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A Framework for Computing the Privacy Scores of Users in Online Social Networks
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A large body of work has been devoted to address corporate-scale privacy concerns related to social networks. The main focus was on how to share social networks owned by organizations without...
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Spatial Outsourcing for Location-Based Services
November 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
The embedding of positioning capabilities in mobile devices and the emergence of location-based applications have created novel opportunities for utilizing several types of multidimensional data...
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A Linear Type System for Multicore Programming
June 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
ATS is a recently developed functional programming language that supports both linear and dependent types. They formalize a type system capable of guaranteeing safe manipulation of resources on...
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Improving Workplace Conditions Through Strategic Enforcement
May 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The challenges facing the major agencies in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that regulate conditions in the workplace are daunting. Public policies on health and safety, discrimination, and...
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Analysis Of Mortgage Backed Securities
August 10, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Valuation of mortgage backed securities (MBSs) and a collateralized mortgage obligation (CMOs) is the big science of the financial world. There are many moving parts, each one drawing on expertise...
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Markup Pricing Revisited
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper examines whether pre-bid target stock price runups lower bidder takeover gains and deter short-term toehold purchases in the runup period. A dollar increase in the runup raises the...
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Destruction Of Value: An Analysis Of Manager Selection Decisions By Institutional Plan Sponsors
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Prior research has examined the institutional asset management industry and documented the factors which influence plan sponsors' decisions to place assets with investment products or managers....
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Providing a Cloud Network Infrastructure on a Supercomputer
April 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Supercomputers and clouds both strive to make a large number of computing cores available for computation. More recently, similar objectives such as low-power, manageability at scale, and low cost...
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Have Consumers Made A Change?
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Kristen McCormack asks "Have consumers made a change?" Jeffery Swartz, Timberland President & CEO, discusses consumers' impact on sustainability, as well as the company's...
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How To Collaborate With Competitors On Social Change
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Jeffery Swartz, Timberland President & CEO, discusses how he engages with the competition as a business leader working towards climate change. He reviews the challenges, the high level of...
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Nation, Culture, Geography: Impact On Innovation
November 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this interview, Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation Jeffrey Furman disscusses his work on how innovation is impacted (or not) by nation, culture and geography.
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Nano-Technology: Jumping The Valley Of Death
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Here, Stine Grodal, Boston University School of Management Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation, discusses new innovations in the nano-tech field, the role that government and science...
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Ron Curhan On DeMoulas, Demand, And The Risk Of Breaking The Scale Barrier
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Upon the opening of New England's largest supermarket, the 135,000 sq.ft. DeMoulas Market Basket located in the working-class community of Chelsea, Boston University School of Management's Ron...
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WBZ TV Asks Bobbie Clarke, Is Abercrombie's Ad Campaign Sexy, Sleazy, Or Even Legal?
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Amid controversy over the store Abercrombie and Kent's latest ad campaign, WBZ TV interviews Boston University School of Management's Roberta (Bobbie) Clarke, Associate Professor of Marketing,...
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Smart Grid As A Business Platform: Innovation, Adaptation, And Systems Challenges In The Clean Energy Market
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Webcast from the event "Smart Grid as a Business Platform: Innovation, Adaptation, and Systems Challenges in the Clean Energy Market," hosted by Boston University School of Management at the Time...
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First Mover Advantage, Services' Impact On Firm Performance, And Dynamic Capabilities
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Fernando Suarez, Chair, Strategy and Innovation Department, discusses his research background and some of his recent projects: his work on "First mover advantage" in rapidly changing markets; the...
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Prof. N. Venkatraman On How "Competing In The Global Economy" Helps Firms Re-Think Operations
August 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, N. Venkat Venkatraman, the David J. McGrath, Jr. Professor in Management, and the 22nd most-cited management scholar across the globe, discusses the executive program "Competing...
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CB Bhattacharya On Stakeholder Reactions And ROI From CSR Activities
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast from the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, CB Bhattacharya discusses his latest research, which shows that...
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Shuba Srinivasan Combines Hard And Soft Marketing Metrics
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Shuba Srinivasan, in her talk at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, explains her latest research, which integrates the...
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Sucharita Chandran Counts Zero As A Special Price
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Sucharita Chandran, in her presentation at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, discusses different strategies for marketing...
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Susan Fournier Talks Politics, Community, And Conflict In Marketing
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Susan Fournier, in her presentation at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, talks about the importance of recognizing the...
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Frederic Brunel On Visual Cues In Product And Package Design
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Frederic Brunel, in his talk at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, discusses the meanings we ascribe to different images and how...
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Lou Lataif Discusses Developing A Feel For The "Art" Of Business And Marketing
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Louis E. Lataif, in his talk at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, talks about the importance of developing a feel for the "Art"...
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Professor N Venkatraman On The History Of Globalization
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, from a talk at the Keane Institute about Boston University School of Management's new Institute for Global Work, Professor N Venkatraman, the David J. McGrath, Jr. Professor in...
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Waiting For Stabilization
January 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, Senior Associate Dean Mike Lawson and faculty colleagues Don Smith and Mark Williams from the Finance Department at the School of Management, and Con Hurley, Director of the Morin...
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Aligning Business And The Commons
October 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Executive Director of the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program Judith Samuelson provides an overview of the business education mission of her organization, suggesting that business...
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Social Responsibility In The Firearms Industry
October 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Professor of Marketing at University of North Florida Gregory Gundlach shares some of his insights on the firearms distribution system's efforts to shore up weaknesses that lead to illegal...
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Consumers And Their Values
October 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Associate Professor of Marketing at University of Texas at Austin Meme Drumwright discusses the importance of examining consumer values and behaviors to inform socially responsible marketing...
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Global Connectivity: The Risks, Opportunities, And Pitfalls Of Globalization
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
This webcast shows highlights from the Boston University School of Management event "Global Connectivity: The Future of Work in a Wired World," held at the Time & Life Conference Center in New...
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Global Connectivity: The Future Of Work In A Wired World
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
This webcast shows highlights from the Boston University School of Management event "Global Connectivity: The Future of Work in a Wired World," held at the Time & Life Conference Center in New...
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Hurricane On Wall Street: Managing Large-Scale Financial Crises
September 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Zvi Bodie, the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Finance and Economics, Boston University School of Management, proposes solutions to the financial sector for managing crisis. He explains why...
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CB Bhattacharya Discusses Customer Relationship Management
September 20, 2006, 12:00am PDT
CB Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of Marketing at Boston University School of Management, discusses what successful companies understand about enabling customer relationship management and...
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Symposium 2007: Turning Vision Into Strategy
February 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
The 8th annual one-day business conference bringing together over 500 MBA students, alumni, faculty, and distinguished corporate professionals, and is the largest student-run event at Boston...
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Michael Lawson Discusses Apple's Release Of The iPhone
June 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Mike Lawson, Professor of Information Systems, discusses how iPhone continues to accelerate changes in the music industry while portending even greater transformations - and perhaps signifying the...
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N. Venkatraman Discusses Apple's Release Of The iPhone
June 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
N. Venkatraman, Professor of Information Systems, asserts that iPhone is not just another product launch: it's the "Prototypical example" of the shifts we'll see in 21st-century industries,...
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Jim Post Discusses Ethics And Corporate Governance In The 21st Century
September 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Jim Post, Boston University School of Management Professor of Strategy & Policy, is one of the most widely cited experts in ethics and corporate governance in the nation. Here, he discusses...
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Susan Fournier On Her Award-Winning Research Into Why Brands Matter
September 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Susan Fournier, Boston University School of Management Associate Professor of Marketing, discusses her award-winning research "Brands Matter: An Empirical Demonstration of the Creation of...
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F. Brunel Discusses How Companies Can Protect Their Reputations Amidst The Made-In-China Recalls
October 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Frederic Brunel, Associate Professor of Marketing at Boston University School of Management talks to NECN about consumer responses to the massive made-in-China recalls, and how companies affected...
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Olesya Shubov, Student In Math Finance, Discusses Stochastic Calculus
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Olesya Shubov discusses her favorite class in the Mathematical Finance Program, Stochastic Calculus, because it combines theoretical knowledge and the computational skills needed to program...
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90-Second Rxs For The Banking And Jobs Crises
May 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mark Williams, Executive-in-Residence, Finance and Economics provides his 90-second prescriptions for the banking and jobs crises to CNN: keep people in their homes and provide support for...
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Distributed Server Migration for Scalable Internet Service Deployment
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The effectiveness of service provisioning in large-scale networks is highly dependent on the number and location of service facilities deployed at various hosts. The classical, centralized...
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BU International MBA Alumni 1.5.10 (iOS)
April 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The official BU School of Management International MBA Alumni app. Securely network and connect with IMBA Alumni around the world. Includes a directory integrated with LinkedIn, maps, photos and...
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BU Alumni Crib Sheet 2.1 (iOS)
February 29, 2012, 12:00am PST
Offered by the Boston University Alumni Association for our alumni, crib sheet is your way to stay current with campus news, alumni events, benefits, and much more. The app is also your real-world...
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Connected Identifying Codes
March 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of generating a connected identifying code for an arbitrary graph. After a brief motivation, they show that the decision problem regarding the existence of such a...
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Universally Composable Security With Local Adversaries
April 3, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The traditional approach to formalizing ideal-model based definitions of security for multi-party protocols model adversaries (both real and ideal) as centralized entities that control all parties...
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A Unified Approach to Deterministic Encryption: New Constructions and a Connection to Computational Entropy
January 6, 2012, 12:00am PST
Public-key cryptosystems require randomness: indeed, if the encryption operation is deterministic, the adversary can simply use the public key to verify that the ciphertext c corresponds to its...
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On Equilibrium Analysis of Acyclic Multiclass Loss Networks Under Admission Control
May 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider equilibrium analysis of several dynamic resource sharing policies for multiclass loss networks with acyclic topologies. The policies of interest are based on the principle of...
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Throughput-Competitive Advance Reservation With Bounded Path Dispersion
December 31, 2010, 12:00am PST
In response to the high throughput needs of grid and cloud computing applications, several production networks have recently started to support advance reservation of dedicated circuits. An...
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A Relay-Assisted Distributed Source Coding Problem
August 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A relay-assisted distributed source coding problem with three statistically correlated sources is formulated and studied. Natural lower bounds for the rates are presented. The lower bounds are...
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Limits and Opportunities for Designing Manycore Processor-to-Memory Networks Using Monolithic Silicon Photonics
October 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
To sustain the historic performance improvement in VLSI systems, while remaining within the power envelope, the trend has moved towards designing multiple cores on a single die. However, if...
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Design-Space Exploration for CMOS Photonic Processor Networks
January 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a review of recent advances in building high-throughput, energy-efficient photonic networks for core-to-core and core-to-DRAM communication in many-core processor systems. To...
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A Modality for Safe Resource Sharing and Code Reentrancy
August 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The potential of linear logic in facilitating reasoning on resource usage has long been recognized. However, convincing uses of linear types in practical programming are still rather rare. In this...
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Mixture Models of Endhost Network Traffic
February 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
In recent years there has been much interest in modeling internet traffic that comes from inside large networks, such as at routers or gateways. In this paper, the authors focus on modeling a...
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Swarming on Optimized Graphs for N-Way Broadcast
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors showed that swarming protocols for bulk data transfers perform much better when operating over optimized overlay topologies that take into consideration the end-to-end...
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On the Performance and Robustness of Managing Reliable Transport Connections
April 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors revisit the problem of connection management for reliable transport. At one extreme, a pure Soft-State (SS) approach safely removes the state of a connection at the sender and receiver...
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Seed Scheduling for Peer-to-Peer Networks
April 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The initial phase in a content distribution (file sharing) scenario is a delicate phase due to the lack of global knowledge and the dynamics of the overlay. An unwise distribution of the pieces in...
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On Supporting Mobility and Multihoming in Recursive Internet Architectures
October 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As the Internet has evolved and grown, an increasing number of nodes (hosts or autonomous systems) have become multihomed, i.e., a node is connected to more than one network. Mobility can be...
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On the Cost of Supporting Mobility and Multihoming
May 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As the Internet has evolved and grown, an increasing number of nodes (hosts or autonomous systems) have become multihomed, i.e., a node is connected to more than one network. Multihoming can be...
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Posit: An Adaptive Framework for Lightweight IP Geolocation
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Location-specific Internet services are predicated on the ability to identify the geographic position of IP hosts accurately. Fundamental to prior geolocation techniques is their reliance on...
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A Domain-Specific Language for Incremental and Modular Design of Large-Scale Verifiably-Safe Flow Networks
July 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors define a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) to inductively assemble flow networks from small networks or modules to produce arbitrarily large ones, with interchangeable...
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The Denotational and Static Semantics of a Domain-Specific Language for Flow-Network Design
July 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Flow networks are inductively defined, assembled from small network modules to produce arbitrarily large ones, with interchangeable and expanding functionally-equivalent parts. The authors carry...
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A Framework for the Evaluation and Management of Network Centrality
October 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Network-analysis literature is rich in node-centrality measures that quantify the centrality of a node as a function of the (shortest) paths of the network that go through it. Existing work...
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Slice Embedding Solutions for Distributed Service Architectures
December 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
Network virtualization provides a novel approach to run multiple concurrent virtual networks over a common physical network infrastructure. From a research perspective, this enables the networking...
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Pricing Strategies for Spectrum Lease in Secondary Markets
August 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop analytical models to characterize pricing of spectrum rights in cellular CDMA networks. Specifically, they consider a primary license holder that aims to lease its spectrum...
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Blocking Bounds for Random Channel Selection on Tree Topologies
August 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Non-loopy network topologies are considered under the limitation that a channel can be utilized only if it is idle at all neighboring sites. Random channel selection is studied under a standard...
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Profitability of Dynamic Spectrum Provision for Secondary Use
February 25, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors characterize policies and prices for secondary spectrum provision whose profitability is insensitive to the demand curve. In more explicit terms, the paper provides a critical price...
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On Spectrum Sharing in Narrowband Cellular Wireless Networks
March 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors study secondary spectrum sharing in narrow-band cellular networks in which calls in neighboring cells need to be assigned different channels. Analysis of such networks are in general...
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On Fair Sharing of Spectrum Via CSMA
October 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors contrast CSMA and TDMA schemes for medium access in spatially dispersed wireless networks under the primary interference model. CSMA is based on random access via dynamically tuned...
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Scaling Laws of Cognitive Networks
April 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Currently, spectrum access is granted to entities in an exclusive primary license fashion: licenses in certain bands are auctioned off to the private sector, while others are dedicated for use by...
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Handover in VLC Systems With Cooperating Mobile Devices
October 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Visible Light Communications (VLC) is emerging as viable means to overcome the crowded radio spectrum for highly-localized communications systems. With such an approach, luminaires can be adopted...
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Spot Pricing of Secondary Spectrum Access in Wireless Cellular Networks
March 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent deregulation initiatives enable cellular providers to sell excess spectrum for secondary usage. In this paper, the authors investigate the problem of optimal spot pricing of spectrum by a...
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Gait-Based User Classification Using Phone Sensors
July 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate whether smartphones can be used to distinguish different users based on their gait, the rhythmical body movements of human beings as they walk. To this end, they propose,...
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Inverse Compute-and-Forward: Extracting Messages From Simultaneously Transmitted Equations
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the transmission of independent messages over a Gaussian relay network with interfering links. Using the compute-and-forward framework, relays can efficiently decode equations...
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A Stackelberg Game for Pricing Uplink Power in Wide-Band Cognitive Radio Networks
September 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the problem of pricing uplink power in wide-band cognitive radio networks under the objective of revenue maximization for the service provider and while ensuring incentive...
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A Semi Markov-Based Analysis of Rate Adaptation Algorithms in Wireless LANs
March 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Rate adaptation plays a key role in determining the performance of wireless LANs. In this paper, the authors introduce a semi-Markovian framework to analyze the performance of two of the most...
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Data Dissemination in Wireless Broadcast Channels: Network Coding or Cooperation?
February 23, 2007, 12:00am PST
The significant breakthroughs in wireless technology over the past decade have enabled implementation of third generation cellular systems capable of offering services traditionally more...
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Secondary Pricing of Spectrum in Cellular CDMA Networks
February 23, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors study secondary pricing of spectrum in wireless cellular networks employing CDMA at the physical layer. They consider a primary license holder who aims to lease its spectrum within a...
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Near-Optimal Data Dissemination Policies for Multi-Channel, Single Radio Wireless Sensor Networks
January 31, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors analyze the performance limits of data dissemination with multi-channel, single radio sensors. They formulate the problem of minimizing the average delay of data dissemination as a...
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On-Line Pricing of Secondary Spectrum Access With Unknown Demand Function and Call Length Distribution
December 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors consider a wireless provider who caters to two classes of customers, namely primary and secondary users. Primary users have long term contracts while secondary users are admitted and...
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Reliable Wireless Broadcasting With Near-Zero Feedback
December 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors examine the problem of minimizing feedbacks in reliable wireless broadcasting, by pairing rateless coding with extreme value theory. Their key observation is that, in a broadcast...
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