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Best Practices of Spyware and Virus Removal
May 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This is the most streamlined document I can recommend to anyone who wants to improve their skills in cleaning an infected machine of spyware and viruses. I wrote it for junior technicians working...
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Information Systems Risk Factors, Risk Assessments, and Audit Planning Decisions
December 3, 2002, 12:00am PST
This paper examines systems risk factors identified by external auditors for a sample of their actual audit clients. Specifically, the paper studies two important areas of information systems...
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Preprocessing DNS Log Data for Effective Data Mining
February 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Domain Name Service (DNS) provides a critical function in directing Internet traffic. Defending DNS servers from bandwidth attacks is assisted by the ability to effectively mine DNS log data...
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The Ff - Family of Protocols for RFID-Privacy and Authentication
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ff is a family of lightweight and privacy-preserving authentication protocols for RFID-systems. Contrary to related work, Ff offers user-adjustable authentication and privacy without requiring a...
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Efficient RFID Data Imputation by Analyzing the Correlations of Monitored Objects
January 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
As a promising technology for tracing the product and human flows, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has received much attention within database community. However, the problem of missing...
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Performance Evaluation of Virtual Appliances
April 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization technology has become standard in many computing environments. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are now using virtual machines to deliver multiple software appliances. However,...
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Energy-Efficient Data Management for Sensor Networks: A Work-in-Progress Report
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper gives a status update of the Cougar Project, in which the authors' investigate a database approach to sensor networks: Clients "Program" the sensors through queries in a high-level...
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Quantifying Load Imbalance on Virtualized Enterprise Servers
January 20, 2010, 12:00am PST
Virtualization has been shown to be an attractive path to increase overall system resource utilization. The use of live Virtual Machine (VM) migration has enabled more effective sharing of system...
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Adapting the USRP as an Underwater Acoustic Modem
May 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes how the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) coupled with GNU Radio can be adapted for use as a configurable UnderWater Acoustic (UWA) modem. The USRP contains an Altera...
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Transport Layer - Congestion Control and QoS
October 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The resources being shared in the network include the bandwidth of the links, and the buffers on the routers or switches where packets are queued waiting to be transmitted over these links....
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QDMR: An Efficient QoS Dependent Multicast Routing Algorithm
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Many real-time applications, such as video conferencing, require the transmission of messages from a sender to multiple receivers subject to Quality-of-Service (QoS) delivery constraints (e.g....
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Six Sigma And Organizational Culture
August 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Six Sigma is a high-performance, data-driven approach to analyzing and solving the root causes of business problems. It ties the outputs of a business directly to marketplace requirements. At the...
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Brand Strategy Of Medium And Small Enterprises In China
May 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
With the increase of the opening degree of market and the acceleration of the marketing course, good opportunities for development will be given to Chinese enterprises. Meanwhile, the enterprises...
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A Multi-QoS Constraint Routing Protocol for Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks
March 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Image and video sensing data in the Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks make many requirements in the resource of bandwidth and energy. For the purpose of real-time transmission of multimedia...
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A Low Power CMOS CORDIC Processor Design for Wireless Telecommunication
May 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A CORDIC processor for wire telecommunication is integrated in a 0.5ìm CMOS technology. The CORDIC (Coordinate Rotation DIgital Computer) processor reduces the circuit complexity by performing a...
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Scheduler Vulnerabilities and Coordinated Attacks in Cloud Computing
November 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
In hardware virtualization a hypervisor provides multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) on a single physical system, each executing a separate operating system instance. The hypervisor schedules...
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Prototyping a Hybrid Main Memory Using a Virtual Machine Monitor
August 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors use a novel virtualization-based approach for computer architecture performance analysis. They present a case study analyzing a hypothetical hybrid main memory, which consists of a...
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Constructing Optimal IP Routing Tables
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) populates Internet backbone routers with routes or prefixes. The authors present an algorithm to locally compute (without any modification to BGP) equivalent...
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Functional Data Structures for Typed Racket
July 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Scheme provides excellent language support for programming in a functional style, but little in the way of library support. In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive library of functional...
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Sequence Traces for Object-Oriented Executions
July 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Researchers have developed a large variety of semantic models of object-oriented computations. These include object calculi as well as denotational, small-step operational, big-step operational,...
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Hygienic Macros for ACL2
May 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
ACL2 is a theorem prover for a purely functional subset of Common Lisp. It inherits Common Lisp's unhygienic macros, which are used pervasively to eliminate repeated syntactic patterns. The lack...
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Counting RFID Tags Efficiently and Anonymously
December 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has attracted much attention due to its variety of applications, e.g., inventory control and object tracking. One important problem in RFID systems...
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Efficient Continuous Scanning in RFID Systems
December 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
RFID is an emerging technology with many potential applications such as inventory management for supply chain. In practice, these applications often need a series of continuous scanning operations...
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Scheduler Vulnerabilities and Attacks in Cloud Computing
March 3, 2011, 12:00am PST
In hardware virtualization a hypervisor provides multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) on a single physical system, each executing a separate operating system instance. The hypervisor schedules...
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Random Linear Network Coding for Time-Division Duplexing: Queueing Analysis
March 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the performance of random linear network coding for time division duplexing channels with Poisson arrivals. They model the system as a bulk-service queue with variable bulk size....
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Approximation Algorithms for Key Management in Secure Multicast
April 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many data dissemination and publish-subscribe systems that guarantee the privacy and authenticity of the participants rely on symmetric key cryptography. An important problem in such a system is...
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Exploring the Multiple-GPU Design Space
February 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have been growing in popularity due to their impressive processing capabilities, and with general purpose programming languages such as NVIDIA's CUDA interface,...
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Eliminating Microarchitectural Dependency From Architectural Vulnerability
December 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) of a hardware structure is the probability that a fault in the structure will affect the output of a program. AVF captures both microarchitectural and...
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Exploring Novel Parallelization Technologies for 3-D Imaging Applications
July 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Multi-dimensional imaging techniques involve the processing of high resolution images commonly used in medical, civil and remote-sensing applications. A barrier commonly encountered in this class...
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The Effect of Input Data on Program Vulnerability
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The System Vulnerability Stack is a novel method to compute a system's vulnerability to transient faults. The vulnerability stack observes that a system consists of multiple independent layers...
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A Field Failure Analysis of Microprocessors Used in Information Systems
April 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Soft errors due to cosmic particles are a growing reliability threat to information systems. In this paper, a methodology is developed to analyze the effects of Single Event Upsets (SEU) and...
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Resource-Conscious Optimization of Cryptographic Algorithms on an Embedded Architecture
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cryptographic algorithms are widely used in embedded systems. Applications of cryptographic algorithms include credentials establishment (e.g., authentication), securing contents (e.g.,...
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An M/G/1 Queue Model for Multiple Applications on Storage Area Networks
January 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
Storage Area Networks (SAN) have become one of the most widely used solution for high performance enterprise storage applications. However, the infrastructures of SANs are very complex and varied...
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A Taxonomy to Enable Error Recovery and Correction in Software
May 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Over the past several years, reliability research has largely used the following taxonomy of errors: Undetected Errors (sometimes referred to as Silent Data Corruption, or SDC), Detected...
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A Code Layout Framework for Embedded Processors With Configurable Memory Hierarchy
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Several embedded processors now support configurable memory hierarchies to exploit application specific workload characteristics. To take advantage of memory reconfigurability, automated software...
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Stream Programming on the Blackfin Architecture
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Streaming applications can be characterized by high data parallelism, low data reuse and a high ratio between computations to memory accesses. Memory accesses can be accelerated if the are...
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Useful Techniques of Power-Law and Spectra in Modeling Internet Topology Structure
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Modeling of Internet topology has become the focus of Internet-related research fields recently, and was also the topic of this paper. First, the topology measuring results were collected and...
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Weaving Generic Programming and Traversal Performance
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The development of complex software requires the implementation of functions over a variety of recursively defined data structures. The design (and modeling) of structures can itself be difficult,...
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Understanding Differences Between Financial Distress And Bankruptcy
March 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For the most part, research purporting to address the issue of financial distress has actually studied samples of bankrupt companies. Financial distress and bankruptcy are different. In contrast,...
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ADUS: Adaptive Resource Allocation in Cluster Systems Under Heavy-Tailed and Bursty Workloads
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A large-scaled cluster system has been employed in various areas by offering pools of fundamental resources. How to effectively allocate the shared resources in a cluster system is a critical but...
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Impact of Mobile Transmitter Sources on Radio Frequency Wireless Energy Harvesting
September 25, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Wireless energy harvesting sensor networks constitute a new paradigm, where the motes deployed in the field are no longer constrained by the limited battery resource, but are able to re-charge...
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Paying for Piracy? an Analysis of One-Click Hosters' Controversial Reward Schemes
June 18, 2012, 12:00am PDT
One-Click Hosters (OCHs) such as Rapid share and now defunct Mega upload are popular services where users can upload and store large files. Up loaders can then share the files with friends or make...
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Clickonomics: Determining the Effect of Anti-Piracy Measures for One-Click Hosting
December 15, 2012, 12:00am PST
Piracy is a mass phenomenon on the Internet today. Various file sharing platforms offer free access to unauthorised copies of copyrighted works such as media content and software. Copyright...
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Securing Legacy Firefox Extensions With SENTINEL
April 1, 2013, 12:00am PDT
A poorly designed web browser extension with security vulnerability may expose the whole system to an attacker. Therefore, attacks directed at "Benign-but-buggy" extensions, as well as extensions...
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DISCLOSURE: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Servers Through Large-Scale NetFlow Analysis
January 7, 2013, 12:00am PST
Botnets continue to be a significant problem on the Internet. Accordingly, a great deal of research has focused on methods for detecting and mitigating the effects of botnets. Two of the primary...
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A Cross Layer Broadcast Protocol for Multihop Emergency Message Dissemination in Inter-Vehicle Communication
September 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In order to achieve cooperative driving in Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANET), broadcast transmission is usually used for disseminating safety-related information among vehicles. Nevertheless,...
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Quantized Static Output Feedback Stabilization of Discrete-Time Networked Control Systems
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors deal with the Static Output Feedback (SOF) stabilization for discrete-time Networked Control Systems (NCSs) with input and output signals quantization. A novel model of...
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Discovery Through Gossip
February 9, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors study randomized gossip-based processes in dynamic networks that are motivated by discovery processes in large-scale distributed networks like peer-to-peer or social networks. A...
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FReD: Automated Debugging Via Binary Search Through a Process Lifetime
December 20, 2012, 12:00am PST
Reversible debuggers have been developed at least since 1970. Such a feature is useful when the cause of a bug is close in time to the bug manifestation. When the cause is far back in time, one...
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A Generic Checkpoint-Restart Mechanism for Virtual Machines
December 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
It is common today to deploy complex software inside a Virtual Machine (VM). Snapshots provide rapid deployment, migration between hosts, dependability (fault tolerance), and security (insulating...
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ADUS: Adaptive Resource Allocation in Cluster Systems Under Heavy-Tailed and Bursty Workloads
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A large-scaled cluster system has been employed in various areas by offering pools of fundamental resources. How to effectively allocate the shared resources in a cluster system is a critical but...
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A New Waveband Switching Routing Algorithm in WDM Optical Networks
February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the technique of waveband switching and considers the problem of reducing the number of ports in optical cross-connects in WDM optical networks. Based on previous studies,...
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Quantized Feedback Control for Networked Control Systems Under Communication Constraints
December 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the feedback stabilization problem for Networked Control Systems (NCSs) with unbound process noise, where sensors and controllers are connected via noiseless digital...
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Insights Into User Behavior in Dealing With Internet Attacks
November 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
The Internet is a lucrative medium for criminals targeting Internet users. Most common Internet attacks require some form of user interaction such as clicking on an exploit link. Hence, the...
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Preventing Input Validation Vulnerabilities in Web Applications Through Automated Type Analysis
April 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Web applications have become an integral part of the daily lives of millions of users. Unfortunately, web applications are also frequently targeted by attackers, and critical vulnerabilities such...
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All-Termination(T)
January 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors introduce the All-Termination(T) problem: given a termination solver T and a collection of functions F, find every sub-set of the formal parameters to F whose consideration is...
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Superficially Substructural Types
March 17, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Many sub-structural type systems have been proposed for controlling access to shared state in higher-order languages. Central to these systems is the notion of a resource, which may be split into...
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A Separation Logic for Refining Concurrent Objects
July 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Fine-grained concurrent data structures are crucial for gaining performance from multiprocessing, but their design is a subtle art. Recent literature has made large strides in verifying these data...
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On the Capacity of Rate-Adaptive Packetized Wireless Communication Links Under Jamming
April 10, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Over the last decades, wireless communication proved to be an enabling technology to an increasingly large number of applications. The convenience of wireless and its support of mobility has...
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Active Flash: Performance-Energy Tradeoffs for Out-of-Core Processing on Non-Volatile Memory Devices
December 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors study the performance and energy tradeoffs involved in migrating data analysis into the flash device, a process they refer to as Active Flash. The Active Flash paradigm...
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Active Flash: Out-of-Core Data Analytics on Flash Storage
March 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Next generation science will increasingly come to rely on the ability to perform efficient, on-the-fly analytics of data generated by High-Performance Computing (HPC) simulations, modeling complex...
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HARD-DNS: Highly-Available Redundantly-Distributed DNS
October 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The DNS or Domain Name System is a critical piece of the Internet infrastructure. In recent times there have been numerous attacks on DNS, the Kaminsky attack being one of the more insidious ones....
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Distributed Lifetime Maximization Routing With Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
February 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of low-power and energy-constrained sensor nodes, and a fundamental challenge in the design of WSNs is to maximize the network lifetime. In WSNs, data...
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Novel Blind CFO Estimator for Uplink Interleaved OFDMA Systems
February 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
In Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) systems, closely spaced and overlapped sub-carriers are divided into groups and assigned to multiple users for simultaneous transmission....
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The Design and Implementation of Typed Scheme: From Scripts to Programs
June 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
When scripts in untyped languages grow into large programs, maintaining them becomes difficult. A lack of explicit type annotations in typical scripting language forces programmers to must (re)...
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Typing the Numeric Tower
November 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
In the past, the creators of numerical programs had to choose between simple expression of mathematical formulas and static type checking. While the Lisp family and its dynamically typed relatives...
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Fingerprint Core Point Detection Based on SVM and Complex Filter
September 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Core point is an essential feature of a fingerprint. Fingerprint core point detection is an important step for fingerprint matching and classification. This paper presents a two stages algorithm...
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Experimentation-Oriented Platform for Development and Evaluation of MANET Cross-Layer Protocols
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce a platform that simplifies the Development, performance Evaluation, and Comparison (DEC) of cross-layer protocols for Multi-hop Ad hoc NETworks (MANET). To the best of their...
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Heuristics for Lifetime Maximization in Wireless Sensor Networks With Multiple Mobile Sinks
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates heuristics to control and coordinate the concurrent movement of multiple sinks for lifetime maximization in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The authors have developed a...
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Steganographic Communication in Ordered Channels
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors focus on estimating the amount of information that can be embedded in the sequencing of packets in ordered channels. Ordered channels, e.g. TCP, rely on sequence numbers...
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Control Channel Jamming: Resilience and Identification of Traitors
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Signaling and control channels are essential to the operation of wireless communication networks. Such networks are constrained by the limited radio-frequency bandwidth and energy available to the...
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iPoint: A Platform-Independent Passive Information Kiosk for Cell Phones
April 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce iPoint, a passive device that can interact and deliver information to virtually any mobile phone equipped with a WiFi network interface and a camera. The iPoint does not need...
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WiZi-Cloud: Application-Transparent Dual ZigBee-WiFi Radios for Low Power Internet Access
January 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
The high density ofWiFi Access Points and large unlicensed RF bandwidth over which they operate makes them good candidates to alleviate cellular network's limitations. However, maintaining...
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An Enhanced EM/SAGE-Based H-Infinity Channel Estimator for MIMO-OFDM Systems
October 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a low-complexity and robust H-infinity channel estimator for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. To lessen the...
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Two-Level Priority Real-Time Scheduling Strategy for Node System in Wireless Sensor Network
March 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Emerging applications such as forest fire monitoring have increasing demands on WSN to transmit data in real-time. In order to ensure real-time data transmission, it requires that the operating...
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Improving TCP Performance Over Networks With Wireless Components Using
September 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
TCP error control mechanism lacks the ability to detect with precision the nature of potential errors during communication. It is only capable of detecting the results of the errors, namely, that...
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On Coding for Delay - New Approaches Based on Network Coding in Networks With Large Latency
February 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
In networks with large latency, feedback about received packets may lag considerably the transmission of the original packets, limiting the feedback's usefulness. Moreover, time duplex constraints...
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A Method for Differentially Coherent Detection of OFDM Signals on Doppler-Distorted Channels
August 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Doppler distortion causes inter-carrier interference which prevents the use of differentially coherent detection in OFDM systems. To recover this efficient detection method, the authors propose to...
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Capacity Scaling Laws for Underwater Networks
November 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper presents upper bounds on the transport capacity of underwater acoustic networks with nodes deployed arbitrarily in a unit area disk. The authors study three cases of interest: an...
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Random Linear Network Coding for Time-Division Duplexing: Field Size Considerations
March 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the effect of the field size on the performance of random linear network coding for time division duplexing channels is proposed. In particular, they study the case of node...
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