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Performance Metrics for Consolidated Servers
April 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As one enters the multi-core era where contemporary processors integrate multiple processor cores on a single chip and Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT), or running multiple hardware threads on a...
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Spectral Interference Study of WiFi on Wireless Sensor Networks
September 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The interference of WiFi on various wireless networks such as Bluetooth, WiFi, wireless USB, cordless phone and microwave ovens that share the same 2.4GHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM)...
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Java Performance Evaluation Through Rigorous Replay Compilation
August 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A managed runtime environment, such as the Java virtual machine, is non-trivial to benchmark. Java performance is affected in various complex ways by the application and its input, as well as by...
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FPGA-Aware Garbage Collection in Java
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
During codesign of a system, one still runs into the impedance mismatch between the software and hardware worlds. This paper identies the different levels of abstraction of hardware and software...
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Statistically Rigorous Java Performance Evaluation
September 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Java performance is far from being trivial to benchmark because it is affected by various factors such as the Java application, its input, the virtual machine, the garbage collector, the heap...
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Starting An R&D Project Under Uncertainty
October 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors model a two-stage R&D project with an abandonment option. Two types of uncertainty influence the decision to start R&D. Demand uncertainty is modeled as a lottery between a...
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Optimal Monetary Policy And Firm Entry
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper characterizes optimal short-run monetary policy in an economy with monopolistic competition, endogenous firm entry, a cash-in-advance constraint and preset wages. Firms must make...
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Simulating Liquidity In Value And Supply Chains
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an ontology-based set of Petri-nets for simulating the effect of business process changes on an organization's liquidity, and demonstrates that certain types of business...
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Business Cycle Evidence On Firm Entry
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Business cycle models with sticky prices and endogenous firm entry make novel predictions on the transmission of shocks through the extensive margin of investment. The author tests some of these...
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Implementation Dynamics Of Performance Management In Higher Education
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the issue of performance management in a higher education context, with particular attention to the extent to which employee performance management systems have been...
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Context Based Selection of User Generated Content
March 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Nowadays, there is a lot of interest in context aware services, especially those services taking user interests into account. An important example is the automated filtering of the overwhelming...
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An Open Peer-to-Peer Based Platform for Scalable Multimedia Communication
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes an open platform for multimedia applications on a peer-to-peer network. A Voice-over-IP application was developed on it as proof-of-concept. The application allows users to...
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Enabling Platform for Mobile Content Generation Based on 2D Barcodes
May 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As context-aware (and more specifically location-aware) computing enters the scene of Internet computing, different location determination techniques are widely accepted. Although accuracy of some...
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On-Line Estimation of the QoE of Progressive Download Services in Multimedia Access Networks
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Current broadband access networks are evolving towards an infrastructure for multimedia services such as BroadcastTV, Voice over IP and Video on Demand. As these multimedia services have high...
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Synchronization in Wireless Communications Heidi
March 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The last decade has witnessed an immense increase of wireless communications services in order to keep pace with the ever increasing demand for higher data rates combined with higher mobility. To...
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Impact Of IPSAS On Reforming Governmental Financial Information Systems: A Comparative Study
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The diversity in reformed governmental financial information systems created a need for harmonized international accounting standards, resulting in the elaboration of the IPSAS (International...
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Separating Financial From Commercial Customer Churn: A Modeling Step Towards Resolving The Conflict Between The Sales And Credit Department
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In subscription services, customers who leave the company can be divided into two groups: customers who do not renew their fixed-term contract at the end of that contract, and others who just stop...
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Alternative Financing Mechanisms For Multifunctional Agriculture In 'Public Open Space'
August 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In spite of a Flemish planning policy that strived the last decennia at conserving the city (or urban areas) and countryside both as functionally and morphologically separable entities and as...
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On the Redundant Carrier Distribution for UW-OFDM
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Unique Word (UW) OFDM is a new multicarrier technique that was first introduced in. In this technique, the guard interval is a part of the Inverse FFT (IFFT) output, and is filled with known...
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Pilot-Based ML Estimation in Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Networks
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative communication is a promising technique that achieves spatial diversity without requiring multi-antenna receivers. In this paper, the authors consider the cooperative...
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An Adaptive Approach to Optimize Thin Client Protocols
January 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
In a thin client computing environment, applications run on server farms and are accessed through thin client protocols like Remote Frame Buffer (RFB), or Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Although...
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Cost Comparison of Different Translucent Optical Network Architectures
March 3, 2010, 12:00am PST
Ever-increasing bandwidth demands and higher flexibility are the main challenges for the next generation optical core networks. A new trend in order to address these challenges is to consider the...
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DYAMAND: DYnamic, Adaptive MAnagement of Networks and Devices
July 31, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Consumer devices increasingly are "Smart" and hence offer services that can interwork with and/or be controlled by others. However, the full exploitation of the inherent opportunities this offers,...
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Automatic Fine-Grained Area Detection for Thin Client Systems
February 11, 2012, 12:00am PST
The widespread availability of cloud infrastructures is fueling new interest in the thin client computing paradigm. However, current thin client protocols are not designed to handle new content...
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Isolation and Resource Efficiency of Virtual Optical Networks
October 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization of optical networking infrastructure is considered a fundamental technology in the future Internet. A key principle is that virtual networks are isolated to coexist on a shared...
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Resilient Network Dimensioning for Optical Grid/clouds Using Relocation
January 18, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors address the problem of dimensioning infrastructure, comprising both network and server resources, for large-scale decentralized distributed systems such as grids or...
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Distributed Multi-Agent Algorithm for Residential Energy Management in Smart Grids
January 16, 2012, 12:00am PST
Distributed renewable power generators, such as solar cells and wind turbines are difficult to predict, making the demand-supply problem more complex than in the traditional energy production...
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Design and Evaluation of an Architecture for Future Smart Grid Service Provisioning
December 27, 2011, 12:00am PST
The current Internet evolves to a true Internet of Things where a plethora of heterogeneous devices are connected, communicate with each other and allow the deployment of new intelligent services,...
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Platform for Real-Time Subjective Assessment of Interactive Multimedia Applications
December 3, 2012, 12:00am PST
With the advent of cloud computing and remote execution of interactive applications, there is a need for evaluating the Quality of Experience (QoE) and the influence on this QoE of network...
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Improving Energy Efficiency in Optical Cloud Networks by Exploiting Anycast Routing
October 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Exploiting anycast routing significantly reduces optical network and server energy usage. In this paper, the authors present a case study showing that intelligently selecting destinations and...
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Calculating the Minimum Bounds of Energy Consumption for Cloud Networks
May 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper is aiming at facilitating the energy-efficient operation of an integrated optical network and IT infrastructure. In this paper, the authors propose an energy-efficient routing algorithm...
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Integrated Simulation of Power and Communication Networks for Smart Grid Applications
April 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Innovative architectures, control mechanisms and network technologies are being proposed to realize the future smart grid. To assess their impact and effectiveness, simulation is key. Simulation...
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Evaluation of Multiple Design Options for Smart Charging Algorithms
February 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors evaluate the impact of limitations that may exist in actual implementations of plug-in electrical vehicle chargers (e.g. no controllable charging current) on smart charging algorithms....
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Intelligent Distributed Multimedia Collection: Content Aggregation and Integration
July 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
People's multimedia content is spread around their home network and content services on the Internet, such as YouTube, Flickr, Facebook. In this paper, the authors present a system that aggregates...
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On the Impact of Relocation on Network Dimensions in Resilient Optical Grids
October 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Optical networks, with their high bandwidths and low latencies, are excellent to support Grid applications, esp. those arising in so-called eScience applications. In this paper, the authors...
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Column Generation for Dimensioning Resilient Optical Grid Networks With Relocation
March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Now-a-days, the Quality of Service (QoS) in Optical Grids has become a key issue. An important QoS factor is the resiliency, namely the ability to survive from certain network failures. Although...
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Bandwidth Reservations in Home Networks: Performance Assessment of UPnP QoS V3
April 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Service providers are facing the challenge of assuring their users benefit from high quality services, which requires provisioning Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In this paper, the authors...
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Mean Field Calculation for Optical Grid Dimensioning
December 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
For traditional optical network dimensioning, a plethora of algorithms exists to design the amount of network resources required to accommodate a given amount of traffic, expressed as a (source...
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Integrating Personal Media and Digital TV With QoS Guarantees Using Virtualized Set-Top Boxes: Architecture and Performance Measurements
April 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Now-a-days, users consume a lot of functionality in their home coming from a service provider located in the Internet. While the home network is typically shielded off as much as possible from the...
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Exploiting Relocation to Reduce Network Dimensions of Resilient Optical Grids
August 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Optical Grids are widely deployed to solve complex problems the authors are facing today. An important aspect of the supporting network is resiliency i.e. the ability to overcome network failures....
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Design and Configuration of PCN Based Admission Control in Multimedia Aggregation Networks
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
DSL aggregation networks are evolving to the standard platform for the delivery of multimedia services such as television and network based personal video recording. These multimedia services...
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Dimensioning of Combined OBS/OCS Networks
June 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
To cope with ever-increasing traffic demands in transport networks, all-optical switching is currently perceived as a potential solution to remove bottlenecks caused by optoelectronic conversions....
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Framework for Ubiquitous Discovery and Access to Home Services
July 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
To relieve the end user of the configuration burden that arises when new devices are installed in the (home) network, Service Discovery Protocols (SDP) have been devised. These enable automatic...
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Design of a Context Aware Multimedia Management System for Home Environments
September 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present the design, implementation and performance analysis of a multimedia management system for home environments. It enables comprehensive access and control of media that is...
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Trust as Differentiator for Value-Adding Home Service Providers
July 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The openness of OSGi home service delivery platforms enables a service provider to deploy new services which aggregate services from other providers. Without security measures, each service...
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Deflection Routing in Anycast-Based OBS Grids
July 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Deflection routing is a much-studied contention resolution technique in the context of Optical Burst/Packet Switching networks, as it promises to improve burst blocking performance and may reduce...
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Exploiting Relocation to Reduce Network Dimensions of Resilient Optical Grids
August 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Optical Grids are widely deployed to solve complex problems the authors are facing today. An important aspect of the supporting network is resiliency i.e. the ability to overcome network failures....
Provided by Ghent University
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Integrating Personal Media and Digital TV With QoS Guarantees Using Virtualized Set-Top Boxes: Architecture and Performance Measurements
April 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Now-a-days, users consume a lot of functionality in their home coming from a service provider located in the Internet. While the home network is typically shielded off as much as possible from the...
Provided by Ghent University
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Mean Field Calculation for Optical Grid Dimensioning
December 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
For traditional optical network dimensioning, a plethora of algorithms exists to design the amount of network resources required to accommodate a given amount of traffic, expressed as a (source...
Provided by Ghent University
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Bandwidth Reservations in Home Networks: Performance Assessment of UPnP QoS V3
April 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Service providers are facing the challenge of assuring their users benefit from high quality services, which requires provisioning Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by Ghent University
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Column Generation for Dimensioning Resilient Optical Grid Networks With Relocation
March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Now-a-days, the Quality of Service (QoS) in Optical Grids has become a key issue. An important QoS factor is the resiliency, namely the ability to survive from certain network failures. Although...
Provided by Ghent University
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On the Impact of Relocation on Network Dimensions in Resilient Optical Grids
October 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Optical networks, with their high bandwidths and low latencies, are excellent to support Grid applications, esp. those arising in so-called eScience applications. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
Intelligent Distributed Multimedia Collection: Content Aggregation and Integration
July 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
People's multimedia content is spread around their home network and content services on the Internet, such as YouTube, Flickr, Facebook. In this paper, the authors present a system that aggregates...
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
Evaluation of Multiple Design Options for Smart Charging Algorithms
February 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors evaluate the impact of limitations that may exist in actual implementations of plug-in electrical vehicle chargers (e.g. no controllable charging current) on smart charging algorithms....
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
Integrated Simulation of Power and Communication Networks for Smart Grid Applications
April 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Innovative architectures, control mechanisms and network technologies are being proposed to realize the future smart grid. To assess their impact and effectiveness, simulation is key. Simulation...
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
Calculating the Minimum Bounds of Energy Consumption for Cloud Networks
May 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper is aiming at facilitating the energy-efficient operation of an integrated optical network and IT infrastructure. In this paper, the authors propose an energy-efficient routing algorithm...
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
Improving Energy Efficiency in Optical Cloud Networks by Exploiting Anycast Routing
October 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Exploiting anycast routing significantly reduces optical network and server energy usage. In this paper, the authors present a case study showing that intelligently selecting destinations and...
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
Platform for Real-Time Subjective Assessment of Interactive Multimedia Applications
December 3, 2012, 12:00am PST
With the advent of cloud computing and remote execution of interactive applications, there is a need for evaluating the Quality of Experience (QoE) and the influence on this QoE of network...
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
Design and Evaluation of an Architecture for Future Smart Grid Service Provisioning
December 27, 2011, 12:00am PST
The current Internet evolves to a true Internet of Things where a plethora of heterogeneous devices are connected, communicate with each other and allow the deployment of new intelligent services,...
Provided by Ghent University
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Distributed Multi-Agent Algorithm for Residential Energy Management in Smart Grids
January 16, 2012, 12:00am PST
Distributed renewable power generators, such as solar cells and wind turbines are difficult to predict, making the demand-supply problem more complex than in the traditional energy production...
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
Resilient Network Dimensioning for Optical Grid/clouds Using Relocation
January 18, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors address the problem of dimensioning infrastructure, comprising both network and server resources, for large-scale decentralized distributed systems such as grids or...
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
Isolation and Resource Efficiency of Virtual Optical Networks
October 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization of optical networking infrastructure is considered a fundamental technology in the future Internet. A key principle is that virtual networks are isolated to coexist on a shared...
Provided by Ghent University
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Automatic Fine-Grained Area Detection for Thin Client Systems
February 11, 2012, 12:00am PST
The widespread availability of cloud infrastructures is fueling new interest in the thin client computing paradigm. However, current thin client protocols are not designed to handle new content...
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
DYAMAND: DYnamic, Adaptive MAnagement of Networks and Devices
July 31, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Consumer devices increasingly are "Smart" and hence offer services that can interwork with and/or be controlled by others. However, the full exploitation of the inherent opportunities this offers,...
Provided by Ghent University
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An Adaptive Approach to Optimize Thin Client Protocols
January 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
In a thin client computing environment, applications run on server farms and are accessed through thin client protocols like Remote Frame Buffer (RFB), or Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Although...
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
Pilot-Based ML Estimation in Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Networks
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative communication is a promising technique that achieves spatial diversity without requiring multi-antenna receivers. In this paper, the authors consider the cooperative...
Provided by Ghent University
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Whitepapers
On the Redundant Carrier Distribution for UW-OFDM
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Unique Word (UW) OFDM is a new multicarrier technique that was first introduced in. In this technique, the guard interval is a part of the Inverse FFT (IFFT) output, and is filled with known...
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Wearable Aperture-Coupled Shorted Solar Patch Antenna for Remote Tracking and Monitoring Applications
May 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the design and characterization of a compact wearable aperture-coupled shorted patch antenna combined with flexible solar cells covering the 902-928 MHz ISM band. The antenna...
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An Algorithm for Direct Identification of Passive Transfer Matrices With Positive Real Fractions Via Convex Programming
July 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The paper presents a new algorithm for the identification of a positive real rational transfer matrix of a multi-input-multi-output system from frequency domain data samples. It is based on the...
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Efficient Runtime Service Discovery and Consumption With Hyperlinked RESTdesc
September 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Hyperlinks and forms let humans navigate with ease through websites they have never seen before. In contrast, automated agents can only perform pre-programmed actions on Web services, reducing...
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Control Plane Issues in Multilayer Traffic Engineering
October 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Multilayer traffic engineering utilizes functionality in multiple network layers to optimize network performance and resource usage. For IP-over-optical networks in particular, automatic optical...
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Optical Networks: How Much Power Do They Consume and How Can We Optimize This?
June 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Both bandwidth demand and energy consumption of ICT and communication networks is increasing and optical networks are regarded to provide high bandwidth solutions while enabling more energy...
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Network Virtualization and Programmability
December 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors present network virtualization (building virtual or logical networks over a physical infrastructure) and network programmability (allowing the network operator to at least control the...
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A Low-Delay Protocol for Multihop Wireless Body Area Networks
June 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) form a new and interesting area in the world of remote health monitoring. An important concern in such networks is the communication between the sensors. This...
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The Musical Synchrotron : Using Wireless Motion Sensors to Study How Social Interaction Affects Synchronization With Musical Tempo
June 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Musical Synchrotron is a software interface that connects wireless motion sensors to a real-time interactive environment (Pure Data, Max/MSP). In addition to the measurement of movement, the...
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EME: A Wireless Music Controller for Real-Time Music Interaction
April 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper an electronic sound and music controller, based on human movement using custom made wireless motion sensors, is presented. The system combines hardware technology, software...
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Wireless Optical Communication Using Silicon-on-Insulator Technology
September 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As the data rates are increasing, there is an increasing mismatch between wired and wireless communications. While optical fiber communication easily allows Gigabit-per-second (Gbps)...
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Cross-Network Cooperation Paradigms Supporting Co-Located Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless services and wireless devices have become an important part of the people daily life. However, as the number of wireless devices increases, so does the density of co-located devices in...
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Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless sensor networks are networks consisting of many tiny and often resource impoverished sensor nodes communicating through a low-power and short-range radio interface. The authors are used...
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Comparison of FEC and ARQ for Protection of Video Data Over a Wireless Rayleigh Fading Link
December 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Video content can be provided to an end user by transmitting video data as a sequence of Internet Protocol (IP) packets over the network. When the network contains a wireless link, packet erasures...
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