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Processing of Medical Signals (ECG) in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Combination of embedded systems and wireless technology provides a lot of opportunities for acquisition, processing and transmission of data. It is useful to apply these technology approaches for...
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Nozzle: A Defense Against Heap-Spraying Code Injection Attacks
November 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Heap spraying is a new security attack that significantly increases the exploitability of existing memory corruption errors in type-unsafe applications. With heap spraying, attackers leverage...
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Towards a Cloud Computing Research Agenda
April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The 2008 LADIS workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems brought together leaders from the commercial cloud computing community with researchers working on a variety of topics in distributed...
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The Data Acquisition System (DAQ) of the Flash Facility
January 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
Nowadays the photon science experiments and the machines providing these photon beams, produce enormous amounts of data. To capture the data from the photon science experiments and from the...
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The Network Structure of Exploration and Exploitation
March 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Whether as team members brainstorming or cultures experimenting with new technologies, problem solvers communicate and share ideas. This paper examines how the structure of communication networks...
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Building Collaboration Applications That Mix Web Services Hosted Content With P2P Protocols
April 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The most commonly deployed web service applications employ client-server communication patterns, with clients running remotely and services hosted in data centers. This paper makes the case for...
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Quality-of-Service Specific Information Retrieval for Densely Deployed Sensor Networks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
A new MAC protocol is proposed for the reachback operation in large scale, densely deployed sensor networks. Referred to as Quality-of-service specific Information REtrieval (QUIRE), the proposed...
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Maximizing the Spread of Cascades Using Network Design
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces a new optimization framework to maximize the expected spread of cascades in networks. The model allows a rich set of actions that directly manipulate cascade dynamics by...
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Fast Firewall Implementations for Software-Based Routers
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Routers must perform packet classification at high speeds to efficiently implement functions such as firewalls. The classification can be based on an arbitrary number of prefix arid range fields...
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Does Public Transit Use Enhance The Economic Efficiency Of Urban Areas?
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A variety of arguments are made in favor of public investments in mass transit. Some relate to its environmental advantages over auto use, and these have some scientific evidence supporting them....
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Why Firms Smooth Dividends: Empirical Evidence
October 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
While dividend smoothing is taken as an article of faith, little is known about the cross-sectional properties of smoothing policies. Why do some firms smooth more than others? The authors examine...
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Improving Enterprise Decision-Making: The Benefits Of Metric Commonality
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The objective of this research is to identify a new approach in managing, and making internal program-level decisions from, externally tracked performance metrics. Industry observations indicate...
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Seawall: Performance Isolation for Cloud Datacenter Networks
May 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
While today's virtual datacenters have hypervisor based mechanisms to partition compute resources between the tenants co-located on an end host, they provide little control over how tenants share...
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A History of the Virtual Synchrony Replication Model
March 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A "Cloud Computing" revolution is underway, supported by massive data centers that often contain thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of servers. In such systems, scalability is the mantra and...
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The Effect Of Advertising And Deceptive Advertising On Consumption: The Case Of Over-The-Counter Weight Loss Products
July 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. They study the market for over the-counter (OTC)...
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A Scalable Data Platform for a Large Number of Small Applications
January 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
As a growing number of websites open up their APIs to external application developers (e.g., Facebook, Yahoo! Widgets, Google Gadgets), these websites are facing an intriguing scalability problem:...
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Provisioning a Virtual Private Network: A Network Design Problem for Multicommodity Flow
July 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Consider a setting in which a group of nodes, situated in a large underlying network, wishes to reserve bandwidth on which to support communication. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are services...
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g-PRIME: A Free, Windows Based Data Acquisition and Event Analysis Software Package for Physiology in Classrooms and Research Labs
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper present g-PRIME, software based tool for physiology data acquisition, analysis, and stimulus generation in education and research. This software was developed in an undergraduate...
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XPaXS: Improved Data Acquisition and Real-Time Analysis at CHESS
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Scanning X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy (SFXM) capability at CHESS draws users from diverse fields, including Environmental Science, Soil Science, Anthropology and Native American Studies,...
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A Data-Acquisition Model for Learning and Cognitive Development and Its Implications for Autism
September 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A data-driven model of learning is proposed, where a network of nodes and links is constructed that represents what has been heard and observed. Autism is viewed as the consequence of a disorder...
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Expressing Security Properties Using Selective Interleaving Functions
August 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
McLean's notion of Selective Interleaving Functions (SIFs) is perhaps the best known attempt to construct a framework for expressing various security properties. This paper examines the expressive...
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A Security Standard for AMI Smart Meters
October 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There is a growing interest in 'Smart Grid' technologies in both industry and academic circles. Few attempts have been made to develop a written specification consummated with standards agreed...
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Synthesizing Transformations for Locality Enhancement of Imperfectly-Nested Loop Nests
November 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors present an approach for synthesizing transformations to enhance locality in imperfectly-nested loops. The key idea is to embed the iteration space of every statement in a loop nest...
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Towards Sensor Database Systems
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Sensor networks are being widely deployed for measurement, detection and surveillance applications. In these new applications, users issue long-running queries over a combination of stored data...
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Networking With Secrecy Constraints
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless Networks are susceptible to anonymous monitoring of transmissions by adversaries who can infer valuable information about data flows in the network. It is therefore necessary to design...
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WS-OBJECTS: Extending Service-Oriented Architecture With Hierarchical Composition of Client-Side Asynchronous Event-Processing Logic
April 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There is a growing need for a new type of WS/SOA standards that could facilitate hierarchical, object-oriented composition of client-side executable code. This is especially true for the sorts of...
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Executive Pay And Firm Performance: Methodological Considerations And Future Directions
February 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper is an investigation of the pay-for-performance link in executive compensation. In particular the authors document main issues in the pay-performance debate and explain practical issues...
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Employees' Choice Of Method Of Pay
February 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
Who chooses what type of pay? The costs and benefits of "Flexible" and "Cafeteria-style" benefit plans have been discussed for some time. Additionally, many papers have considered the potential...
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The Human Resource Economics Of Vernon Briggs
June 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the conception of Human Resource Economics (HRE) that shaped the career of Vernon M. Briggs Jr. It probes the history of economic thought to describe the intellectual roots of...
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Social Unionism In Western New York: The Case Of The Economic Development Group
July 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The academic literature on union-community engagement - labor activity often called social unionism - has grown steadily since about 1980, an expansion paralleling a similar evolution in union...
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Labor Retrenchment Laws And Their Effect On Wages And Employment: A Theoretical Investigation
March 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many countries have legislation which makes it costly for firms to dismiss or retrench workers. In the case of India, the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, requires firms that employ 50 or more...
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Complexity-Based Agile Enterprises: Putting Self- Organizing Emergence To Work
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Organizations competing in hypercompetitive marketplaces have two possible paths to potential success. They can attempt to transform traditional bureaucracies into more nimble, adaptable, and...
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Earnings Mobility In Times Of Growth And Decline: Argentina From 1996 To 2003
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, the economy of Argentina has experienced both rapid economic growth and severe economic decline. In this paper, the authors use a series of one-year-long panels to study who...
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Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role Of Expert Knowledge
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. The authors draw on a setting where there are well-defined...
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Changing An Unfavorable Employment Reputation: A Longitudinal Examination
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
High information recruitment practices (e.g., personal communication from a recruiter) from both single and multiple sources were more effective for changing unfavorable employment reputation...
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An Empirical Analysis Of Risk, Incentives, And The Delegation Of Worker Authority
June 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The notion of a negative relationship between risk and incentives is a central prediction of agency theory. A vast literature has failed to find consistent empirical support for this prediction,...
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Employee Attributions Of The "Why" Of HR Practices: Their Effects On Employee Attitudes And Behaviors, And Customer Satisfaction
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The construct of Human Resource (HR) Attributions is introduced. The authors argue that the attributions that employees make about the reasons why management adopts the HR practices that it does...
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Human Resource Practices And Organizational Commitment: A Deeper Examination
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper examines newer conceptualizations of HRM practices in the HR-Performance Relationship as well as newer conceptualizations of commitment. Juxtaposing these categories of HR practices and...
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Self-Replicating Objects for Multicore Platforms
April 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The paper introduces Self-Replicating Objects (SROs), a new concurrent programming abstraction. An SRO is implemented and used much like an ordinary .NET object and can expose arbitrary...
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Network Security and the Need to Consider Provider Coordination in Network Access Policy
August 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The policy debate over how to govern access to broadband networks has largely ignored the objective of network trustworthiness - a set of properties (Including security) that guarantee that a...
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Dynamic Clustering Protocol for Data Forwarding in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 15, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Energy being the very key concern area with sensor networks, so the main focus lies in developing a mechanism to increase the lifetime of a sensor network by energy balancing. To achieve energy...
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Implementation of DYMO Routing Protocol
May 1, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks communicate without any fixed infrastructure or ant centralized domain. All the nodes are free to move randomly within the network and share information dynamically. To...
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Towards a Simple Relationship to Estimate the Capacity of Static and Mobile Wireless Networks
June 6, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Extensive research has been done on studying the capacity of wireless multi-hop networks. These efforts have led to many sophisticated and customized analytical studies on the capacity of...
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Designing Run-Time Environments to Have Predefined Global Dynamics
May 1, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The stability and the predictability of a computer network algorithm's performance are as important as the main functional purpose of networking software. However, asserting or deriving such...
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CSMA Using Statistical Physics Toward Throughput and Utility Optimal CSMA
June 5, 2013, 12:00am PDT
In the recent past years, CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access), which resolves contentions over wireless networks in a fully distributed fashion, has gained a lot of attentions since it has been...
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Equivalence and Comparison of Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
June 10, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a general heterogeneous network in which, besides general propagation effects (shadowing and/or fading), individual base stations can have different emitting powers and be...
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Cell-Level Modeling of IEEE 802.11 WLANs
June 2, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a scalable cell-level analytical model for multi-cell infrastructure IEEE 802.11 WLANs under a so-called Pairwise Binary Dependence (PBD) condition. The PBD condition is a...
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Two Trivial Attacks on A5/1: A GSM Stream Cipher
April 18, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Stream ciphers play an important role in those applications where high throughput remains critical and resources are very restricted e.g. in Europe and North America, A5/1 is widely used stream...
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Easily Implemented Rate Compatible Reconciliation Protocol for Quantum Key Distribution
May 27, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Reconciliation is an important step to correct errors in Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). In QKD, after comparing basis, two legitimate parties possess two correlative keys which have some...
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Enhancing Information Dissemination in a Device to Device Communication Based Metapopulation using Human Mobility Trace and Beamforming
May 24, 2013, 12:00am PDT
In communication network based on device to device interactions, dissemination of the information has lately picked up lot of interest. In this paper, the authors would like to propose a mechanism...
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Dynamic Spectrum Refarming of GSM Spectrum for LTE Small Cells
May 14, 2013, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a novel solution called Dynamic Spectrum Refarming (DSR) for deploying LTE small cells using the same spectrum as existing GSM networks. The basic idea of DSR is...
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Cloud Computing Benefits for Educational Institutions
May 12, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Education today is becoming completely associated with the Information Technology on the content delivery, communication and collaboration. The need for servers, storage and software are highly...
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Intelligent Agent Based Semantic Web in Cloud Computing Environment
May 4, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Considering today's web scenario, there is a need of effective and meaningful search over the web which is provided by Semantic Web. Existing search engines are keyword based. They are vulnerable...
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Performance Analysis of Bio-Inspired Routing Protocols Based on Random Waypoint Mobility Model
November 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) is a non-centralised, multihop, wireless network that lacks a common infrastructure and hence it needs self-organisation. The biggest challenge in MANETs is to find...
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Optimal Distributed Scheduling in Wireless Networks Under SINR Interference Model
May 2, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Radio resource sharing mechanisms are key to ensuring good performance in wireless networks. In their seminal paper, Tassiulas and Ephremides introduced the Maximum Weighted Scheduling algorithm,...
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Proportional Fair MU-MIMO in 802.11 WLANs
May 20, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The next generation of 802.11 WLANs is expected to support Multi-User MIMO (MUMIMO) transmission, whereby parallel transmissions can be simultaneously made to multiple stations. This significantly...
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Using Channel Output Feedback to Increase Throughput in Hybrid-ARQ
April 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Hybrid-ARQ protocols have become common in many packet transmission systems due to their incorporation in various standards. Hybrid-ARQ combines the normal Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) method...
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An Ontology-Based System for Cloud Infrastructure Services' Discovery
December 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The Cloud infrastructure services landscape advances steadily leaving users in the agony of choice. As a result, Cloud service identification and discovery remains a hard problem due to different...
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Minimum Spanning Tree Based Routing Strategy for Homogeneous WSN
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is composed of sensor nodes spread over the field to sense the data. The sensed data must be gathered & transmitted to Base Station (BS) for end user queries. The...
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Face Recognition for Social Media With Mobile Cloud Computing
February 1, 2013, 12:00am PST
Social Networking has become today's lifestyle and anyone can easily receive information about everyone in the world. It is very useful if a personal identity can be obtained from the mobile...
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Cloud Algebra for Handling Unstructured Data in Cloud Database Management System
December 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The handling of unstructured data in database management system is very difficult. The managing unstructured data like image, video textual data etc. are not easy task in database system. In this...
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Private Cloud Initiatives Using Bioinformatics Resources and Applications Facility (BRAF)
December 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The bioinformatics research community has a demand of enormous compute resources to run bioinformatics tools. Next generation sequencing technologies have further increased the overall demand for...
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Cpassport - A Passport System Based on Cloud Computing and Near Field Communication
August 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Wireless communication has penetrated into all fields of technology, especially in mobility, where wireless transactions are gaining importance with improvements in standards like 3G and 4G. There...
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Privacy Preservation Algorithm Using Effective Data Lookup Organization for Storage Clouds
August 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In the era of cloud computing, many cloud service providers like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc are offering cloud storage as a service. The authors can migrate their data to the storage offered...
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A Comparative Study of the Secret Sharing Algorithms for Secure Data in the Cloud
August 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
With advances in the field of cloud computing many computing resources and/or services are being provided to the end user on a pay-as-you-use basis. Data outsourcing is a new paradigm in which a...
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Comparative Study of Hidden Node Problem and Solution Using Different Techniques and Protocols
March 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Hidden nodes in a wireless network refer to nodes that are out of range of other nodes or a collection of nodes. The authors will discuss a few problems introduced by the RTS/CTS mechanism of...
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Instrumentation for Exact Packet Timings in Networks
March 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors design and implement a novel class of highly precise network instrumentation, capable of the first-ever capture of exact packet timings of network traffic. Their instrumentation -...
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Running Smart Grid Control Software on Cloud Computing Architectures
February 25, 2011, 12:00am PST
There are pressing economic as well as environmental arguments for the overhaul of the current outdated power grid, and its replacement with a Smart Grid that integrates new kinds of green power...
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Application-Driven TCP Recovery and Non-Stop BGP
April 22, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Some network protocols tie application state to underlying TCP connections, leading to unacceptable service outages when an endpoint loses TCP state during fail-over or migration. For example, BGP...
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Toward a Reliable, Secure and Fault Tolerant Smart Grid State Estimation in the Cloud
January 24, 2013, 12:00am PST
The collection and prompt analysis of synchrophasor measurements is a key step towards enabling the future smart power grid, in which grid management applications would be deployed to monitor and...
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Security Threats Analysis in Bluetooth Enabled Mobile Devices
May 31, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Exponential growth of the volume of Bluetooth-enabled devices indicates that it has become a popular way of wireless interconnections for exchanging information. The main goal of this paper is to...
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An Approach to Secure Mobile Enterprise Architectures
December 10, 2012, 12:00am PST
Due to increased security awareness of enterprises for mobile applications operating with sensitive or personal data as well as extended regulations form legislative (the principle of...
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Towards a Networks-of-Networks Framework for Cyber Security
April 24, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Networks-of-Networks (NoN) is a graph-theoretic model of interdependent networks that have distinct dynamics at each network (layer). By adding special edges to represent relationships between...
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Secure End-to-End Communication with Optimal Throughput in Unreliable Networks
April 9, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The authors demonstrate the feasibility of end-to-end communication in highly unreliable networks. Modeling a network as a graph with vertices representing nodes and edges representing the links...
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Transferring Voice Using SMS Over GSM Network
December 24, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a methodology of transmitting voice in SMS (Short Message Service) over GSM network. Usually SMS contents are text based and limited to 140 bytes. It supports...
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Facilitating Machine to Machine (M2M) Communication Using GSM Network
February 21, 2013, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a method to facilitate M2M communication using existing GSM networks is proposed - as M2M devices primarily use SMS as their data bearer, the focus is on increasing the number of...
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Adaptive Interference Suppression for CDMA Systems using Interpolated FIR Filters with Adaptive Interpolators in Multipath Channels
January 21, 2013, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose an adaptive linear receiver structure based on interpolated Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters with adaptive interpolators for Direct Sequence Code Division...
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Blind Adaptive Algorithms for Decision Feedback DS-CDMA Receivers in Multipath Channels
January 21, 2013, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors examine blind adaptive and iterative Decision Feedback (DF) receivers for Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) systems in frequency selective...
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Adaptive Space-Time Decision Feedback Neural Detectors with Data Selection for High-Data Rate Users in DS-CDMA Systems
January 21, 2013, 12:00am PST
A space-time adaptive Decision Feedback (DF) receiver using Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) is proposed for joint equalization and interference suppression in Direct Sequence...
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Exclusion and Guard Zones in DS-CDMA Ad Hoc Networks
April 19, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The central issue in Direct-Sequence Code-Division Multiple-Access (DS-CDMA) ad hoc networks is the prevention of a near-far problem. This paper considers two types of guard zones that may be used...
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