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Task Dependency of User Perceived Utility in Autonomic VoIP Systems
December 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
The transmission of voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) network traffic is used in an increasing variety of applications and settings. Many of these applications involve communications where VoIP...
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OntoNet: Scalable Knowledge-Based Networking
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Recent years have seen a proliferation of work on the Semantic Web, an initiative to enable intelligent agents to reason about and utilize World Wide Web content and services. Concurrently, the...
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Performance Comparison and Analysis of Two QoS Schemes: SWAN and Diffserv
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper compares and analyzes the performance of two QoS schemes for MANETs: SWAN and DiffServ. The comparison is performed both qualitatively and quantitatively (by simulations). Authors also...
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Analysis and Comparison of Data Visualization Using Two Popular Tools: Many Eyes and Swivel
March 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes and compares visualization capabilities provided by two freely available popular social information visualization tools, Many Eyes and Swivel. Both tools are easily accessible...
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Use of Tabular Analysis Method to Construct UML Sequence Diagrams
June 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
A sequence diagram in UML is used to model interactions among objects that participate in a use case. Developing a sequence diagram is complex; the experience shows that novice developers have...
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Software Design - Position Paper: SOA on Wireless Networks
November 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
The Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) has become popular for implementing distributed computing applications. There are several benefits that SOA provides to these applications, such as...
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Resource Management in Volunteer Computing Grids
November 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
The success of Volunteer Computing (VC) grid applications depends greatly on the systems ability to effectively manage the resources available to it. The most popular middleware application,...
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Addressing Security in Service Oriented Architecture Based Systems Throughout the Entire Development Lifecycle
January 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Although many IT departments fall into a trap of thinking that firewalls are everything that is needed for security, awareness about security in SOA applications needs to be addressed. There are...
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Migration of Legacy Software to Service Oriented Architecture
November 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Legacy software is in use at a great number of organizations. Although organizations commonly get a great deal of value from their legacy systems eventually most legacy systems need to be...
Provided by Drexel University
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Application of SOA in Content Management Systems (CMS)
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
There exists a large genre of Content Management System in the domain of finance, insurance, and retail industries. In real world systems, data frequently comes from various sources including...
Provided by Drexel University
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Infrastructure Service Approach to Handling Security in Service-Oriented Architecture Business Applications
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Recently there has been a shift in distributed computing from middleware-oriented architectures to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). However, security is a crucial requirement for the serious...
Provided by Drexel University
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Power and Performance Management of Virtualized Computing Environments Via Lookahead Control
September 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a promising approach...
Provided by Drexel University
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Risk Management Of Precious Metals
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines volatility and correlation dynamics in price returns of gold, silver, platinum and palladium, and explores the corresponding risk management implications for market risk and...
Provided by Drexel University
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Page-Differential Logging: An Efficient and DBMS-independent Approach for Storing Data into Flash Memory
January 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
Flash memory is widely used as the secondary storage in lightweight computing devices due to its outstanding advantages over magnetic disks. Flash memory has many access characteristics different...
Provided by Drexel University
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A High-Throughput Cross-Layer Scheme for Distributed Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
April 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In wireless ad hoc networks, distributed nodes can collaboratively form an antenna array for long-distance communications to achieve high energy efficiency. In recent work, Ochiai, et al., have...
Provided by Drexel University
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Optimal Cooperative Relaying Schemes for Improving Wireless Physical Layer Security
January 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors consider a cooperative wireless network in the presence of one of more eavesdroppers, and exploit node cooperation for achieving PHYsical (PHY) layer based security. Two different...
Provided by Drexel University
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Transmission Capacity of Ad Hoc Networks With Spatial Diversity
August 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper derives the outage probability and transmission capacity of ad hoc wireless networks with nodes employing multiple antenna diversity techniques, for a general class of signal...
Provided by Drexel University
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A New Distributed Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Environments with Non-Uniform Path Loss and Multipath Propagation
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Each node in a wireless multi-hop network can adjust the power level at which it transmits and thus change the topology of the network to save energy by choosing the neighbors with which it...
Provided by Drexel University
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Cooperative Jamming for Wireless Physical Layer Security
July 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative jamming is an approach that has been recently proposed for improving physical layer based security for wireless networks in the presence of an eavesdropper. While the source transmits...
Provided by Drexel University
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Transmitter Optimization for Achieving Secrecy Capacity in Gaussian MIMO Wiretap Channels
September 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a Gaussian Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wiretap channel model, where there exists a transmitter, a legitimate receiver and an eavesdropper, each node equipped with...
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ALOHA With Collision Resolution(ALOHA-CR): Theory and Software Defined Radio Implementation
September 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A cross-layer scheme, namely ALOHA with Collision Resolution (ALOHA-CR), is proposed for high throughput wireless communications in a cellular scenario. Transmissions occur in a time-slotted...
Provided by Drexel University
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On Improving the Representation of a Region Achieved by a Sensor Network
March 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers the class of applications of sensor networks in which each sensor node makes measurements, such as temperature or humidity, at the precise location of the node. Such...
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Drop-Down Democracy: Internet Portal Design Influences Voters' Search Strategies
September 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors report how different interfaces for searching the internet changed the strategies and information opportunities of voters as they searched for political information. A...
Provided by Drexel University
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How Much Of A Haircut? Options-Based Structural Modeling Of Defaulted Bond Recovery Rates
October 6, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The present paper characterizes the problem of estimating recoveries on defaulted debt in a real options optimal stopping framework that takes account of put-call parity conditions embedded within...
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The Information Content Of Underwriter Compensation: An Examination Of The Impact Of NASD Compensation Guidance On The Market For IPOs
January 17, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors examine NASD compensation guidelines for underwriter compensation and their impact on the market for Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). While underwriters are able to charge less than...
Provided by Drexel University
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Reasons For Financing R&D Using The SWORD Structure
September 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Several companies in the science and technology-based industries used the SWORD structure to finance part of their R&D programs. Yet, there is no clear rational or evidence that this structure is...
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Within And Across Country Inequality In A Model Of Trade And Endogenous Growth
May 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the dynamics of income inequality, both within and across countries. In an endogenous growth model with North-South trade, the dynamics of income inequality depend on the...
Provided by Drexel University
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Financing Decisions And Discretionary Accruals: Managerial Manipulation Or Managerial Overoptimism
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors examine whether discretionary accruals of firms obtaining substantial external financing can be explained by managerial manipulation or managerial overoptimism. Consistent with Teoh,...
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Transmission Of Monetary Policy Via Domestic And Foreign Banks In Emerging Economies: Evidence From Bank-Level Data
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines empirically the existence of a bank lending channel for the transmission of monetary policy in emerging markets, by comparing responses of domestic and foreign banks to host...
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SDC Testbed: Software Defined Communications Testbed for Wireless Radio and Optical Networking
January 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper describes the development of a new Software Defined Communications (SDC) testbed architecture. SDC aims to generalize the area of software defined radio to include propagation media not...
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Empirical Analysis Of Herding Behavior In Global Markets: Evidence From Industry Stock Returns
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper examines investors' herding behavior in an international setting. Using different measures of the cross-sectional dispersions of industry stock returns, the authors find supportive...
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Coding Perspectives for Collaborative Estimation Over Networks
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A collaborative distributed estimation problem over a communication constrained network is considered from an information theory perspective. A suitable architecture for the codes for this...
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Distributed Estimation of Channel Gains in Sensor Networks
November 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
Channel estimation algorithms are proposed for the initialization phase of a wireless sensor network, during which the nodes are still unaware of their neighbors or channel qualities. Both...
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Belief Propagation Distributed Estimation in Sensor Networks: An Optimized Energy Accuracy Tradeoff
January 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
The estimation error performance of Gaussian belief propagation based distributed estimation in a large sensor network employing random sleep strategies is explicitly evaluated for a simple model...
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A Concatenated Network Coding Scheme for Multimedia Transmission
November 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors discuss a coding technique for transmitting temporally ordered and/or successive refinements encoded multimedia data (such as MPEG video) over a multi-cast network using recently...
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Coding Perspectives for Collaborative Distributed Estimation Over Networks
December 30, 2009, 12:00am PST
A collaborative distributed estimation problem over a communication constrained network is considered from an information theory perspective. It is shown that the distributed estimation problem is...
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Transmission Capacity of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks With Channel Variations
April 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors' earlier work introduced transmission capacity as the maximum spatial density of concurrent transmissions in an ad hoc network subject to a QoS constraint on the outage probability....
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Software
DrexelOne Mobile 1.1 (Mobile)
November 30, 2011, 12:00am PST
DrexelOne Mobile is the portal for students, faculty, and staff of Drexel University to access personal information, such as their class schedules, upcoming course assignments (from Bb Vista), the...
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The Ethernet Speaker System
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
If one wishes to distribute audio in a large room, building, or even a campus, one needs multiple speakers. These speakers must be jointly managed and synchronized. The Ethernet Speaker (ES)...
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The Bandwidth Exchange Architecture
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
New applications for the Internet such as video on demand, grid computing etc. depend on the availability of high bandwidth connections with acceptable Quality of Service (QoS). There appears to...
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Academy@200 1.0 (iOS)
May 18, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The Academy at 200: The Nature of Discovery is a yearlong exhibition created in celebration of the Bicentennial of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. This app supplements the...
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A Tutorial on Transmission Capacity
August 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper unifies a number of recent contributions that have collectively developed a metric for decentralized wireless network analysis known as transmission capacity. Although it is notoriously...
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Longest Edge Routing on the Spatial Aloha Graph
September 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Multihop Spatial Reuse Aloha (MSR-Aloha) protocol was recently introduced by Baccelli et al., where each transmitter selects the receiver among its feasible next hops that maximizes the...
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Reisman Diagnostic Creativity Assessment RDCA Lite 1.2 (Mobile)
January 27, 2011, 12:00am PST
How do the following statements describe your perception of yourself?I regularly come up with novel uses for things.I engage in activities that are personally satisfying.I don't stop listening...
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Detecting Software Modularity Violations
September 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents Clio, an approach that detects modularity violations, which can cause software defects, modularity decay, or expensive refactorings. Clio computes the discrepancies between how...
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From Retrospect to Prospect: Assessing Modularity and Stability From Software Architecture
August 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Architecture-level decisions, directly influenced by environmental factors, are crucial to preserve modularity and stability throughout software development life-cycle. Tradeoffs of modularization...
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Degree-Sequenced Matching Algorithms for Input-Queued Switches
June 22, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a class of algorithms for scheduling packets in input-queued switches. As opposed to previously known algorithms that focus only on achieving high throughput, these algorithms...
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DrexelOne Mobile 1.1 (Mobile)
November 30, 2011, 12:00am PST
DrexelOne Mobile is the portal for students, faculty, and staff of Drexel University to access personal information, such as their class schedules, upcoming course assignments (from Bb Vista), the...
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Drexel University U.S. Constitution 1.1 (Mobile)
September 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Drexel University U.S. Constitution App is targeted for use by incoming freshman to the University but is open for anyone to use. Through this new electronic initiative created by the Office...
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DrexelOne 2.1 (Mobile)
January 3, 2011, 12:00am PST
DrexelOne Mobile provides people at Drexel University with access to personal academic, financial, and career information. Public functions let everyone learn more about what's happening at...
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Transmission Capacity of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks With Channel Variations
April 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors' earlier work introduced transmission capacity as the maximum spatial density of concurrent transmissions in an ad hoc network subject to a QoS constraint on the outage probability....
Provided by Drexel University
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White Papers
Coding Perspectives for Collaborative Distributed Estimation Over Networks
December 30, 2009, 12:00am PST
A collaborative distributed estimation problem over a communication constrained network is considered from an information theory perspective. It is shown that the distributed estimation problem is...
Provided by Drexel University
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White Papers
A Concatenated Network Coding Scheme for Multimedia Transmission
November 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors discuss a coding technique for transmitting temporally ordered and/or successive refinements encoded multimedia data (such as MPEG video) over a multi-cast network using recently...
Provided by Drexel University
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White Papers
Belief Propagation Distributed Estimation in Sensor Networks: An Optimized Energy Accuracy Tradeoff
January 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
The estimation error performance of Gaussian belief propagation based distributed estimation in a large sensor network employing random sleep strategies is explicitly evaluated for a simple model...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Distributed Estimation of Channel Gains in Sensor Networks
November 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
Channel estimation algorithms are proposed for the initialization phase of a wireless sensor network, during which the nodes are still unaware of their neighbors or channel qualities. Both...
Provided by Drexel University
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White Papers
Coding Perspectives for Collaborative Estimation Over Networks
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A collaborative distributed estimation problem over a communication constrained network is considered from an information theory perspective. A suitable architecture for the codes for this...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Empirical Analysis Of Herding Behavior In Global Markets: Evidence From Industry Stock Returns
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper examines investors' herding behavior in an international setting. Using different measures of the cross-sectional dispersions of industry stock returns, the authors find supportive...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
SDC Testbed: Software Defined Communications Testbed for Wireless Radio and Optical Networking
January 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper describes the development of a new Software Defined Communications (SDC) testbed architecture. SDC aims to generalize the area of software defined radio to include propagation media not...
Provided by Drexel University
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White Papers
Transmission Of Monetary Policy Via Domestic And Foreign Banks In Emerging Economies: Evidence From Bank-Level Data
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines empirically the existence of a bank lending channel for the transmission of monetary policy in emerging markets, by comparing responses of domestic and foreign banks to host...
Provided by Drexel University
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White Papers
Financing Decisions And Discretionary Accruals: Managerial Manipulation Or Managerial Overoptimism
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors examine whether discretionary accruals of firms obtaining substantial external financing can be explained by managerial manipulation or managerial overoptimism. Consistent with Teoh,...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Within And Across Country Inequality In A Model Of Trade And Endogenous Growth
May 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the dynamics of income inequality, both within and across countries. In an endogenous growth model with North-South trade, the dynamics of income inequality depend on the...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Reasons For Financing R&D Using The SWORD Structure
September 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Several companies in the science and technology-based industries used the SWORD structure to finance part of their R&D programs. Yet, there is no clear rational or evidence that this structure is...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
The Information Content Of Underwriter Compensation: An Examination Of The Impact Of NASD Compensation Guidance On The Market For IPOs
January 17, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors examine NASD compensation guidelines for underwriter compensation and their impact on the market for Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). While underwriters are able to charge less than...
Provided by Drexel University
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White Papers
How Much Of A Haircut? Options-Based Structural Modeling Of Defaulted Bond Recovery Rates
October 6, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The present paper characterizes the problem of estimating recoveries on defaulted debt in a real options optimal stopping framework that takes account of put-call parity conditions embedded within...
Provided by Drexel University
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White Papers
Drop-Down Democracy: Internet Portal Design Influences Voters' Search Strategies
September 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors report how different interfaces for searching the internet changed the strategies and information opportunities of voters as they searched for political information. A...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
On Improving the Representation of a Region Achieved by a Sensor Network
March 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers the class of applications of sensor networks in which each sensor node makes measurements, such as temperature or humidity, at the precise location of the node. Such...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
ALOHA With Collision Resolution(ALOHA-CR): Theory and Software Defined Radio Implementation
September 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A cross-layer scheme, namely ALOHA with Collision Resolution (ALOHA-CR), is proposed for high throughput wireless communications in a cellular scenario. Transmissions occur in a time-slotted...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Transmitter Optimization for Achieving Secrecy Capacity in Gaussian MIMO Wiretap Channels
September 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a Gaussian Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wiretap channel model, where there exists a transmitter, a legitimate receiver and an eavesdropper, each node equipped with...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Cooperative Jamming for Wireless Physical Layer Security
July 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative jamming is an approach that has been recently proposed for improving physical layer based security for wireless networks in the presence of an eavesdropper. While the source transmits...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
A New Distributed Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Environments with Non-Uniform Path Loss and Multipath Propagation
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Each node in a wireless multi-hop network can adjust the power level at which it transmits and thus change the topology of the network to save energy by choosing the neighbors with which it...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Transmission Capacity of Ad Hoc Networks With Spatial Diversity
August 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper derives the outage probability and transmission capacity of ad hoc wireless networks with nodes employing multiple antenna diversity techniques, for a general class of signal...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Optimal Cooperative Relaying Schemes for Improving Wireless Physical Layer Security
January 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors consider a cooperative wireless network in the presence of one of more eavesdroppers, and exploit node cooperation for achieving PHYsical (PHY) layer based security. Two different...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
A High-Throughput Cross-Layer Scheme for Distributed Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
April 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In wireless ad hoc networks, distributed nodes can collaboratively form an antenna array for long-distance communications to achieve high energy efficiency. In recent work, Ochiai, et al., have...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Page-Differential Logging: An Efficient and DBMS-independent Approach for Storing Data into Flash Memory
January 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
Flash memory is widely used as the secondary storage in lightweight computing devices due to its outstanding advantages over magnetic disks. Flash memory has many access characteristics different...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Risk Management Of Precious Metals
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines volatility and correlation dynamics in price returns of gold, silver, platinum and palladium, and explores the corresponding risk management implications for market risk and...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Power and Performance Management of Virtualized Computing Environments Via Lookahead Control
September 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a promising approach...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Infrastructure Service Approach to Handling Security in Service-Oriented Architecture Business Applications
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Recently there has been a shift in distributed computing from middleware-oriented architectures to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). However, security is a crucial requirement for the serious...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Application of SOA in Content Management Systems (CMS)
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
There exists a large genre of Content Management System in the domain of finance, insurance, and retail industries. In real world systems, data frequently comes from various sources including...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Migration of Legacy Software to Service Oriented Architecture
November 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Legacy software is in use at a great number of organizations. Although organizations commonly get a great deal of value from their legacy systems eventually most legacy systems need to be...
Provided by Drexel University
-
White Papers
Addressing Security in Service Oriented Architecture Based Systems Throughout the Entire Development Lifecycle
January 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Although many IT departments fall into a trap of thinking that firewalls are everything that is needed for security, awareness about security in SOA applications needs to be addressed. There are...
Provided by Drexel University
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