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Space Division Multiple Access Scheme Based on Uniform Latin Squares for Wireless Sensor Networks
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
A Uniform Latin square of order k = m2 is an k x k square matrix that consists of k symbols from 0 to k-1 such that no symbol appears more than once in any row or in any column. This property is...
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Application Performance Modeling in a Virtualized Environment
November 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Performance models provide the ability to predict application performance for a given set of hardware resources and are used for capacity planning and resource management. Traditional performance...
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Real-Time Experiments of Interdomain Network Routing Attacks
August 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Authors of this paper use a real-time routing experiment platform to conduct attack experiments on a national-level interdomain routing system. The real-time routing experiment platform integrates...
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Toward Scalable Routing Experiments with Real-Time Network Simulation
March 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The ability to conduct accurate and realistic experiments is critical in furthering the research and development of network routing protocols. Existing framework for routing experiments is found...
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STORM: An Approach to Database Storage Management in Data Center Environments
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Database storage management at data centers is a manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. Such management involves regular movement of database objects across physical storage devices in a...
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3D Face Recognition in Biometrics
December 6, 2006, 12:00am PST
Biometrics is the area of bioengineering that pursues the characterization of individuals in a population (e.g., A Particular Person) by means of something that the individual is or produces....
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Challenges and Solutions for Handoff Issues in 4G Wireless Systems an Overview
July 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As the wireless communications technologies evolve dramatically, the recent research focus has shifted to the development of Furth-Generation (4G) mobile systems. Instead of developing a new...
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CODE: Cooperative Medium Access for Multirate Wireless Ad Hoc Network
March 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative communications can help combat fading and hence can significantly increase the capacity of wireless networks. Although various schemes have been proposed to leverage this capability,...
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RobustBPEL2: Transparent Autonomization in Business Processes Through Dynamic Proxies
August 15, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Web services paradigm is allowing applications to electronically interact with one another over the Internet. BPEL facilitates this interaction by providing a platform with which Web services can...
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Towards Self-Testing in Autonomic Computing Systems
September 2, 2006, 12:00am PDT
As researchers and members of the IT industry move towards a vision of computing systems that manage themselves, it is imperative to investigate ways to validate these systems to avoid the high...
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Explaining and Reformulating Authority Flow Queries
December 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic sensitive...
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A Distributed Multimedia Data Management Over the Grid
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes a distributed multimedia data management architecture, which can efficiently store and retrieve multimedia data across several nodes of a Grid environment. The main components...
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Virtual Environments: Easy Modeling of Interdependent Virtual Appliances in the Cloud
August 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the ideas for modeling groups of interdependent virtual machines in the cloud. The authors call these models virtual environments. This abstraction is built on top of virtual...
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Web Services Reliability Patterns
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Due to the widespread use of web services by enterprises, the need to ensure their reliability has become crucial. There are several standards that intend to govern how web services are designed...
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Anatomy of a Real-Time Intrusion Prevention System
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Host intrusion prevention systems for both servers and end-hosts must address the dual challenges of accuracy and performance. Researchers have mostly focused on addressing the former challenge,...
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A Self-Configuring Communication Virtual Machine
April 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today's communication-based applications are mostly crafted in a stovepipe development paradigm, which is inflexible to be used by various domain-specific applications and costly in the...
Provided by Florida International University
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TRAP/BPEL: A Framework for Dynamic Adaptation of Composite Services
January 16, 2007, 12:00am PST
TRAP/BPEL is a framework that adds autonomic behavior into existing BPEL processes automatically and transparently. This paper defines an autonomic BPEL process as a composite Web service that is...
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Voluntary Disclosure And Its Impact On Share Prices: Evidence From The UK Biotechnology Sector
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The earnings of high-R&D expenditure firms are therefore likely to convey less value relevant information to investors than those of less research-intensive firms. Using a sample of firms from the...
Provided by Florida International University
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Towards a Business Continuity Information Network for Rapid Disaster Recovery
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities such as the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 and...
Provided by Florida International University
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SAP: Seamless Authentication Protocol for Vertical Handoff in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
June 5, 2006, 12:00am PDT
802.11 standards support high data rates for a low price and thus provide an economical way for WLANs. On the other hand, 3G standards offer a much wider area of coverage that enables ubiquitous...
Provided by Florida International University
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Mobility-Assisted Location Management for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
January 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) are gaining importance for inter-vehicle communication, because they allow for the local communication between vehicles without any infrastructure, configuration...
Provided by Florida International University
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On Energy-Efficient and Low-Latency Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), many applications are delay-sensitive, such as target tracking and forest fire detection, which necessitate a design that can provide delay guarantee. On the...
Provided by Florida International University
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Performance and Equilibrium Analysis of Heterogeneous IEEE 802.11 Based WLANs
February 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a general model to study the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer performance and equilibrium of WLANs consisting of nodes with different MAC parameters (e.g., Backoff window...
Provided by Florida International University
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Two-Tier Load Balancing in OSPF Wireless Back-Hauls
January 31, 2007, 12:00am PST
High-speed wireless communication technology (e.g. WiMAX) makes it feasible and cost-effective to build wireless back-hauls for Internet access. Compared to wire counterparts, it is challenging to...
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On the Performance of a Hybrid Network Traffic Model
April 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study a hybrid network traffic model that combines a fluid-based analytical model using ordinary differential equations with the packet-oriented discrete-event simulation. The hybrid...
Provided by Florida International University
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SVEET! a Scalable Virtualized Evaluation Environment for TCP
October 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The ability to establish an objective comparison between high-performance TCP variants under diverse networking conditions and to obtain a quantitative assessment of their impact on the global...
Provided by Florida International University
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A Real-Time Network Simulation Infrastructure Based on OpenVPN
August 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors present an open and flexible software infrastructure that embeds physical hosts in a simulated network. In real-time network simulation, where real-world implementations of distributed...
Provided by Florida International University
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Real-Time Security Exercises on a Realistic Interdomain Routing Experiment Platform
March 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors use a realistic interdomain routing experiment platform to conduct real-time attack and defense exercises for training purposes. The interdomain routing experiment platform integrates...
Provided by Florida International University
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A User-Centric Network Communication Broker for Multimedia Collaborative Computing
October 12, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The development of collaborative multimedia applications today follows a vertical development approach, which is a major inhibitor that drives up the cost of development and slows down the pace of...
Provided by Florida International University
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BORG: Block-reORGanization for Self-Optimizing Storage Systems
January 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of BORG, a self-optimizing storage system that performs automatic block reorganization based on the observed I/O workload. BORG is...
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Exploring Biomedical Databases With BioNav
December 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
The last decade has been marked by unprecedented growth in both the production of biomedical data and the amount of published literature discussing it. The MEDLINE database, on which the PubMed...
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BioNav: Effective Navigation on Query Results of Biomedical Databases
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Search queries on biomedical databases like PubMed often return a large number of results, only a small subset of which is relevant to the user. Ranking and categorization, which can also be...
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Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases
June 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The system applies authority-based ranking to keyword search in databases modeled as labeled graphs. Three ranking factors are used: the relevance to the query, the specificity and the importance...
Provided by Florida International University
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Cost Effective Storage Using Extent Based Dynamic Tiering
December 29, 2010, 12:00am PST
Multi-tier systems that combine SSDs with SAS/FC and/or SATA disks mitigate the capital cost burden of SSDs, while benefiting from their superior I/O performance per unit cost and low power....
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I/O Deduplication: Utilizing Content Similarity to Improve I/O Performance
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Duplication of data in storage systems is becoming increasingly common. The authors introduce I/O Deduplication, a storage optimization that utilizes content similarity for improving I/O...
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EXCES: EXternal Caching in Energy Saving Storage Systems Luis
January 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
Power consumption within the disk-based storage sub system forms a substantial portion of the overall energy footprint in commodity systems. Researchers have proposed external caching on a...
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Network Topology Evolution Based on Traffic Distribution and Increase
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Following the traffic of a backbone increase near to the capacity of the network, the evolution of backbone topology takes place. In this paper, three main types of evolution methods: Link...
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Convergence Risk: The Problem With The New VIX Futures
September 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the issue of non-convergence of the VIX futures to the cash VIX, the associated expiration day effects, and their sources. Significant disparities are found between the value...
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Impact Of Restatement Of Earnings On Trading Metrics
January 17, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper uses a more recent sample of matched restating firms from 1997 to 2002 to investigate the microstructure impact on a broad spectrum of key trading metrics including return, volume, and...
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Lag Structure And Effectiveness Of Financial Instruments
January 17, 2007, 12:00am PST
Two monetary policy instruments, i.e., Romer and Romer's (2004) new measure of the federal funds rate and the conventional series of this rate, are taken to task to quantify and explore their...
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Energy Proportionality for Storage: Impact and Feasibility
September 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper highlights the growing importance of storage energy consumption in a typical data center, and asserts that storage energy research should drive towards a vision of energy...
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Generalized ERSS Tree Model: Revisiting Working Sets
August 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Accurately characterizing the resource usage of an application at various levels in the memory hierarchy has been a long-standing research problem. Existing characterization studies are either...
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Truly Non-Blocking Writes
May 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Writing data within user or operating system memory often encounters the classic read-before-write problem whereby the page written to must first be read from the backing store, effectively...
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Estimating Application Cache Requirement for Provisioning Caches in Virtualized Systems
May 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Miss Rate Curves (MRCs) are a fundamental concept in determining the impact of caches on an application's performance. In the authors' research, they use MRCs to provision caches for applications...
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Paravirtualization for Scientific Computing: Performance Analysis and Prediction
July 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Resource virtualization technologies have recently increased in popularity. The emergence of cloud computing, which requires provisioning isolated environments on shared resources, is one reason...
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On Enabling Real-Time Large-Scale Network Simulation Into the GENI Environment: The PrimoGENI Approach
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, many research efforts have focused on building experimentation platforms where structural changes to future Internet can be implemented and tested. GENI, instantiated by its...
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FIU Mobile 1.0 (Mobile)
August 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
FIU Mobile helps you stay connected to Florida International University from wherever you are, on or off campus.Use FIU Mobile to stay-in-the-loop with the latest campus news, watch videos from...
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Leisure Externalities: Implications For Growth And Welfare
July 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper develops a neoclassical growth model with leisure externalities. Ignoring positive (negative) leisure externalities leads to equilibrium consumption, labor and capital that are too high...
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Vulnerability Bounds and Leakage Resilience of Blinded Cryptography Under Timing Attacks
May 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors establish formal bounds for the number of min-entropy bits that can be extracted in a timing attack against a cryptosystem that is protected by blinding, the state-of-the art...
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An Interactive and Multimodal Software for Teaching Induction for Computer Science
April 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Induction is a key concept in the teaching and learning of computer science and yet, students have difficulties understanding it. Educators have tried for decades to present proofs by induction to...
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Network Intrusion Detection Design Using Feature Selection of Soft Computing Paradigms
January 4, 2011, 12:00am PST
The network traffic data provided for the design of intrusion detection always are large with ineffective information and enclose limited and ambiguous information about users' activities. The...
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Replicating Financial Market Dynamics With A Simple Self-Organized Critical Lattice Model
October 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors explore a simple lattice field model intended to describe statistical properties of high frequency financial markets. The model is relevant in the cross-disciplinary area of...
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Scalable Link-Based Personalization for Ranking in Entity-Relationship Graphs
June 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Authority flow techniques like PageRank and ObjectRank can provide personalized ranking of typed entity-relationship graphs. There are two main ways to personalize authority flow ranking:...
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White Papers
Lag Structure And Effectiveness Of Financial Instruments
January 17, 2007, 12:00am PST
Two monetary policy instruments, i.e., Romer and Romer's (2004) new measure of the federal funds rate and the conventional series of this rate, are taken to task to quantify and explore their...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
Impact Of Restatement Of Earnings On Trading Metrics
January 17, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper uses a more recent sample of matched restating firms from 1997 to 2002 to investigate the microstructure impact on a broad spectrum of key trading metrics including return, volume, and...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
Convergence Risk: The Problem With The New VIX Futures
September 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the issue of non-convergence of the VIX futures to the cash VIX, the associated expiration day effects, and their sources. Significant disparities are found between the value...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
Network Topology Evolution Based on Traffic Distribution and Increase
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Following the traffic of a backbone increase near to the capacity of the network, the evolution of backbone topology takes place. In this paper, three main types of evolution methods: Link...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
EXCES: EXternal Caching in Energy Saving Storage Systems Luis
January 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
Power consumption within the disk-based storage sub system forms a substantial portion of the overall energy footprint in commodity systems. Researchers have proposed external caching on a...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
I/O Deduplication: Utilizing Content Similarity to Improve I/O Performance
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Duplication of data in storage systems is becoming increasingly common. The authors introduce I/O Deduplication, a storage optimization that utilizes content similarity for improving I/O...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
Cost Effective Storage Using Extent Based Dynamic Tiering
December 29, 2010, 12:00am PST
Multi-tier systems that combine SSDs with SAS/FC and/or SATA disks mitigate the capital cost burden of SSDs, while benefiting from their superior I/O performance per unit cost and low power....
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases
June 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The system applies authority-based ranking to keyword search in databases modeled as labeled graphs. Three ranking factors are used: the relevance to the query, the specificity and the importance...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
BioNav: Effective Navigation on Query Results of Biomedical Databases
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Search queries on biomedical databases like PubMed often return a large number of results, only a small subset of which is relevant to the user. Ranking and categorization, which can also be...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
Exploring Biomedical Databases With BioNav
December 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
The last decade has been marked by unprecedented growth in both the production of biomedical data and the amount of published literature discussing it. The MEDLINE database, on which the PubMed...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
BORG: Block-reORGanization for Self-Optimizing Storage Systems
January 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of BORG, a self-optimizing storage system that performs automatic block reorganization based on the observed I/O workload. BORG is...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
A User-Centric Network Communication Broker for Multimedia Collaborative Computing
October 12, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The development of collaborative multimedia applications today follows a vertical development approach, which is a major inhibitor that drives up the cost of development and slows down the pace of...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
Real-Time Security Exercises on a Realistic Interdomain Routing Experiment Platform
March 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors use a realistic interdomain routing experiment platform to conduct real-time attack and defense exercises for training purposes. The interdomain routing experiment platform integrates...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
A Real-Time Network Simulation Infrastructure Based on OpenVPN
August 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors present an open and flexible software infrastructure that embeds physical hosts in a simulated network. In real-time network simulation, where real-world implementations of distributed...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
SVEET! a Scalable Virtualized Evaluation Environment for TCP
October 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The ability to establish an objective comparison between high-performance TCP variants under diverse networking conditions and to obtain a quantitative assessment of their impact on the global...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
On the Performance of a Hybrid Network Traffic Model
April 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study a hybrid network traffic model that combines a fluid-based analytical model using ordinary differential equations with the packet-oriented discrete-event simulation. The hybrid...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
Two-Tier Load Balancing in OSPF Wireless Back-Hauls
January 31, 2007, 12:00am PST
High-speed wireless communication technology (e.g. WiMAX) makes it feasible and cost-effective to build wireless back-hauls for Internet access. Compared to wire counterparts, it is challenging to...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
Performance and Equilibrium Analysis of Heterogeneous IEEE 802.11 Based WLANs
February 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a general model to study the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer performance and equilibrium of WLANs consisting of nodes with different MAC parameters (e.g., Backoff window...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
On Energy-Efficient and Low-Latency Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), many applications are delay-sensitive, such as target tracking and forest fire detection, which necessitate a design that can provide delay guarantee. On the...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
Mobility-Assisted Location Management for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
January 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) are gaining importance for inter-vehicle communication, because they allow for the local communication between vehicles without any infrastructure, configuration...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
SAP: Seamless Authentication Protocol for Vertical Handoff in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
June 5, 2006, 12:00am PDT
802.11 standards support high data rates for a low price and thus provide an economical way for WLANs. On the other hand, 3G standards offer a much wider area of coverage that enables ubiquitous...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
Towards a Business Continuity Information Network for Rapid Disaster Recovery
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities such as the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 and...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
Voluntary Disclosure And Its Impact On Share Prices: Evidence From The UK Biotechnology Sector
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The earnings of high-R&D expenditure firms are therefore likely to convey less value relevant information to investors than those of less research-intensive firms. Using a sample of firms from the...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
TRAP/BPEL: A Framework for Dynamic Adaptation of Composite Services
January 16, 2007, 12:00am PST
TRAP/BPEL is a framework that adds autonomic behavior into existing BPEL processes automatically and transparently. This paper defines an autonomic BPEL process as a composite Web service that is...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
A Self-Configuring Communication Virtual Machine
April 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today's communication-based applications are mostly crafted in a stovepipe development paradigm, which is inflexible to be used by various domain-specific applications and costly in the...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
Anatomy of a Real-Time Intrusion Prevention System
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Host intrusion prevention systems for both servers and end-hosts must address the dual challenges of accuracy and performance. Researchers have mostly focused on addressing the former challenge,...
Provided by Florida International University
-
White Papers
Web Services Reliability Patterns
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Due to the widespread use of web services by enterprises, the need to ensure their reliability has become crucial. There are several standards that intend to govern how web services are designed...
Provided by Florida International University
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