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Efficiency Benefits Through Load-Balancing With Link Reliability Based Routing in WSNs
April 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) energy efficiency of routing protocols is of primary importance. Embedded with local load balancing mechanisms, the proposed L2RP protocol is a link reliability...
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Evaluation of Distributed SOAP and RESTful Mobile Web Services
April 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Even mobile Web Services are still provided using servers that usually reside in the core networks. Main reason for not providing large and complex Web Services from resource limited mobile...
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Traffic Shaping Via Congestion Signals Delegation
April 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a new architecture that enables a set of clients to enforce traffic shaping policies among them through the delegation of congestion signals. When congestion-aware Internet...
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A Further Look at the Distance-Availability Weighted Piece Selection Method: A BitTorrent Piece Selection Method for On-Demand Media Streaming
April 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
During the last few years, BitTorrent has become a popular way of transferring large files over the Internet. However, the original out-of-order nature of the BitTorrent protocol has made it...
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Introduction to Practical Deployments on Wireless Sensor Networks
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
In the recent years there have been many published papers related on sensors. The authors can say that it is one of the hot topics of the last decades. But, the more they read, the more they...
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Wireless Multi-Sensor Embedded System for Agro-Industrial Monitoring and Control
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
The paper presents a development of the multi sensor embedded system for measuring up to eight sensor parameters optimized by appropriate algorithms. Since, most of the industrial applications use...
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Distributed Monitoring Systems for Agriculture Based on Wireless Sensor Network Technology
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
The adoption of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for wide area environmental monitoring is currently considered one of the most challenging application scenarios for this emerging technology. The...
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Evaluation of Environmental Wireless Sensor Network - Case Fox house
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Environmental monitoring in agriculture is an interesting and promising area of application for wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks can deliver valuable information about...
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Infrared Wireless Network Sensors for Imminent Forest Fire Detection
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents an automatic forest fire surveillance ground system applied to early fire detection. Sensor wireless network scheme allows not only supervising remotely wide-forest area, but...
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A Distributed Network Management Approach to WSN in Personal Healthcare Applications
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper describes the development of a Wireless Sensor Network personal health monitoring system called Medical MoteCare which uses a combination of medical and environmental sensors. SNMP and...
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Design and Implementation of Multi-User Wireless Body Sensor Networks
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper describes the development of two low power wireless Body Sensor Network (BSN) prototypes that allow the real-time monitoring of wearable sensors data from multiple users with a single...
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Human-Assisted Calibration of an Angulation Based Location Indoor System With Preselection of Measurements
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Besides aspects like accuracy and cost, a simple setup process is essential for the adoption of location systems. However, existing systems often require a time-consuming calibration process to...
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An Integrating Platform for Environmental Monitoring in Museums Based on Wireless Sensor Networks
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Monitoring the museum's environment for preventive conservation of art purposes is one major concern to all museums. In order to properly conserve the artwork it is critical to continuously...
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A Wireless IP Multisensor Deployment
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Every sensor node in a Wireless Sensor Network has a microcontroller, a transmitter/receiver and a sensor. It is able to acquire data from specific point in a real environment and transmit it...
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Evaluation of Outdoor RSS-Based Tracking for WSNs Aiming at Topology Parameter Ranges Selection
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
The localization and tracking applications are among the most challenging applications, especially when the Received Signal Strength (RSS) is utilized. The RSS is known to be a noisy signal and...
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Practical Deployments of Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Sensor networks are becoming one of the most used technologies in the people lives. Although there are several surveys about sensor networks, almost all of them focus on theoretical basis with...
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Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks: Efficient Localization Schemes Using SemiDefinite Programming
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Location awareness and distance estimation cannot be underestimated in wireless sensor networks especially for the marine environment. State-of-the-art localization research and approaches have...
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A Taxonomy of Incentive Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Design Requirements and Classification
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Free riders in the Peer-to-Peer systems are the nodes that only consume services but provide little or nothing in return. The people seriously degrade the fault-tolerance, scalability and content...
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Constructing a Stable Virtual Peer From Multiple Unstable Peers for Fault-Tolerant P2P Systems
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
P2P systems must handle unexpected peer failure and leaving, and thus it is more difficult to implement than server-client systems. In this paper, the authors propose a novel approach to implement...
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Resilient P2P Streaming
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
P2P streaming has shown an alternative way of broadcasting media to the end users. It is theoretically more scalable than its client-server based counterpart but suffers from other issues arising...
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Increasing Energy Efficiency in Mobile Peer Networks by Exploiting Traffic Sampling Techniques
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless infrastructures have seen a drastic increase in energy requirements as technology has shifted towards higher allocated frequencies in an attempt to provide more bandwidth to accommodate...
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Replica Placement Algorithm Based on Peer Availability for P2P Storage Systems
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) technology is an emerging approach to overcoming the limitations of the traditional client server architecture. However, building a highly available P2P system is quite...
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Functionality of a Database Kernel for Image Retrieval
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a software tool that implements a dedicated multimedia database management server for managing alphanumerical and multimedia data collections from medical domain, along with...
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Study of a Secure Backup Network Mechanism for Disaster Recovery and Practical Network Applications
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
A practical mechanism for a file-backup system concept is proposed. In this paper, it is demonstrated that a highly secure file backup mechanism can be achieved by combining technologies that...
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A Multipath Approach for Improving Performance of Remote Desktop Transmission
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Remote desktop systems enable business users to access critical data located in the office from outside it with a mobile thin client or any other portable ubiquitous devices without having to...
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A Proactive Energy-Efficient Technique for Change Management in Computing Clouds
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
The intensive use of portable and thin client devices along with the continuously increasing cost of IT management have pushed large IT companies to look for solutions that allow the use of such...
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A Novel Fault Diagnosis Technique in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In sensor networks, performance and reliability depend on the fault tolerance scheme used in the system. With increased network size traditional fault tolerant techniques have proven inadequate....
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Integrated System for Malicious Node Discovery and Self-Destruction in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
With the tremendous advances of the wireless devices technology, securing wireless sensor networks became more and more a vital but also a challenging task. In this paper, the authors propose an...
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A Novel Approach to Indoor Location Systems Using Propagation Models in WSNs
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes a location system for persons and objects in an indoor environment, where wireless nodes can include sensors and provide unique identifiers. The system nodes, using ZigBee...
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New Sensing Model for Wireless Sensor Networks
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The paper presents a new model of sensing coverage, supposed to achieve a better efficiency of energy utilization for remote sensing, by using an adaptable radii and angles algorithm. Coverage...
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FastM: Design and Evaluation of a Fast Mobility Mechanism for Wireless Mesh Networks
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In terms of mobility approaches for Wireless Mesh Networks, usually these approaches introduce high latency in the handover process and do not support real-time services and applications....
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The VERHO Mobility Management System for Heterogeneous Network Environments
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present their solution for intelligent network interface selection and (vertical) handover control for heterogeneous multi-access environments. The 4th generation mobile...
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Function Modulation - The Theory for Green Modem
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Bandwidth of a digital communication channel is a valuable natural resource. Therefore it is important that the usage of this resource is minimized by carefully designing the digital modems. In...
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Video Quality Assessment as Impacted by Video Content Over Wireless Networks
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The primary aim of this paper is to assess video quality for all content types as affected by Quality of Service (QoS) parameters both in the application and network level. Video streaming is a...
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Dynamic Adaptation of Quality of Service for VoIP Communications
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes an adaptive solution to provide quality of service in Voice over IP communications. This solution is based on three components that interact in order to achieve higher quality...
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Efficient Packet Scheduling Schemes With Built-in Fairness Control for Multiantenna Packet Radio Systems
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose fairness-oriented dual stream Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) packet scheduling schemes with efficient utilization of Channel Quality Indicator (CQI)...
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SLS Management Validation for End to End QoS Management in a Multidomain Testbed Environment
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the validation of an end-to-end QoS integrated management system in a multidomain test-bed environment. The integrated management system was designed and implemented in the...
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Diffusion Approximation Models for Transient States and Their Application to Priority Queues
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The paper presents a diffusion approximation model applied to investigate the behavior of priority queues. The authors discusses the use of the diffusion approximation in transient analysis of...
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Performance Evaluation for Different Arrangements of Routing and Forwarding Paths Within Bufferless Data Vortex Networks
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Extended performance evaluation is carried out on Data Vortex optical interconnection networks with different routing and forwarding path arrangements. A modified Data Vortex network architecture...
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Adjustable Multi-Sector Cellular Base Station Antenna
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a Dual Beam Array (DBA) for higher-order sectorization of a cellular site. This technique provides a means of cost-effective boosting network capacity without the use of...
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A Tool for the Evaluation of the Complexity of Programs Using C++ Templates
September 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the relationship between C++ template metaprogramming and computational complexity, showing how templates characterize the class of polynomial-time computable functions, by...
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Formal Verification of Parameterized Multi-Agent Systems Using Predicate Diagrams
September 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a formal diagram-based verification technique for multi-agent systems. A multi-agent system is a collection of intelligent agents that interact with each others and work...
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A Tool for Signal Probability Analysis of FPGA-Based Systems
September 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors describe a model of Field Programmable Gate Array based systems realised with the Stochastic Activity Networks formalism. The model can be used to debug the circuit design synthesised...
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Balanced Reduction of an IDE-Based Spatio-Temporal Model
September 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Spatio-temporal models have the potential to represent a wide variety of dynamic behaviour such as the growth of bacteria, the dispersion of a pollutant or the changing spatial patterns in house...
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An Application of a Domain-Specific Language Facilitating Abstraction and Secure Access to a Crime and Ballistic Data Sharing Platform
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Crime investigation requires controlled sharing, secure access and formalized reporting on heterogeneous datasets. This paper will focus on encapsulating data structures and services, whilst...
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PS-NET - A Predictable Typed Coordination Language for Stream Processing in Resource-Constrained Environments
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Stream processing is a well-suited application pattern for embedded computing. This holds true even more so when it comes to multi-core systems where concurrency plays an important role. With the...
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Euclides - A JavaScript to PostScript Translator
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Offering an easy access to programming languages that are difficult to approach directly dramatically reduces the inhibition threshold. The Generative Modeling Language is such a language and can...
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Debugging PVS Specifications of Control Logics Via Event-Driven Simulation
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a framework aimed at simulating control logics specified in the higher-order logic of the Prototype Verification System. The framework offers a library of...
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A Service-Based Model for the Internet Value Chain
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The exponential growth of Internet traffic is generating revenues which are not fairly distributed among all the actors involved in the value chain. In spite of the increasing returns for...
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Adaptive Resource Allocation Scheme for TETRA Networks With Multi-Operators
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors evaluate various aspects of packet data transmission in TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) networks giving particular emphasis on the performance of applications...
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Towards Neutrality in Access Networks: A NANDO Deployment With OpenFlow
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A next step in the evolution of Access Networks introduces a scenario in which the fair competition among service providers is enabled through the sharing of access infrastructure. CAPEX savings...
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Supporting L3 Femtocell Mobility Using the MOBIKE Protocol
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Femtocells can be used to improve the indoor coverage and bandwidth of 3G cellular networks in homes and buildings. The authors are designed to be placed in a fixed location. However, their use...
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Digital Complexity in DSL: An Extrapolated Historical Overview
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology for copper twisted pair access networks has been evolving to meet the ever growing demand for higher data rates. This evolution has gone hand in hand with...
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Energy Efficiency of Server Virtualization
March 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The need for computing power keeps on growing. The rising energy expenses of data centers have made server consolidation and virtualization important research areas. Virtualization and its...
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Reducing Power Consumption Using the Border Gateway Protocol
March 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a framework to reduce the aggregate power consumption of the Internet using a collaborative approach between Autonomous Systems (AS). They identify the low-power...
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Optimization of Energy and Emissions in High-Performance Grid Computing Data Centres
March 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
At an early stage of information and communications technology and high-performance computing, performance and reliability were two important factors in research and development. It was highly...
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A Privacy Preserving and Secure Authentication Protocol for the Advanced Metering Infrastructure With Non-Repudiation Service
March 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In the smart grid, smart meters play an important role in keeping a real-time balance between energy production and energy consumption. The advanced metering infrastructure is responsible of...
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MIMO-OFDM Based Broadband Power Line Communication Using Antenna and Fading Diversity
March 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors present multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) based Broadband Power Line Communication (BPLC) using antenna and fading diversity. They...
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Short-Term Energy Pattern Detection of Manufacturing Machines With In-Memory Databases - A Case Study
March 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Today's energy companies mainly use generalized demand sets to predict the required amount of energy of their customers on a high aggregation level. This is sufficient in an energy consumption...
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Energy-Aware Data Stream Management
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With the increasing use of Data Stream Management Systems (DSMS's) in energy-critical areas the energy consumption of the DSMS itself is gaining growing importance. However, processing data...
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Optimal Control of Residential Energy Storage Under Price Fluctuations
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
An increasing number of retail energy markets exhibit price fluctuations and provide home users the opportunity to buy energy at lower than average prices. However, such cost savings are hard to...
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Sensors and IEDs Required by Smart Distribution Applications
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In order to meet the electric energy needs at the beginning of this new millennium, utilities need to provide high quality power over a reliable grid, to satisfy customer's growing service quality...
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Developing Methods for the Detection of High Impedance Faults in Distribution
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
High Impedance Faults are known to be extremely hard to detect. At the same time the efficient detection of them is very important to electric power providers. One of the challenges belonging to a...
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Synchronisation Challenges Within Future Smart Grid Infrastructure
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Synchronisation of computer systems is a challenging task when the systems communicate across a dynamic and variable latency network but becomes especially challenging when the network contains...
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Smart Beijing: Correlation of Urban Electrical Energy Consumption With Urban Environmental Sensing for Optimizing Distribution Planning
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper focuses on consumer-side activities and investigates the environmental impact of the electrical energy consumer (transportation, buildings, street lighting, etc.), in order to improve...
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Energy Coupling Control of Telecommunication Network and Power Grid
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a control architecture that allows to operate the energy storage facilities integrated into the wide area telecommunication network as mediators between the...
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Non-Intrusive Appliance Monitoring Now: Effective Data, Generative Modelling and LETE
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Monitoring energy consumption at appliance level is a necessary condition for many energy efficient applications. In this paper, the authors have identified Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) as...
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Smard Grid Software Applications for Distribution Network Load Forecasting
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes three software applications for distribution network load forecasting in a Smart Grid environment: short-term feeder load forecasting, short-term substation transformer load...
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Optimal Scheduling of Smart Homes Energy Consumption With Microgrid
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Microgrid is taken as the future Smart Grid, and can work as a local energy provider to domestic buildings and reduce energy expenses. To further lower the cost, a Smart Homes idea is suggested....
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Monitoring IT Power Consumption in a Research Center: Seven Facts
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze the power consumption of several IT devices placed in a research center affiliated to the University. The data collection lasted about one year and the analysis let one...
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Using Multitasking and SSD Disks for Optimising Computing Cluster Energy-Efficiency
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors tested how Solid-State Drives (SSD) and multitasking, i.e., running more than one task per CPU core, affect performance and energy consumption in I/O intensive data analysis jobs in...
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Exploiting Demand Response in Web-Based Energy-Aware Smart Homes
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Energy conservation is a global issue with tremendous environmental implications. By 2030, the global energy demand will double. High demands and environmental concerns, force the transformation...
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ASIA: An Access Control, Session Invocation and Authorization Architecture for Home Energy Appliances in Smart Energy Grid Environments
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With the advent of the smart energy grid - an energy transportation and distribution network being combined with an IT network for its monitoring and control - information security has gained...
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An Ontology-Based Reperesentation of the Google+ API
April 25, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Social Networking Services (SNS) provide users with functionalities for developing their on line social networks, connecting with other users, sharing and consuming content. While most of popular...
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Cloud Computing Ontologies: A Systematic Review
April 25, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper is to obtain a holistic view of Cloud Computing ontologies, their applications and focuses. The identification of primary studies in this systematic review is based on a pre-defined...
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Towards Semantic Interoperability of Graphical Domain Specific Modeling Languages for Telecommunications Service Design
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
High competition pressures Telecommunications service providers to reduce their concept-to-market time. To manage more easily service complexity among several actors in the design process and to...
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Formal Logic Based Configuration Modeling and Verification for Dynamic Component Systems
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Reconfigurable networked systems have often been developed via dynamically deployed software components that are executing on top of interconnected heterogenous hardware nodes. The challenges...
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The Design, Instantiation, and Usage of Information Security Measuring Ontology
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Measuring security is a complex task and requires a great deal of knowledge. Managing this knowledge and presenting it in a universal way is challenging. This paper describes the Information...
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Application of Scenario-Driven Role Engineering to the MinaBASE Process Knowledge Database
August 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Collaborative systems, which are often used in short-term virtual enterprises or long-term cooperation networks, often contain information's about the manufacturing and fabrication competences of...
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Using Avatars for Improved Authentication With Challenge Questions
August 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a novel method for improving the security of challenge question authentication, which traditionally requires a user to answer questions such as "What is your Mother's Maiden...
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