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        <title><![CDATA[Network Coding-Based Cooperative ARQ Scheme for VANETs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this paper, the authors introduce a novel network coding-based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) that use cooperative Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ)...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[An Energy-Centric Handover Decision Algorithm for the Integrated LTE Macrocell - Femtocell Network]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Femtocells are attracting a fast increasing interest now-a-days, as a promising solution to improve indoor coverage and system capacity. Due to the short transmit-receive distance, femtocells can...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Simulation Modelling Tool for Distributed Virtual Environments]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Distributed Virtual Environments simulate the behavior and activities of a great number of users interacting in a virtual world over a wide area network. The size of the virtual worlds and the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 03:02:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Methodology for Public Administrators for Selecting Between Open Source and Proprietary Software]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The public sector needs to change over to communicating digitally. This development makes great demands both on work processes in the public sector and on the Information Technology systems, on...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Software Integration Approach for Designing and Assessing Dependable Embedded Systems]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Embedded systems increasingly entail complex issues of HardWare - SoftWare (HW - SW) co-design. As the number and range of SW functional components typically exceed the finite HW resources, a...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fast Distributed Dominating Set Based Routing in Large Scale MANETs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hierarchical routing techniques have long been known to increase network scalability by constructing a virtual backbone. Even though MANETs have no physical backbone, a virtual backbone can be...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Secure Log Management for Privacy Assurance in Electronic Communications]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this paper, the authors examine logging security in the environment of electronic communication providers. They review existing security threat models for system logging and they extend these...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Secure Neighbor Discovery and Wormhole Localization in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Neighbor discovery is an important part of many protocols for wireless ad hoc networks, including localization and routing. When neighbor discovery fails, communications and protocols performance...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:44:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Referential Integrity Quality Metrics]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Referential integrity is an essential global constraint in a relational database, that maintains it in a complete and consistent state. In this paper, the authors assume the database may violate...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:43:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Towards Mobile Intelligence: Learning From GPS History Data for Collaborative Recommendation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With the increasing popularity of location-based services, the authors have accumulated a lot of location data on the Web. In this paper, the authors are interested in answering two popular...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:21:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Performance Improvement in Wireless Networks Using Cross-Layer ARQ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper presents a novel cross-layer approach (LLE-TCP) designed for performance enhancement of TCP over a large variety of wireless networks. LLE-TCP avoids TCP ACK packet transmission over...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:48:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Java Fast Sockets: Enabling High-Speed Java Communications on High Performance Clusters]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper presents Java Fast Sockets (JFS), an optimized Java socket implementation on clusters for high performance computing. Current socket libraries do not efficiently support high-speed...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:06:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[FEC-Based AP Downlink Transmission Schemes for Multiple Flows: Combining the Reliability and Throughput Enhancement of Intra-And Inter-Flow Coding]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors consider downlink Access Point (AP) networks and the corresponding reliable transmission schemes. It is well known that one can protect the network traffic against packet erasures by...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:10:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[An Optical Burst Reordering Model for Time-Based and Random Selection Assembly Strategies]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Contention resolution schemes in Optical Burst Switched networks (OBS) as well as contention avoidance schemes delay burst delivery and change the burst arrival sequence. The burst arrival...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:50:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Bandwidth and Effective Hit Optimal Cache Scheme for Wireless Data Access Networks With Client Injected Updates]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/a-bandwidth-and-effective-hit-optimal-cache-scheme-for-wireless-data-access-networks-with-client-injected-updates/5341478]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this paper, the authors propose an optimal cache replacement policy for data access applications in wireless networks where data updates are injected from all the clients. The goal of the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:28:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Storing, Reasoning, and Querying OPM-Compliant Scientific Workflow Provenance Using Relational Databases]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Provenance, the metadata that records the derivation history of scientific results, is essential in scientific workflows to support the reproducibility of scientific discovery, result...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:18:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[An IP Passing Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks With Network Fragmentation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When a vehicle is moving fast in a highway, how to effectively reduce the handoff delay and maintain the connectivity of the vehicle to the Internet is an important issue. The existing IP passing...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:03:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On Adopting Content-Based Routing in Service-Oriented Architectures]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/on-adopting-content-based-routing-in-service-oriented-architectures/5340804]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Two requirements of SOAs are the need for a global discovery agency, which assists requesters in finding their required services, and the need for new interaction paradigms, which overcome the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:39:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Modelling of a Self-Led Critical Friend Topology in Inter-Cooperative Grid Communities]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For decades, much work has been done to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of job sharing amongst available computational resources. Resources can be organized into a variety of topologies,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:04:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Exploring Decentralized Dynamic Scheduling for Grids and Clouds Using the Community-Aware Scheduling Algorithm]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Job scheduling strategies have been studied for decades in a variety of scenarios. Due to the new characteristics of the emerging computational systems, such as the grid and cloud, meta-scheduling...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Timing Jitter Induced by Intrachannel Interactions in Optical Fiber Communication Systems Using CFG as Dispersion Compensator]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this paper, a theoretical model is proposed for the analysis of timing jitter induced by intra-channel interactions in optical fiber communication systems using Chirped Fiber Grating (CFG) as...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Performance Evaluation of Wireless Sensor Network With Hybrid Channel Access Mechanism]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this paper, a hybrid channel access mechanism is proposed for the wireless sensor network that considers the channel access procedure of IEEE 802.15.4 and combines the binary exponential...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Term Rewriting Technique for Decision Graphs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors provide an automatic verification for a fragment of FOL quantifier-free logic with zero, successor and equality. They use BDD representation of such formulas and to verify them, they...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:48:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Utilizing Dynamic Spectrum Leasing for Cognitive Radios in 802.11-Based Wireless Networks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) is proposed to deal with the growing shortage of available leased spectrum for wireless communication. The authors investigate a subset of DSA referred to as Dynamic...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:56:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Compressive Sampling Based Differential Detection for UWB Impulse Radio Signals]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/compressive-sampling-based-differential-detection-for-uwb-impulse-radio-signals/4444217]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Non-coherent detectors significantly contribute to the practical realization of the UltraWide-Band (UWB) Impulse-Radio (IR) concept, in that they allow avoiding channel estimation and provide...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Looking Ahead in Pervasive Computing: Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Cyber - Physical Convergence]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The physical environment is becoming more and more saturated with computing and communication entities that interact among themselves, as well as with users: virtually everything will be enabled...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Achieving Distributed User Access Control in Sensor Networks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[User access control in sensor networks defines a process of granting user an access right to the stored information. It is essential for future real sensor network deployment in which sensors may...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hash-Based Proximity Clustering for Efficient Load Balancing in Heterogeneous DHT Networks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Distributed Hash Table (DHT) networks based on consistent hashing functions have an inherent load uneven distribution problem. The objective of DHT load balancing is to balance the workload of the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Long-Term Availability Prediction for Groups of Volunteer Resources]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Volunteer computing uses the free resources in Internet and Intranet environments for large-scale computation and storage. Currently, 70 applications use over 12 Peta-FLOPS of computing power from...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Distributed applications use Bloom filters to transmit large sets in a compact form. However, attackers can easily disrupt these applications by using or advertising saturated filters. In this...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Some ad hoc network scenarios are characterized by frequent partitions and intermittent connectivity. Hence, existing ad hoc routing schemes that assume that an end-to-end path exists from a...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Wireless reprogramming of a sensor network is useful for uploading new code or for changing the functionality of existing code. Reprogramming may be done multiple times during a node's lifetime...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[The ZigBee-based bioimpedance device presented in this paper allows reliable, low-power, and real-time monitoring of abdominal fatness. The feasibility of the presented analog front-end has been...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper has analyzed and verified the autonomous information requirement of near-miss accidents and has investigated the feasibility and performance of using a Zigbee RFID sensor network to...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper presents the design of a localization scheme in wireless sensor networks (WSN) for cattle monitoring applications in grazing fields. No additional hardware was required for distance...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Wireless Sensor - Actuator Networks (WSANs) greatly enhance the existing wireless sensor network architecture by introducing powerful and possibly even mobile actuators. The actuators work with...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[A method of on-ground simulation of optical links for free-space communications by Fourier-transform, image magnification and wavefront sampling with limited apertures was proposed. An optical...]]></description>
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