41. COMPCON 1996: Santa Clara, California

COMPCON 1996, Forty-First IEEE Computer Society International Conference: Technologies for the Information Superhighway, Santa Clara, California, February 25-28, 1996, Digest of Papers. IEEE-CS Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8186-7414-8

Wireless Interconnects

Tim Melanchuk, Pierre Dupont, Simon Backer: CDPD and Emerging Digital Cellular Systems. 2-8
Robert L. Geiger, James D. Solomon, Kenneth J. Crisler: Wireless Network Extension using Mobile IP. 9-14
Randy H. Katz, Eric A. Brewer, Elan Amir, Hari Balakrishnan, Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Todd D. Hodes, Daniel Jiang, Giao Thanh Nguyen, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Mark Stemm: The Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN). 15-20

ATM Networks

Lawrence G. Roberts: Performance of Explicit Rate Flow Control in ATM Networks. 22-25
Subir Varma: MPEG-2 over ATM: System Design Issues. 26-31
Dimitrios Stiliadis, Anujan Varma: FAST: A Simulation Testbed for ATM Networks. 32-37

Broadband Interactive Data Services

Ilja Bedner, Alex Ranous: HP BIDS - Broadband Interactive Data Solution. 39-44
Dennis Picker: Design Considerations for a Hybrid Fiber Coax High-Speed Data Access Network. 45-50

Agent Languages

Peter Dömel: Mobile Telescript Agents and the Web. 52-57
Joseph Tardo, Luis Valente: Mobile Agent Security and Telescript. 58-63

World Wide Web

James Gwertzman, Margo I. Seltzer: People, Places, and Things: The Next Generation Web. 65-70
Thomas Ball, Fred Douglis: An Internet Difference Engine and its Applications. 71-76
William R. Tuthill: Don't Get Caught In The Web: A Fieldguide To Searching The Net. 77-83

World Wide Web Servers

Daniel M. Dias, William Kish, Rajat Mukherjee, Renu Tewari: A Scalable and Highly Available Web Server. 85-92

Performance Characterization and Analysis

Scott McMahon: The Capture, Characterization and Performance Analysis of Macintosh® Traces. 94-99
Thomas L. Adams: A Measurement Study of Memory Transaction Characteristics on a PowerPC-Based Macintosh. 100-110
Edward H. Welbon, Roy S. Moore, Frank E. Levine, Charles P. Roth: Load Miss Performance Analysis Methodology Using the PowerPC(tm) 604 Performance Monitor for OLTP Workloads. 111-116
Kaivalya M. Dixit, James Van Fleet, Bret R. Olszewski: Workload Effects on SMP Scaling in AIX Version 4. 117-123

PowerPC Microprocessor and Systems

Marvin Denman, Paul Anderson, Mike Snyder: Design of the PowerPC 604e(tm) Microprocessor. 126-131
Christopher D. Bryant, Michael J. Garcia, Brian K. Reynolds, Laura A. Weber, Glen E. Wilson: The Performance and PowerPC Platform (tm) Specification Implementation of the MPC106 Chipset. 132-139
Steve Bunch, Ron Hochsprung, Todd Moore: PowerPC Platform: A System Architecture. 140-144
Tariq Afzal, Mauricio Breternitz Jr., M. Kacher, S. Menyhert, M. Ommerman, W. Su: Motorola PowerPC Migration Tools - Emulation and Translation. 145-150

PA-RISC Evolution

Ruby B. Lee, Jerome C. Huck: 64-bit and Multimedia Extensions in the PA-RISC 2.0 Architecture. 152-160
Roy Elsbernd: Mid-Range and High-End PA-RISC Computer Systems. 161-166
Dave Hollenbeck, Steven R. Undy, Leith Johnson, Don Weiss, Paul Tobin, Richard Carlson: PA7300LC Integrates Cache for Cost/Performance. 167-174

Having it Your Way - High Code Density, High-Integration, and High Performance ARMs

Liam Goudge, Simon Segars: Thumb: Reducing the Cost of 32-bit RISC Performance in Portable and Consumer Applications. 176-181
Graham Budd, George J. Milne: ARM7100 - A High-Integration, Low-Power Microcontroller for PDA Applications. 182-187
Richard T. Witek, James Montanaro: StrongARM: A High-Performance ARM Processor. 188-191

MPEG2

Agnes Ngai: A Scalable Chip Set for MPEG2 Real Time Encoding. 193-198
Sam Liu: Performance Compression of MPEG1 and MPEG2 Video Compression Standards. 199-203
Vasudev Bhaskaran: Media Processing in the Compressed Domain. 204-209
Jan Fandrianto: Single Chip MPEG2 Decoder with Integrated Transport Decoder for Set-top Box. 469-472

Interactive Television

Satish Rege: A Distributed System Client/Server Architecture for Interactive Multimedia Applications. 211-218
Carl J. Beckmann: Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for Interactive Video Applications over Corporate Networks. 219-225
Roger L. Haskin, Frank B. Schmuck: The Tiger Shark File System. 226-231

Interactive TV Settop

Ajith N. Nair: Interactive Television Settop Terminal Architechtures. 233-238
Ran-Fun Chiu, Robert C. Hutchinson: Multimedia Transmission Link Protocol - A Proposal for Digital Information Transmission in HFC Cable Systems. 239-240
Andrew Davidson: DAVID® System Software v2.0 for Interactive Digital Television Networks. 241-242

Scalable Clusters

Richard B. Gillett, Michael Collins, David Pimm: Overview of Memory Channel Network for PCI. 244-249
Richard Kaufmann, Tim Reddin: Digital's Clusters and Parallel Scientific Applications. 250-253
Wayne M. Cardoza, Frederick S. Glover, William E. Snaman Jr.: Overview of Digital UNIX Cluster System Architecture. 254-259

HAL Computer Systems

Albert Mu, Jeff Larson, Raghu Sastry, Thomas Wicki, Winfried W. Wilcke: A 9.6 GigaByte/s Throughput Plesiochronous Routing Chip. 261-266
F. Prefect, L. Doan, Thomas Wicki, Winfried W. Wilcke: Performance Limiting Factors in Http (Web) Server Operations. 267-272

Exploiting New Storage and Network Technologies

Andrew Wilson: SSA: A High Performance Serial Interface for Unparalleled Connectivity. 274-279
Daniel Alexander Ford, Robert J. T. Morris, Alan E. Bell: Redundant Arrays of Independent Libraries (RAIL): A Tertiary Storage System. 280-285
Steven Berson, Richard R. Muntz, Wai-Man R. Wong: Randomized Data Allocation for Real-Time Disk I/O. 286-290
David M. Choy, Robert J. T. Morris: Services and Architectures for Electronic Publishing. 291-297

Multimedia Authoring

Hal Steger: Graphical Object-Oriented Multimedia Application Development: Technology and Market Trends. 299
Hernán Epelman-Wang, Sidney Markowitz, Brian Roddy: Graphical Containment in Multimedia Authoring. 300-304
Brian Roddy, Sidney Markowitz, Hernán Epelman-Wang: User Interfaces for Authoring Systems with Object Stores. 305-309

Competing Architectures for Multimedia Processing

Pete Foley: The Mpact (tm) Media Processor Redefines the Multimedia PC. 311-318
Selliah Rathnam, Gert Slavenburg: An Architectural Overview of the Programmable Multimedia Processor, TM-1. 319-326
Daniel F. Zucker, Michael J. Flynn, Ruby B. Lee: Improving Performance for MPEG Players. 327-332

The MicroUnity MediaProcessor

Craig Hansen: Architecture of a Broadband MediaProcessor. 334-340
Raymond Hayes, Guillermo Loyola, Curtis Abbott, Henry Massalin: MicroUnity Software Development Environment. 341-348
Curtis Abbott, Henry Massalin, Kevin Peterson, Tom Karzes, Larry Yamano, Gregg Kellogg: Broadband Algorithms with the MicroUnity MediaProcessor. 349-354

DRAM Technologies

Allan Mormann: Burst and Latency Requirements Drive EDO and BEDO DRAM Standards. 356-359
Adrian Cosoroaba: Synchronous DRAM Evolutionary Changes Bring Cost/Performance Advantages in Memory Systems. 360-364
Richard Crisp: High Bandwidth RDRAM Technology Reduces System Cost. 365-377
Tim Robinson, Craig Hansen, Bill Herndon, Geert Rosseel: Multi-Gigabyte/sec DRAM with the MicroUnity MediaChannel Interface. 378-381

Pentium Pro System Architecture

Nitin Sarangdhar, Gurbir Singh: An Overview of the Pentium® Pro Processor Bus. 383-387
Mike Bell, Tom Holman: Pentium® Pro Processor Workstation/Server PCI Chipset. 388-394
Deborah T. Marr, Shreekant S. Thakkar, Richard Zucker: Multiprocessor Validation of the Pentium® Pro Microprocessor. 395-400

Storage Technology

Janos Kovacs, Ronald Kroesen: Data Storage IC Technology. 402-406

UltraSPARC and Java

Partha Tirumalai, Dale Greenley, Boris Beylin, Krishna Subramanian: UltraSPARC: Compiling for Maximum Floating-Point Performance. 408-416
Gary Goldman, Partha Tirumalai: UltraSPARC-II: The Advancement of UltraComputing. 417-423
Sami Shaio, Arthur van Hoff, Herb Jellinek: Java and HotJava: A Comprehensive Overview. 424-429

Desktop Color: From Eye to Paper

John Dalton: Digital Cameras and Electronic Color Image Acquisition. 431-434
Gary Starkweather: Electronic Color Printing Technology. 435-439
Wei-Ling Chu, Steve Swen: ColorSync(tm): Synchronizing the Color Behavior of Your Devices. 440-444

Architecture of Workflow Management Systems

Sunil K. Sarin: Object-Oriented Workflow Technology in InConcert. 446-450
Berthold Reinwald, C. Mohan: Structured Workflow Management with Lotus Notes Release 4. 451-457
Moredachi Beizer: An Architecture for Large-Scale Work Management Systems. 458-461

Toy Story

Mark Henne, Hal Hickel, Ewan Johnson, Sonoko Konishi: The Making of Toy Story. 463-468