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A Comparative Performance Evaluation of MAC Protocols for Underwater Sensor Networks
July 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A propagation-delay-aware MAC protocol, based on carrier sensing multiple access, is proposed. The design aims at maximizing the bandwidth utilization by keeping track of neighboring transmissions...
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Programming Language Techniques for Modular Router Configurations
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper applies programming language techniques to a high-level system description, both to optimize the system and to prove useful properties about it. The system in question is Click, a...
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MPEG-2 Decoding in a Stream Programming Language
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Image and video codecs are prevalent in multimedia devices, ranging from embedded systems, to desktop computers, to high-end servers such as HDTV editing consoles. It is not uncommon however that...
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MPEG-2 in a Stream Programming Language
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Image and video codecs are prevalent in multimedia applications, ranging from embedded systems, to desktop computers, to high-end servers such as HDTV editing consoles. It is not uncommon however...
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Keyword Programming in Java
September 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Keyword programming is a novel technique for reducing the need to remember details of programming language syntax and APIs, by translating a small number of unordered keywords provided by the user...
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Representing Agent Contracts With Exceptions Using XML Rules, Ontologies, and Process Descriptions
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial automation and...
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Static Deadlock Detection for Java Libraries
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Library writers wish to provide a guarantee not only that each procedure in the library performs correctly in isolation, but also that the procedures perform correctly when run in conjunction. To...
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Refactoring Sequential Java Code for Concurrency Via Concurrent Libraries
September 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Parallelizing existing sequential programs to run efficiently on multicores is hard. The Java 5 package java.util.concurrent (j.u.c.) supports writing concurrent programs: much of the complexity...
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ZigZag Decoding: Combating Hidden Terminals in Wireless Networks
April 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents ZigZag, an 802.11 receiver that combats hidden terminals. ZigZag exploits 802.11 retransmissions which, in the case of hidden terminals, cause successive collisions. Due to...
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Integrating RFID Readers in the Enterprise IT - Overview of Intra-Organizational RFID System Services and Architectures
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
RFID system deployments require the configuration, monitoring and data management of RFID readers. This paper provides an overview of different services deployed in intra-organizational RFID...
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Programming Language Techniques for Modular Router Configurations
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper applies programming language techniques to a high-level system description, both to optimize the system and to prove useful properties about it. The system in question is Click, a...
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Switching and Traffic Grooming in WDM Networks
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper considers the role of switching in minimizing the number of electronic ports (e.g., SONET ADMs) in an optical network that carries sub-wavelength traffic. Providing nodes with the...
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Towards an Active Network Architecture
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Active networks allow their users to inject customized programs into the nodes of the network. An extreme case, in which one is most interested, replaces packets with "Capsules" - program...
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Correctness Properties for Internet Routing
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper motivates and presents a correctness specification for Internet routing. This specification is based on three properties - route validity, path visibility, and safety. This...
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High Availability in DHTs: Erasure Coding Vs. Replication
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
High availability in peer-to-peer DHTs requires data redundancy. This paper compares two popular redundancy schemes: replication and erasure coding. Unlike previous comparisons, characteristics of...
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Dynamic Load Balancing Without Packet Reordering
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Dynamic load balancing is a popular recent technique that protects ISP networks from sudden congestion caused by load spikes or link failures. Dynamic load balancing protocols, however, require...
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Dependency-Based Distributed Intrusion Detection
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Distributed network intrusion detection has attracted much attention recently. The main focus in this work is on zero-day, slow-scanning worms, of which no existing signatures are available. End...
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Project Control Book
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This is a template for project control book.
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Energy Efficient Connected Clusters for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
August 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) is a wireless infrastuctureless network with mobile nodes. Clustering is a common basis for building higher level applications for such networks. The merit of a...
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Creating an Intelligent Infrastructure for ERP Systems: The Role of RFID Technology
April 14, 2004, 12:00am PDT
At its core, ERP is essentially a large database. As increasing amounts of data become available through new technologies such as RFID, the nature of ERP and the infrastructure needed to support...
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