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A quotient filter is a cache efficient AMQ data structure. Depending on the fill degree of the filter most insertions and queries only need to access one or two consecutive cache lines. This makes quotient filters fast compared to the more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Tobias Maier , Peter Sanders , Robert Williger

Dynamically scheduled high-level synthesis (HLS) enables the use of load-store queues (LSQs) which can disambiguate data hazards at circuit runtime, increasing throughput in codes with unpredictable memory accesses. However, the increased…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Robert Szafarczyk , Syed Waqar Nabi , Wim Vanderbauwhede

We present Hapax Locks, a novel locking algorithm that is simple, enjoys constant-time arrival and unlock paths, provides FIFO admission order, and which is also space efficient and generates relatively little coherence traffic under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Dave Dice , Alex Kogan

Systolic arrays and shared-L1-memory manycore clusters are commonly used architectural paradigms that offer different trade-offs to accelerate parallel workloads. While the first excel with regular dataflow at the cost of rigid…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Sergio Mazzola , Samuel Riedel , Luca Benini

Manycore SoC architectures based on on-chip shared memory are preferred for flexible and programmable solutions in many application domains. However, the development of many ported memory is becoming increasingly challenging as we approach…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hao Luan , Alan Gatherer

Priority queues are used in a wide range of applications, including prioritized online scheduling, discrete event simulation, and greedy algorithms. In parallel settings, classical priority queues often become a severe bottleneck, resulting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Marvin Williams , Peter Sanders

We present a deterministic oblivious LIFO (Stack), FIFO, double-ended and double-ended priority queue as well as an oblivious mergesort and quicksort algorithm. Our techniques and ideas include concatenating queues end-to-end, size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Johannes Schneider

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) is a paradigm that can improve users' spectral efficiency (SE) far beyond traditional cellular networks. Increased spatial diversity in CFmMIMO is achieved by spreading the antennas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Vida Ranjbar , Robbert Beerten , Marc Moonen , Sofie Pollin

When compared to blocking concurrency, non-blocking concurrency can provide higher performance in parallel shared-memory contexts, especially in high contention scenarios. This paper proposes FLeeC, an application-level cache system based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-17 André J. Costa , Nuno M. Preguiça , João M. Lourenço

Coded caching (CC) can transform cache memory at network devices into an active communication resource. Prior studies have shown that CC can significantly enhance the achievable Degrees of Freedom (DoF) in multi-input multi-output (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

The Transformer architecture, underpinned by the Multi-Head Attention (MHA) mechanism, has become the de facto standard for state-of-the-art models in artificial intelligence. However, the quadratic computational complexity of MHA with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Adam Filipek

This paper presents a new and practical approach to lock-free locks based on helping, which allows the user to write code using fine-grained locks, but run it in a lock-free manner. Although lock-free locks have been suggested in the past,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Naama Ben-David , Guy E. Blelloch , Yuanhao Wei

Flash memory devices are winning the competition for storage density against magnetic recording devices. This outcome results from advances in physics that allow storage of more than one bit per cell, coupled with advances in signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Ahmed Hareedy , Beyza Dabak , Robert Calderbank

This paper proposes a novel optimization framework for enhancing the security resilience of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) networks with multi-antenna access points (APs) and protective partial zero-forcing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Junbin Yu , Tianyu Lu , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Michail Matthaiou

Now days, manufacturers are focusing on increasing the concurrency in multiprocessor system-on-a-chip (MPSoC) architecture instead of increasing clock speed, for embedded systems. Traditionally lock-based synchronization is provided to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Shaily Mittal , Nitin

Concurrent data structures often require additional memory for handling synchronization issues in addition to memory for storing elements. Depending on the amount of this additional memory, implementations can be more or less…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Vitaly Aksenov , Nikita Koval , Petr Kuznetsov , Anton Paramonov

We consider durable data structures for non-volatile main memory, such as the new Intel Optane memory architecture. Substantial recent work has concentrated on making concurrent data structures durable with low overhead, by adding a minimal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Gal Sela , Erez Petrank

Safe memory reclamation (SMR) algorithms are crucial for preventing use-after-free errors in optimistic data structures. SMR algorithms typically delay reclamation for safety and reclaim objects in batches for efficiency. It is difficult to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ajay Singh , Trevor Brown , Michael Spear

Large-scale timers are ubiquitous in network processing, including flow table entry expiration control in software defined network (SDN) switches, MAC address aging in Ethernet bridges, and retransmission timeout management in TCP/IP…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zekun Wang , Binghao Yue , Weitao Pan , Jiangyi Shi , Yue Hao

Markov-modulated fluid queues (MMFQs) are a powerful modeling framework for analyzing the performance of computer and communication systems. Their distinguishing feature is that the underlying Markov process evolves on a continuous state…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Benny Van Houdt