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        <title><![CDATA[Specification and Quantitative Analysis of Probabilistic Cloud Deployment Patterns]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cloud computing is a new technological paradigm offering computing infrastructure, software and platforms as a pay-as-you-go subscription based service. Many potential customer's of cloud services...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Experimental Investigation of IEEE 802.11e EDCA]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors investigate the performance of IEEE802.11e Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) using real world hardware in a realistic indoor working environment. TCP streams of different...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[QoS Performances of IEEE 802.11 EDCA and DCF: A Testbed Approach]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There has been considerable research into the performance of the enhanced IEEE 802.11e standard in recent years. Majority of the performance analysis has been based on simulations and analytical...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Investigation of PHY, MAC and APP Layers for Adaptive and Cross-Layer Optimization in IEEE802.11 WLAN]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Due to huge popularity of portable terminals based on Wireless LANs and increasing demand for multimedia services from these terminals, the earlier structures and protocols are insufficient to...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bounds on End-to-End Performance of Networks Employing Erasure Control Coding]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In packet-based IP networks, including wired and wireless sections, the end-to-end performance is governed by the protocols set at the transport layer, such as TCP and UDP. The traditional TCP's...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Investigation of H.264 Video Streaming Over an IEEE 802.11e EDCA Wireless Testbed]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Although a number of investigations have been conducted using IEEE 802.11e enabled networks to stream class differentiated video, very few reports are available based on a real testbed. In the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Testbed of Erasure Coding on Video Streaming System Over Lossy Networks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As one of the most challenging aspects of streaming video over lossy networks, the technology for controlling packet losses has attracted more and more attention. Erasure coding is one of the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cooperative Data Dissemination for Telecare Systems Via Wireless Pervasive Networking]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Telecare can support the independence and well-being of people in need of care remotely and automatically and bring about great economic and social benefits for society. In this paper, the authors...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Performance Analysis of an Experimental Wireless Relay Sensor Network]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Communication through relay channels in wireless sensor networks can create diversity and consequently improve robustness of data transmission for ubiquitous computing and networking applications....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Effect of Fading Correlation on the Performance of Cooperative Systems With Multi Relay Nodes]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Research on cooperative communication has revealed potential benefits from employing this technique in wireless networks. However, most of the work in this field pays little attention to the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Implementation and Performance Evaluation of an Experimental Wireless Relay Sensor Network]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors investigate the performance of an experimental wireless relay sensor network comprising a source node, a destination node and dedicated relay nodes. Two relaying algorithms, dynamic...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[On the Capacity of Cooperative Communication in Correlated Fading Channels]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors investigate the performance of the protocols for cooperative communications, such as amplify-forward and decode-forward, in correlated fading channels. Their analytical and simulation...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[An Improved Urban Macrocellular Model for MIMO Wireless Systems]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors present an improved model for outdoor MIMO wireless channels and its spatial fading correlation and capacity performances. The proposed model is more representative than the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Impact of Error Characteristics of an Indoor 802.11g WLAN on TCP Retransmissions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this paper, the authors present the results of extensive measurements made over an experimental wired-to-wireless testbed, which consisted of a TCP protocol combined with a real-world indoor...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Development of the Distributive Method Towards Sensing Tactile Information in Healthcare]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this paper the potential of the distributive approach is discussed through the outcome of a series of experimental In this paper the distributive approach to sensing applied to tactile sensing...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Body Beautiful?: Gender, Work And The Body In Professional Services Firms]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper explores the professional identity formation of professionals and its relationship with their embodied physical image, with a particular focus on women in accounting and law. It...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sparsely-Spread CDMA - A Statistical Mechanics Based Analysis]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sparse Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), a variation on the standard CDMA method in which the spreading (signature) matrix contains only a relatively small number of non-zero elements, is...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Innovation, Ownership And Profitability]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper considers the relationship between innovation, ownership and profitability for a panel of manufacturing plants in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Previous literature suggests that...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Automatic Visualization Pipeline Formation for Medical Datasets on Grid Computing Environment]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Distance visualization of large datasets often takes the direction of remote viewing and zooming techniques of stored static images. However, the continuous increase in the size of datasets and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:57:26 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's The Evidence, Stupid: Doing And Legitimizing Policy-Funded Research]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper explores the policy and methodological implications of research commissioned by the Enterprise Directorate of BERR, which sought to explain the impact of government regulation on small...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:34:01 -0800</pubDate>
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