in particular when running I/O intensive workloads. We argue that this overhead is inherent in Popek and Goldberg’s trap-and-emulate model for machine virtualization, and propose an alternative virtualization model for multi-core systems, where unmodified guests and hyperviso...

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An impact of longitudinal structural parameter drift on crosstalk behavior of multi-core fibers is investigated with a newly proposed semi-analytical method which can easily simulate crosstalk under the various kinds of parameter drifts. The simulation results indicate that the structural parameter drift has an important role in moderating bending diameter dependence of crosstalk of multi-core ...

Article history: Received 31 December 2008 Received in revised form 9 April 2010 Accepted 9 April 2010 Available online 20 April 2010