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Examining User Acceptance of SMS: An Empirical Study in China and Hong Kong
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
Short Message Service (SMS) has become an integral part of people's lives. It is one of the most popular services for mobile communications. This paper examines the determinants of user intention...
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XR-Tree: Indexing XML Data for Efficient Structural Joins
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
XML documents are typically queried with a combination of value search and structure search. While querying by values can leverage traditional database technologies, evaluating structural...
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Externalizing Java Server Concurrency With CAL
December 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
One of the most important decisions about the architecture of a server program is its concurrency mechanisms. However, a good concurrency model for general-purpose server programs is increasingly...
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Rumor Riding: Anonymizing Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Although anonymizing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems often incurs extra costs in terms of transfer efficiency, many systems try to mask the identities of their users for privacy considerations....
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QoS-Revenue Tradeoff With Time-Constrained ISP Pricing
April 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Usage-based pricing has been recognized as a network congestion management tool. Internet Service Providers (ISPs), however, have limited ability to set time-adaptive usage-price to manage...
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An Empirical Study of the Coolstreaming+ System
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
In recent years, there has been significant interest in adopting the Peer-To-Peer (P2P) technology for Internet live video streaming. There are primarily two reasons behind this development: the...
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Image-Based Tree Modeling
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose an approach for generating 3D models of natural-looking trees from images that has the additional benefit of requiring little user intervention. While the...
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Statistical Eigenmode Transmission Over Jointly-Correlated MIMO Channels
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate MIMO eigenmode transmission using statistical channel state information at the transmitter. They consider a general jointly-correlated MIMO channel model, which does not...
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Optimal Sparse CDMA Detection at High Load
May 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Balancing efficiency of bandwidth use and complexity of detection involves choosing a suitable load for a multi-access channel. In the case of synchronous CDMA, with random codes, it is possible...
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Delay-Optimal Power and Precoder Adaptation for Multi-Stream MIMO Systems
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication is well-known to boost the wireless spectral efficiency through spatial multiplexing. Substantial performance gain could be obtained by power...
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Reducing Handover Delay by Preselective Scanning Using GPS
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
IEEE 802.11 based mobile communication towers is used very much in many personal and industrial purposes as it provides a continuous connectivity to Mobile Nodes (MNs) and allows them to change...
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A Low-Overhead Energy Detection Based Cooperative Sensing Protocol for Cognitive Radio Systems
August 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access represent a new paradigm shift in more effective use of limited radio spectrum. One core component behind dynamic spectrum access is the sensing of...
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Forecasted Earnings Per Share And The Cross Section Of Expected Stock Returns
January 15, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors document that analysts' Forecasted Earnings Per Share (FEPS) can predict subsequent stock returns. More specifically, stocks with higher FEPS earn substantially higher...
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Queue-Aware Dynamic Clustering and Power Allocation for Network MIMO Systems Via Distributive Stochastic Learning
December 20, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose a two-timescale delay-optimal dynamic clustering and power allocation design for downlink network MIMO systems. The dynamic clustering control is adaptive to the...
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Stochastic Control of Event-Driven Feedback in Multi-Antenna Interference Channels
December 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
Spatial interference avoidance is a simple and effective way of mitigating interference in multi-antenna wireless networks. The deployment of this technique requires Channel-State Information...
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Resource Optimisation in a Wireless Sensor Network With Guaranteed Estimator Performance
June 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
New control paradigms are needed for large networks of wireless sensors and actuators in order to efficiently utilise system resources. In this paper, the authors consider the problem of...
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Information Technology in Supply Chains: The Value of IT-Enabled Resources Under Competition
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors seek to better understand the value of Information Technology (IT) in supply chain contexts. Grounded in the resource-based theory in conjunction with transaction cost...
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FlexSync: An Aspect-Oriented Approach to Java Synchronization
December 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Designers of concurrent programs are faced with many choices of synchronization mechanisms, among which clear functional trade-offs exist. Making synchronization customizable is highly desirable...
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Volatility, Growth, And Welfare
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper constructs an endogenous growth model driven by self-fulfilling expectation shocks to explain the stylized fact that the average growth rate of GDP is related negatively to volatility...
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Cooperative Communications for Cognitive Radio Networks
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive radio is observed as a novel approach, which could cope with the spectral limitations. This approach is designed to detect whether a particular segment of the radio spectrum is currently...
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m.HKUST 1.5.1 (Mobile)
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
m.HKUST is a 'must have' for all tech-savvy students, faculty and friends of HKUST. It gives you mobile access to all the information you need at a sweep of a finger. Features:-What's News -...
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Financing Real Investment With Stock Options
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The use of broad-based employee stock option plans grew tremendously during the 1990’s and the aggregate annual value of grants by US firms surpassed $100 billion by 2000. Prior literature...
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Employee Stock Options, Financing Constraints, And Real Investment
September 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Exercises of employee stock options generate substantial cash inflows to the firm. In the authors' model, these cash inflows are correlated with improvements in the firm's investment opportunities...
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On Optimal Physical Carrier Sensing: Theoretical Analysis and Protocol Design
October 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Traditional Physical Carrier Sensing (PCS), which aims at eliminating hidden terminals in wireless networks, causes too many exposed terminals and deteriorates the throughput per user seriously....
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Formal Finance And Trade Credit During China's Transition
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Using a large panel dataset of Chinese industrial firms, the authors examine the determinants of access to loans from formal financial intermediaries and extension of trade credit. Poorly...
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Cloud Computing and Its Implications for Construction IT
April 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud Computing (CC) has been attracting a huge amount of interest in the post-dotcom boom and bust and the current web 2.0 information technology world. More recently, the momentum gained by the...
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A Semantic-Based Architecture for Sensor Networks
August 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With rapid development of sensor networks technology, it becomes feasible to deploy multiple sensor networks in relevant area to collect interested information. Sensor nodes that are co-located...
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Volatility And Expected Returns Around The World
September 27, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate how the stochastic local (global) market volatility is priced in the cross section of individual stock (country market portfolio) expected returns in the global market...
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Spatial Intercell Interference Cancellation With CSI Training and Feedback
May 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate Inter-Cell Interference Cancellation (ICIC) with a practical downlink training and uplink Channel State Information (CSI) feedback model. The average downlink throughput...
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Application-Aware Topology Formation Algorithm for Peer-to-Peer Networks
September 29, 2006, 12:00am PDT
When constructing an unstructured P2P topology, one should jointly consider the application running on top of it in order to achieve a good performance for the whole P2P system. Existing work...
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An Optimal Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for File Distribution Networks
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the problem of bandwidth allocation in bulk file distribution networks. They use the minimum overall finishing time as their metric to evaluate the network...
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Optimal Energy-Efficient Cooperative Sensing Scheduling for Cognitive Radio Networks With QoS Guarantee
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative spectrum sensing, which can profoundly improve the ability of discovering the spectrum opportunities, is regarded as an enabling mechanism for Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs). One of...
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Cooperative Sensing Scheduling for Energy-Aware Cognitive Radio Networks
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative spectrum sensing, which provides an effective approach to improve the sensing performance and better exploit the spectrum opportunities, is an important technology to enable the...
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Joint Spectrum Sharing and Fair Routing in Cognitive Radio Networks
October 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a cross-layer optimization framework to jointly design the spectrum sharing and flow routing with the interference considerations in cognitive radio networks....
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Optimal Cooperative Sensing Scheduling and Parameter Design for Energy-Efficient Cognitive Radio Networks
November 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Due to the problem of spectrum scarcity and large energy consumption in wireless communications, designing energy-efficient Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) becomes important and necessary. In this...
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Finding Optimal Marking Probability to Reduce Convergence Time
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
On IP traceback, it is important to reduce the minimum number of packets required for path reconstruction (i.e., convergence time) for a Probability Packet Marking (PPM) scheme. In this paper, the...
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Joint Bandwidth and Power Allocations for Cognitive Radio Networks With Imperfect Spectrum Sensing
March 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors study the joint bandwidth and power allocations for Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), which opportunistically operate on a set of channels unused by Primary Users (PUs)...
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Joint Pricing and Power Allocation for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks With Stackelberg Game Model
May 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the joint pricing and power allocation for Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) networks with Stackelberg game. In their model, Primary User (PU) is the game leader and...
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SLA Guaranteed Virtual Machine Consolidation for Large Public Computing Clouds
July 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Contrary to the belief that public computing clouds can significantly reduce the IT maintenance cost for business owners, migrating the IT infrastructure of companies into the public computing...
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Localized or Interleaved? a Tradeoff Between Diversity and CFO Interference in Multipath Channels
June 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO) damages the orthogonality between sub-carriers and thus causes multiuser interference in uplink OFDMA/SC-FDMA systems. For a given CFO, such multiuser interference...
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Towards Low-Redundancy Push-Pull P2P Live Streaming
July 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
P2P live streaming systems are developed in two major approaches: tree-push versus mesh-pull. The hybrid push-pull streaming, as an emerging and promising approach, offers a good tradeoff between...
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Towards Energy-Fairness in Asynchronous Duty-Cycling Sensor Networks
February 17, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors investigate the problem of controlling node sleep intervals so as to achieve the min-max energy fairness in asynchronous duty-cycling sensor networks. They propose a...
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Collaborative Hierarchical Caching With Dynamic Request Routing for Massive Content Distribution
January 17, 2012, 12:00am PST
Massive content delivery in metropolitan networks has recently gained much attention with the successful deployment of commercial systems and an increasing user popularity. With an enormous volume...
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A Survey on Delay-Aware Resource Control for Wireless Systems - Large Deviation Theory, Stochastic Lyapunov Drift and Distributed Stochastic Learning
October 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, a comprehensive survey is given on several major systematic approaches in dealing with delay-aware control problems, namely the equivalent rate constraint approach, the Lyapunov...
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Utilizing RF Interference to Enable Private Estimation in RFID Systems
October 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Counting or estimating the number of tags is crucial for RFID system. Researchers have proposed several fast cardinality estimation schemes to estimate the quantity of a batch of tags within a...
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Revisting Tag Collision Problem in RFID Systems
June 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In RFID systems, the reader is unable to discriminate concurrently reported IDs of tags from the overlapped signals, and a collision happens. Many algorithms for anti-collision are proposed to...
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Negotiate Power and Performance in the Reality of RFID Systems
February 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Recent years have witnessed the wide adoption of the RFID technology in many important application domains including logistics, inventory, retailing, public transportation, and security. Though...
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Detecting and Avoiding Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
November 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
A particularly severe attack on routing protocols in ad hoc networks is the so-called wormhole attack in which two or more colluding attackers record packets at one location, and tunnel them to...
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A Preliminary Study of Information Collection in a Mobile Sensor Network
June 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobile sensor networks are desirable in a variety of application scenarios, in which information collection is no doubt of great importance. In this paper, the authors present a mobile sensor...
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Non-Threshold Based Event Detection for 3D Environment Monitoring in Sensor Networks
March 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Event detection is a crucial task for wireless sensor network applications, especially environment monitoring. Existing approaches for event detection are mainly based on some predefined threshold...
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Sweep Coverage With Mobile Sensors
January 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
Many efforts have been made for addressing coverage problems in sensor networks. They fall into two categories, full coverage and barrier coverage, featured as static coverage. In this paper, the...
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Uplink Cross-Layer Scheduling With Differential QoS Requirements in OFDMA Systems
September 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Fair and efficient scheduling is a key issue in cross-layer design for wireless communication systems, such as 3GPP LTE and WiMAX. However, few works have considered the multi-access of the...
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Distributed Channel Assignment and Routing in Multiradio Multi-Channel Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
November 21, 2006, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors first identify several challenges in designing a Joint Channel Assignment and Routing (JCAR) protocol in heterogeneous Multi-radio Multi-channel Multi-hop Wireless...
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An Energy-Efficient K-Hop Clustering Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
March 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
Many applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) benefit significantly from organizing nodes into groups, called clusters, because data aggregation and data filtering applied in each cluster...
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ASAP: Scalable Identification and Counting for Contactless RFID Systems
March 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The growing importance of operations such as identification, location sensing and object tracking has led to increasing interests in contactless Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) systems....
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Decentralized Fair Scheduling in Two-Hop Relay-Assisted Cognitive OFDMA Systems
June 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider a two-hop relay-assisted cognitive downlink OFDMA system (named as secondary system) dynamically accessing a spectrum licensed to a primary network, thereby...
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Joint Cross-Layer Scheduling and Spectrum Sensing for OFDMA Cognitive Radio Systems
February 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
In most of the existing works on Cognitive Radio (CR) systems, the spectrum sensing and the cross-layer scheduling are designed separately. Specifically, the sensing module first determines...
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Combined Cross-Layer Design and HARQ for Multiuser Systems With Outdated Channel State Information at Transmitter (CSIT) in Slow Fading Channels
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Cross-layer scheduling and Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) are effective means to improve the spectral efficiency of wireless systems. However, most of the existing works handle HARQ and cross-layer scheduling...
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Decentralized Fair Resource Allocation for Relay-Assisted Cognitive Cellular Downlink Systems
September 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider a relay-assisted cognitive cellular downlink system dynamically accessing a spectrum licensed to a primary network, thereby improving the efficiency of spectrum...
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Localized or Interleaved? a Tradeoff Between Diversity and CFO Interference in Multipath Channels
June 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO) damages the orthogonality between sub-carriers and thus causes multiuser interference in uplink OFDMA/SC-FDMA systems. For a given CFO, such multiuser interference...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
SLA Guaranteed Virtual Machine Consolidation for Large Public Computing Clouds
July 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Contrary to the belief that public computing clouds can significantly reduce the IT maintenance cost for business owners, migrating the IT infrastructure of companies into the public computing...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Joint Pricing and Power Allocation for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks With Stackelberg Game Model
May 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the joint pricing and power allocation for Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) networks with Stackelberg game. In their model, Primary User (PU) is the game leader and...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Joint Bandwidth and Power Allocations for Cognitive Radio Networks With Imperfect Spectrum Sensing
March 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors study the joint bandwidth and power allocations for Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), which opportunistically operate on a set of channels unused by Primary Users (PUs)...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Finding Optimal Marking Probability to Reduce Convergence Time
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
On IP traceback, it is important to reduce the minimum number of packets required for path reconstruction (i.e., convergence time) for a Probability Packet Marking (PPM) scheme. In this paper, the...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Optimal Cooperative Sensing Scheduling and Parameter Design for Energy-Efficient Cognitive Radio Networks
November 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Due to the problem of spectrum scarcity and large energy consumption in wireless communications, designing energy-efficient Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) becomes important and necessary. In this...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Joint Spectrum Sharing and Fair Routing in Cognitive Radio Networks
October 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a cross-layer optimization framework to jointly design the spectrum sharing and flow routing with the interference considerations in cognitive radio networks....
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Cooperative Sensing Scheduling for Energy-Aware Cognitive Radio Networks
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative spectrum sensing, which provides an effective approach to improve the sensing performance and better exploit the spectrum opportunities, is an important technology to enable the...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Optimal Energy-Efficient Cooperative Sensing Scheduling for Cognitive Radio Networks With QoS Guarantee
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative spectrum sensing, which can profoundly improve the ability of discovering the spectrum opportunities, is regarded as an enabling mechanism for Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs). One of...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
An Optimal Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for File Distribution Networks
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the problem of bandwidth allocation in bulk file distribution networks. They use the minimum overall finishing time as their metric to evaluate the network...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Application-Aware Topology Formation Algorithm for Peer-to-Peer Networks
September 29, 2006, 12:00am PDT
When constructing an unstructured P2P topology, one should jointly consider the application running on top of it in order to achieve a good performance for the whole P2P system. Existing work...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Spatial Intercell Interference Cancellation With CSI Training and Feedback
May 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate Inter-Cell Interference Cancellation (ICIC) with a practical downlink training and uplink Channel State Information (CSI) feedback model. The average downlink throughput...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Volatility And Expected Returns Around The World
September 27, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate how the stochastic local (global) market volatility is priced in the cross section of individual stock (country market portfolio) expected returns in the global market...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
A Semantic-Based Architecture for Sensor Networks
August 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With rapid development of sensor networks technology, it becomes feasible to deploy multiple sensor networks in relevant area to collect interested information. Sensor nodes that are co-located...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Cloud Computing and Its Implications for Construction IT
April 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud Computing (CC) has been attracting a huge amount of interest in the post-dotcom boom and bust and the current web 2.0 information technology world. More recently, the momentum gained by the...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Formal Finance And Trade Credit During China's Transition
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Using a large panel dataset of Chinese industrial firms, the authors examine the determinants of access to loans from formal financial intermediaries and extension of trade credit. Poorly...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
On Optimal Physical Carrier Sensing: Theoretical Analysis and Protocol Design
October 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Traditional Physical Carrier Sensing (PCS), which aims at eliminating hidden terminals in wireless networks, causes too many exposed terminals and deteriorates the throughput per user seriously....
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Employee Stock Options, Financing Constraints, And Real Investment
September 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Exercises of employee stock options generate substantial cash inflows to the firm. In the authors' model, these cash inflows are correlated with improvements in the firm's investment opportunities...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Financing Real Investment With Stock Options
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The use of broad-based employee stock option plans grew tremendously during the 1990’s and the aggregate annual value of grants by US firms surpassed $100 billion by 2000. Prior literature...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Software
m.HKUST 1.5.1 (Mobile)
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
m.HKUST is a 'must have' for all tech-savvy students, faculty and friends of HKUST. It gives you mobile access to all the information you need at a sweep of a finger. Features:-What's News -...
Provided by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Cooperative Communications for Cognitive Radio Networks
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive radio is observed as a novel approach, which could cope with the spectral limitations. This approach is designed to detect whether a particular segment of the radio spectrum is currently...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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