Improved Prefetching Techniques for Linked Data Structures

My master’s thesis investigated improved prefetching techniques for linked data structures — pointer-intensive structures where sequential prefetching fails due to irregular memory access patterns.

Advised by Prof. Nikos Hardavellas (opens in new tab), with committee members Prof. Peter Dinda (opens in new tab) and Prof. Russ Joseph (opens in new tab).

Available on arXiv (opens in new tab) (cs.AR) and the Northwestern repository (opens in new tab).