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Cross-Layer Optimization for Video Transmission Over WLAN: Cross-Layer Prioritization
August 17, 2012, 12:00am PDT
As IEEE 802.11 wireless devices have become increasingly widespread, providing Quality of Service in the context of H.264/AVC, the video coding standard for future multimedia networking, has...
Provided by IGI Global
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Whitepapers
Multimedia Broadcasting in LTE Networks
December 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
Long Term Evolution (LTE) constitutes the latest step before the 4th Generation (4G) of radio technologies designed to increase the capacity and speed of mobile communications. To support...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Decentralized Overlay for Federation of Enterprise Clouds
January 23, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper describes Aneka-Federation, a decentralized and distributed system that combines enterprise Clouds, overlay networking, and structured peer-to-peer techniques to create scalable...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
In-Vehicle Network Architecture for the Next-Generation Vehicles
January 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
New types of communication networks will be necessary to meet various consumer and regulatory demands as well as satisfy requirements of safety and fuel efficiency. Various functionalities of...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Enterprise Architecture and Integration: Methods, Implementation, and Technologies
July 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
SOA or service-oriented architecture is an innovative approach to enterprise application integration that increases the benefits of EAI by means of standardizing the application interfaces. This...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Security Issues for Cloud Computing
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors discuss security issues for cloud computing and present a layered framework for secure clouds and then focus on two of the layers, i.e., the storage layer and the data...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
WSBen: A Web Services Discovery and Composition Benchmark Toolkit
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
A Web Service is a set of related functionalities that can be loosely coupled with other services programmatically through the Web. Examples of web applications using Web services include weather...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Malicious Software
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Malicious software (malware) allows an intruder to take over or damage a target host without the owner's consent and often without his or her knowledge. Over the past thirty years, malware has...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Malicious Software in Mobile Devices
November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
This chapter examines the scope of malicious software (malware) threats to mobile devices. The stakes for the wireless industry are high. While malware is rampant among 1 billion PCs,...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Experiences Enhancing Open Source Security in the POSSE Project
October 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This chapter reports on the experiences with POSSE, a project studying "Portable Open Source Security Elements" as part of the larger DARPA effort on Composable High Assurance Trusted Systems. The...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Data Mining in the Telecommunications Industry
July 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The telecommunications industry was one of the first to adopt data mining technology. This is most likely because telecommunication companies routinely generate and store enormous amounts of...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Time-Based Confidentiality Enhancement Scheme for Mobile Wireless Networks
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
A multi-hop wireless network with highly dynamic members and mobility is vulnerable to many attacks. To address this problem, the authors propose a novel time-based approach that exploits...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
e-System for Public Health in India: Towards an Architectural Framework Incorporating Illiteracy and Linguistic Diversity
June 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Public health stands for the study and practice of those activities and initiatives that result in the prevention and reduction of incidences of illnesses and diseases in the population. The...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Handbook of Research on Mobile Multimedia
November 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
Collaborative Work Environments are software systems that allow teams, which are nowadays often distributed in location and organization to which they belong, to achieve certain projects or...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Principles and Applications of Distributed Event-Based Systems
July 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web services have received a lot of attention from both industry and academia. Services as the core entities of every SOA are changing regularly based on...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Mining Frequent Generalized Patterns for Web Personalization in the Presence of Taxonomies
September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Web is a continuously evolving environment, since its content is updated on a regular basis. As a result, the traditional usage-based approach to generate recommendations that takes as input...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Business Process Control-Flow Complexity: Metric, Evaluation, And Validation
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Organizations are increasingly faced with the challenge of managing business processes, workflows, and recently, Web processes. One important aspect of business processes that has been overlooked...
Provided by IGI Global
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A Privacy Protection Model for Patient Data With Multiple Sensitive Attributes
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The identity of patients must be protected when patient data are shared. The two most commonly used models to protect identity of patients are L-diversity and K-anonymity. However, existing work...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
A Generic Framework for Bluetooth Promoted Multimedia on Demand (BlueProMod)
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In recent years many technologies have converged to integrated solutions and one of the hottest topics has been the deployment of Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). In this paper, the...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
A Tool Supported Methodology for Developing Secure Mobile P2P Systems
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The growth of mobile devices with near PC equivalent capabilities has brought with it the possibility of mobile Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems. However, the unique nature of mobile devices introduces...
Provided by IGI Global
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Whitepapers
Run-Time Compositional Software Platform for Autonomous NXT Robots
April 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Autonomous Robots normally perform tasks in unstructured environments, with little or no continuous human guidance. This calls for context-aware, self-adaptive software systems. This paper aims at...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Asymmetric Geographic Forwarding: Exploiting Link Asymmetry in Location Aware Routing
May 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Geographic Forwarding (GF) algorithms typically employ a neighbor discovery method to maintain a neighborhood table that works well only if all wireless links are symmetric. Recent experimental...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Peer-to-Peer Over Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
August 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors review various approaches for the convergence of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) and Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs), identifying strengths and weaknesses, and putting things in...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Insights From Experimental Research on Distributed Channel Assignment in Wireless Testbeds
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the DES-Chan framework for experimental research on distributed channel assignment algorithms in wireless mesh testbeds. The implementation process of channel assignment...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Mobile WiMAX Bandwidth Reservation Thresholds: A Heuristic Approach
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the issue of wireless bandwidth partitioning of a Mobile WiMAX cell. The authors consider a Complete Partitioning strategy, where the wireless bandwidth capacity of a cell is...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Improving WLAN Performance by Modifying an IEEE 802.11 Protocol
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
One of the limitations of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) protocol is its low bandwidth utilization under medium-to-high traffic loads resulting in low throughput and high...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Lifetime Maximization in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
One of the fundamental requirements in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is to prolong the lifetime of sensor nodes by minimizing the energy consumption. The information about the energy status of...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Applying Cognitive Theories to Evaluate Conceptual Models in Systems Analysis
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Conceptual models have been evaluated along the dimensions of modeling complexity (how easy is it to create schemas given requirements?) and readability (how easy is it to understand the...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Human Resource Related Problems in Agile and Traditional Software Project Process Models
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the impacts associated with different software process models on the staff. The main research question addressed is whether any process model leads to a higher satisfaction of...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Virtual Product Development in University-Enterprise Partnership
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Development teams involved in product development are often geographically and temporally distributed, and there is a high level of outsourcing in product development efforts. Enterprises give...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Academic Weblogs as Tools for E-Collaboration Among Researchers
November 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Although scientific research has always been a social activity, in recent years the adoption of Internet-based communication tools by researchers (e.g., e-mail, electronic discussion boards,...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Analyzing Impacts on Software Enhancement Caused by Security Design Alternatives With Patterns
April 19, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Unlike functional implementations, it is difficult to analyze the impact on security of software enhancements. One of the difficulties is identifying the range of effects on existing software from...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Overview of Security Issues in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
October 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) are a promising communication scenario. Several new applications are envisioned, which will improve traffic management and safety. Nevertheless, those...
Provided by IGI Global
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Whitepapers
Run-Time Compositional Software Platform for Autonomous NXT Robots
April 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Autonomous Robots normally perform tasks in unstructured environments, with little or no continuous human guidance. This calls for context-aware, self-adaptive software systems. This paper aims at...
Provided by IGI Global
-
Whitepapers
Multimedia Broadcasting in LTE Networks
December 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
Long Term Evolution (LTE) constitutes the latest step before the 4th Generation (4G) of radio technologies designed to increase the capacity and speed of mobile communications. To support...
Provided by IGI Global
-
Whitepapers
Cross-Layer Optimization for Video Transmission Over WLAN: Cross-Layer Prioritization
August 17, 2012, 12:00am PDT
As IEEE 802.11 wireless devices have become increasingly widespread, providing Quality of Service in the context of H.264/AVC, the video coding standard for future multimedia networking, has...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Overview of Security Issues in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
October 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) are a promising communication scenario. Several new applications are envisioned, which will improve traffic management and safety. Nevertheless, those...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Analyzing Impacts on Software Enhancement Caused by Security Design Alternatives With Patterns
April 19, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Unlike functional implementations, it is difficult to analyze the impact on security of software enhancements. One of the difficulties is identifying the range of effects on existing software from...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Virtual Product Development in University-Enterprise Partnership
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Development teams involved in product development are often geographically and temporally distributed, and there is a high level of outsourcing in product development efforts. Enterprises give...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Human Resource Related Problems in Agile and Traditional Software Project Process Models
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the impacts associated with different software process models on the staff. The main research question addressed is whether any process model leads to a higher satisfaction of...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Applying Cognitive Theories to Evaluate Conceptual Models in Systems Analysis
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Conceptual models have been evaluated along the dimensions of modeling complexity (how easy is it to create schemas given requirements?) and readability (how easy is it to understand the...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Lifetime Maximization in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
One of the fundamental requirements in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is to prolong the lifetime of sensor nodes by minimizing the energy consumption. The information about the energy status of...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Improving WLAN Performance by Modifying an IEEE 802.11 Protocol
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
One of the limitations of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) protocol is its low bandwidth utilization under medium-to-high traffic loads resulting in low throughput and high...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Mobile WiMAX Bandwidth Reservation Thresholds: A Heuristic Approach
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the issue of wireless bandwidth partitioning of a Mobile WiMAX cell. The authors consider a Complete Partitioning strategy, where the wireless bandwidth capacity of a cell is...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Insights From Experimental Research on Distributed Channel Assignment in Wireless Testbeds
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the DES-Chan framework for experimental research on distributed channel assignment algorithms in wireless mesh testbeds. The implementation process of channel assignment...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Peer-to-Peer Over Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
August 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors review various approaches for the convergence of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) and Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs), identifying strengths and weaknesses, and putting things in...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Asymmetric Geographic Forwarding: Exploiting Link Asymmetry in Location Aware Routing
May 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Geographic Forwarding (GF) algorithms typically employ a neighbor discovery method to maintain a neighborhood table that works well only if all wireless links are symmetric. Recent experimental...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
A Tool Supported Methodology for Developing Secure Mobile P2P Systems
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The growth of mobile devices with near PC equivalent capabilities has brought with it the possibility of mobile Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems. However, the unique nature of mobile devices introduces...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
A Generic Framework for Bluetooth Promoted Multimedia on Demand (BlueProMod)
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In recent years many technologies have converged to integrated solutions and one of the hottest topics has been the deployment of Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). In this paper, the...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
A Privacy Protection Model for Patient Data With Multiple Sensitive Attributes
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The identity of patients must be protected when patient data are shared. The two most commonly used models to protect identity of patients are L-diversity and K-anonymity. However, existing work...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Business Process Control-Flow Complexity: Metric, Evaluation, And Validation
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Organizations are increasingly faced with the challenge of managing business processes, workflows, and recently, Web processes. One important aspect of business processes that has been overlooked...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Mining Frequent Generalized Patterns for Web Personalization in the Presence of Taxonomies
September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Web is a continuously evolving environment, since its content is updated on a regular basis. As a result, the traditional usage-based approach to generate recommendations that takes as input...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Principles and Applications of Distributed Event-Based Systems
July 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web services have received a lot of attention from both industry and academia. Services as the core entities of every SOA are changing regularly based on...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Handbook of Research on Mobile Multimedia
November 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
Collaborative Work Environments are software systems that allow teams, which are nowadays often distributed in location and organization to which they belong, to achieve certain projects or...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
e-System for Public Health in India: Towards an Architectural Framework Incorporating Illiteracy and Linguistic Diversity
June 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Public health stands for the study and practice of those activities and initiatives that result in the prevention and reduction of incidences of illnesses and diseases in the population. The...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Time-Based Confidentiality Enhancement Scheme for Mobile Wireless Networks
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
A multi-hop wireless network with highly dynamic members and mobility is vulnerable to many attacks. To address this problem, the authors propose a novel time-based approach that exploits...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Data Mining in the Telecommunications Industry
July 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The telecommunications industry was one of the first to adopt data mining technology. This is most likely because telecommunication companies routinely generate and store enormous amounts of...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Experiences Enhancing Open Source Security in the POSSE Project
October 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This chapter reports on the experiences with POSSE, a project studying "Portable Open Source Security Elements" as part of the larger DARPA effort on Composable High Assurance Trusted Systems. The...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Malicious Software in Mobile Devices
November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
This chapter examines the scope of malicious software (malware) threats to mobile devices. The stakes for the wireless industry are high. While malware is rampant among 1 billion PCs,...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Malicious Software
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Malicious software (malware) allows an intruder to take over or damage a target host without the owner's consent and often without his or her knowledge. Over the past thirty years, malware has...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
WSBen: A Web Services Discovery and Composition Benchmark Toolkit
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
A Web Service is a set of related functionalities that can be loosely coupled with other services programmatically through the Web. Examples of web applications using Web services include weather...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Security Issues for Cloud Computing
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors discuss security issues for cloud computing and present a layered framework for secure clouds and then focus on two of the layers, i.e., the storage layer and the data...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Enterprise Architecture and Integration: Methods, Implementation, and Technologies
July 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
SOA or service-oriented architecture is an innovative approach to enterprise application integration that increases the benefits of EAI by means of standardizing the application interfaces. This...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
In-Vehicle Network Architecture for the Next-Generation Vehicles
January 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
New types of communication networks will be necessary to meet various consumer and regulatory demands as well as satisfy requirements of safety and fuel efficiency. Various functionalities of...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Decentralized Overlay for Federation of Enterprise Clouds
January 23, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper describes Aneka-Federation, a decentralized and distributed system that combines enterprise Clouds, overlay networking, and structured peer-to-peer techniques to create scalable...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Academic Weblogs as Tools for E-Collaboration Among Researchers
November 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Although scientific research has always been a social activity, in recent years the adoption of Internet-based communication tools by researchers (e.g., e-mail, electronic discussion boards,...
Provided by IGI Global
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