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Comparative Study of Real-Time Multimedia Transmission Over Multi-Homing Transport Protocols
September 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The availability of multimedia applications suitable for deployment using 3G and GPRS networks has led to a requirement for end-to-end quality of service. More efficient mechanisms are needed in...
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SEA-LABS: A Wireless Sensor Network for Sustained Monitoring of Coral Reefs
November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper describes SEA-LABS (Sensor Exploration Apparatus utilizing Low-power Aquatic Broadcasting System), a low-cost, power-efficient Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) for sustained, real-time...
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Multicast in Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
April 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors study high-throughput multicast solutions for Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN). Two techniques in WMN design are considered for combating wireless bandwidth limitations and wireless...
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Mobile Agent Code Updating and Authentication Protocol for Code-Centric RFID System
August 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Traditional Identification-centric RFID System (IRS) is designed to provide services of object identification/tracing/locating, but it has some shortcomings when encountering a dynamic environment...
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Interactive Goal Model Analysis Applied - Systematic Procedures Versus Ad Hoc Analysis
November 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Intentional modeling, capturing the goals of stakeholders, has been proposed as a means of early system elicitation and design for an enterprise, focusing on social and strategic requirements. It...
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Calibrating Wireless Sensor Network Simulation Models With Real-World Experiments
March 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the energy-efficiency and service characteristics of a recently developed energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks in simulation and on a real sensor hardware...
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Humpty Dumpty: Putting IBGP Back Together Again
May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Humpty Dumpty is the anthropomorphic nursery-rhyme egg broken into many pieces. Similarly, the authors have many pieces of measurement data to represent the current iBGP state. However, unlike the...
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A DSL for Explaining Probabilistic Reasoning
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a new focus in language design where languages provide constructs that not only describe the computation of results, but also produce explanations of how and why those results...
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Contrail: Enabling Decentralized Social Networks on Smartphones
December 5, 2011, 12:00am PST
Mobile devices are increasingly used for social networking applications, where data is shared between devices belonging to different users. Today, such applications are implemented as centralized...
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SIPHoc: Efficient SIP Middleware for Ad Hoc Networks
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) offer a flexible way to connect mobile devices to build complex infrastructures. A key issue in MANETs is session set up and management since, unlike in...
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Identify P2P Traffic by Inspecting Data Transfer Behaviour
March 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Classifying network traffic according to its applications is important to a broad range of network areas. Since new applications, especially P2P applications, no longer use well-known fixed port...
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Adaptive Multi-Topology IGP Based Traffic Engineering With Near-Optimal Network Performance
March 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present an intelligent Multi-Topology IGP (MT-IGP) based intra-domain Traffic Engineering (TE) scheme that is able to handle unexpected traffic fluctuations with...
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Efficient Web Services Event Reporting and Notifications by Task Delegation
February 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
Web Services are an XML technology recently viewed as capable of being used for network management. A key aspect of WS in this domain is event reporting. WS-based research in this area has...
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Telecom Network and Service Management: An Operator Survey
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is hard to know which research problems in network management, the authors should focus their attention on. To remedy this situation, they have surveyed fifteen different telecom operators on...
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Autonomic Management for Personalized Handover Decisions in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
April 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The computation of good and optimal handover decisions is a significant problem in a heterogeneous network environment. This is exacerbated when the goal is to provide personalized services for...
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iSOAMM: An Independent SOA Maturity Model
May 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The implementation of an enterprise-wide Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a complex task. In most cases, evolutional approaches are used to handle this complexity. Maturity models are a...
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Stabilized Edge-to-Edge Aggregate Flow Control
July 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a distributed flow control scheme which achieves weighted max-min fair bandwidth allocation among all source-destination pairs on a per-aggregate basis within...
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Multiparty Authorization Framework for Data Sharing in Online Social Networks
June 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have experienced tremendous growth in recent years and become a de facto portal for hundreds of millions of Internet users. These OSNs offer attractive means for...
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Performance Evaluation and Enhancement of Surface Coverage Relay Protocol
May 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Area coverage protocols aim at turning off redundant sensor nodes while ensuring full coverage of the area by the remaining active nodes. Connectivity of the active nodes subset must also be...
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An Ultrasonic Sensor Based Low-Power Acoustic Modem for Underwater Communication in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
Applications of underwater sensor networks involve environmental monitoring, disaster prevention, and resource detection. As the importance of these applications has recently grown, underwater...
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Remedy: Network-Aware Steady State VM Management for Data Centers
May 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Steady state VM-management in data centers should be network-aware so that VM migrations do not degrade network performance of other flows in the network, and if required, a VM migration can be...
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VMFlow: Leveraging VM Mobility to Reduce Network Power Costs in Data Centers
April 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Networking costs play an important role in the overall costs of a modern data center. Network power, for example, has been estimated at 10-20% of the overall data center power consumption....
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Trust Model for Optimized Cloud Services
March 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing with its inherent advantages draws attention for business critical applications, but concurrently expects high level of trust in cloud service providers. Reputation-based trust is...
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Implementation and Evaluation of Coupled Congestion Control for Multipath TCP
July 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is an experimental protocol currently under standardization in the IETF. MPTCP allows to use multiple TCP connections for one data transmission if at least one of the...
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Efficient Assignment of Multiple e-MBMS Sessions Towards LTE
July 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One of the major prerequisites for Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks is the mass provision of multimedia services to mobile users. To this end, Evolved - Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service...
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Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on the Bird Flocking Behavior
October 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recently, performance controlled wireless sensor networks have attracted significant interest with the emergence of mission-critical applications (e.g. health monitoring). Performance control can...
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Multi-Agent Topologies Over WSANs in the Context of Fault Tolerant Supervision
December 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) has attracted considerable attention in the last few years. They are distributed networks of sensors and actuators nodes, which act together in order...
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A Measurement Study of Bandwidth Estimation in IEEE 802.11g Wireless LANs Using the DCF
May 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors present results from an extensive measurement study of wireless bandwidth estimation in IEEE 802.11 WLANs using the distributed coordination function. They show that a...
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A Deep Dive Into the LISP Cache and What ISPs Should Know About It
April 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Due to scalability issues that the current Internet is facing, the research community has re-discovered the locator/ID split paradigm. As the name suggests, this paradigm is based on the idea of...
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Kevlar: A Flexible Infrastructure for Wide-Area Collaborative Applications
October 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
While web services ensure interoperability and extensibility for networked applications, they also complicate the deployment of highly collaborative systems, such as virtual reality environments...
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Resolving Performance Anomaly Using ARF-Aware TCP
September 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose ARF-aware TCP that resolves the performance anomaly in 802.11 WLAN networks. Performance anomaly is a network symptom that fairness among the nodes is broken...
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Exploring the Design Space for Network Protocol Stacks on Special - Purpose Embedded Systems
September 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many special-purpose embedded systems such as automobiles and aircrafts consist of multiple embedded controllers connected through embedded network interconnect. Such network interconnects have...
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Video Broadcasting to Heterogeneous Mobile Devices
May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the problem of broadcasting multiple scalable video streams to heterogeneous mobile devices, which have limited energy budgets. They show that scalable video streams should be...
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Availability Analysis of GMPLS Connections Based on Physical Network Topology
July 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a study of connection availability in GMPLS over Optical Transport Networks (OTN) taking into account different network topologies. Two basic path protection schemes are...
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CHAP: Enabling Efficient Hardware-Based Multiple Hash Schemes for IP Lookup
March 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Building a high performance IP lookup engine remains a challenge due to increasingly stringent throughput requirements and the growing size of IP tables. An emerging approach for IP lookup is the...
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Distributed and Secure Access Control in P2P Databases
August 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The intent of Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) is to share as much data as possible. However, in many applications leveraging sensitive data, users demand adequate mechanisms to restrict the...
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Why Do Upgrades Fail And What Can We Do About It?
November 24, 2009, 12:00am PST
Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading cause of upgrade failures....
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TIUPAM: A Framework for Trustworthiness-Centric Information Sharing
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Information is essential to decision making. Nowadays, decision makers are often overwhelmed with large volumes of information, some of which may be inaccurate, incorrect, inappropriate,...
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Incorporating Protection Mechanisms in the Dynamic Multi-Layer Routing Schemes
November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
In the next generation backbone networks, IP/MPLS over optical networks, the ability to maintain an acceptable level of reliability has become crucial since a failure can result in a loss of...
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WReX: A Scalable Middleware Architecture to Enable XML Caching for Web-Services
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Web service caching, i.e., caching the responses of XML web service requests, is needed for designing scalable web service architectures. Such caching of dynamic content requires maintaining the...
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PWave: A Multi-Source Multi-Sink Anycast Routing Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are generally deployed to support specific missions or applications such as habitat monitoring, object tracking. Traffic are generated from a number of sensing...
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Enterprise Modeling for Business Intelligence
November 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Business Intelligence (BI) software aims to enable business users to easily access and analyze relevant enterprise information so that they can make timely and fact-based decisions. However,...
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ADP: Making the HR Experience Better
December 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
In every organization, business goals and culture drive HR strategy. Although each organization is unique, approaches for supporting HR strategy will follow two fundamentally different tracks. The...
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Drowning in Spreadsheets
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Spreadsheet applications such as Microsoft Excel are widely used within most organisations and with good reason. They're powerful, easy to use, and they allow users to perform calculations quickly...
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Energy-Efficient Implementation of ECDH Key Exchange for Wireless Sensor Networks
July 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are playing a vital role in an ever-growing number of applications ranging from environmental surveillance over medical monitoring to home automation. Since WSNs...
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Market-Based Resource Allocation for Distributed Computing
July 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Market-based resource allocation is expected to be an effective mechanism to allocate resources in a cloud computing environment, where the resources are virtualized and delivered to users as...
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The Bottom Line on Enterprise Document Management
May 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Rapid return on investment (ROI) and significant reduction of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) are the magic words that organizations want to hear when considering a new software solution. One of the...
Provided by Advanced Processing & Imaging
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An Introduction to Software Testing
September 10, 2003, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an introduction to software testing. It serves as a tutorial for developers who are new to formal testing of software, and as a reminder of some finer points for experienced...
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