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LTE and WiMAX Comparison
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Two emerging technologies, the IEEE 802.16 WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) and the 3GPP LTE (Third Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evolution) aim to provide mobile...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Availability in Global Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The recent popularity of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems for file sharing has led to increased demand for higher data availability from such systems. Measurements of popular P2P systems indicate that a...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Dynamic Scheduling of PCF Traffic in an Unstable Wireless LAN
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless LANs are increasingly popular and are being used for a wide variety of applications. In order to accommodate the demands of real-time services and multimedia based applications, the...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Government Support For The Terrorism Insurance Industry: Where Do We Go From Here?
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Federal government support for the terrorism insurance industry has a very brief history. The terrorist attack(s) on September 11, 2001, radically altered the way the U.S. insurance industry...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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Government Support For Terrorism Insurance
June 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the recent market for terrorism insurance, detailing the history and goals of the United States Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in all its iterations. Reinsurance,...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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Measures for Maximal Utilization of a Secure Wireless Sensor Network
June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors come across a lot of scenarios where the authors wish to monitor every occurrence of a particular event remotely. For example, consider a battlefield wherein the footsteps of the enemy...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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Dancing With The Enemy: Can China Be A Viable Alternative For U.S. Investors?
March 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the impact of Global Financial Crisis on the United States of America vs. China. Specifically, the authors contend that despite the relatively higher risks related to investing...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Protecting Against Rare Event Failures in Archival Systems
September 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Digital archives are growing rapidly, necessitating stronger reliability measures than RAID to avoid data loss from device failure. Mirroring, a popular solution, is too expensive over time. The...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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Building Flexible, Fault-Tolerant Flash-Based Storage Systems
September 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Adding flash memory to the storage hierarchy has recently gained a great deal of attention in both industry and academia. Decreasing cost, low power utilization and improved performance has...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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A Spin-Up Saved Is Energy Earned: Achieving Power-Efficient, Erasure-Coded Storage
September 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Storage accounts for a significant amount of a data center's ever increasing power budget. As a consequence, energy consumption has joined performance and reliability as a dominant metric in...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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On the Possibility of Small, Service-Free Disk-Based Storage Systems
January 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
For many storage providers, the cost of providing service calls exceeds the costs of the hardware being serviced. In this paper, the authors show that zero maintenance, small disk arrays are too...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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Protecting Data Against Early Disk Failures
February 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
Disk drives are known to fail at a higher rate during their first year of operation than during the remaining years of their useful lifetime. The authors propose to use the free space that...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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LH*RS P2P: A Scalable Distributed Data Structure for P2P Environment
June 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The concept of a Scalable Distributed Data Structure (SDDS) appeared in 1993. It was intended for multicomputers and more specifically for networks of interconnected workstations. Some SDDS nodes...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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Generalized Reed Solomon Codes for Erasure Correction in SDDS
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Scalable Distributed Data Structures (SDDS) need scalable availability. This can be provided through replication, which is storage intensive, or through the use of Erasure Correcting Codes (ECC)...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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When MTTDLs Are Not Good Enough: Providing Better Estimates of Disk Array Reliability
November 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
While Mean Time To Data Loss (MTTDL) provides an easy way to estimate the reliability of redundant disk arrays, it fails to take into account the relatively short lifetime of these arrays. The...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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Optimizing Galois Field Arithmetic for Diverse Processor Architectures and Applications
June 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Galois field implementations are central to the design of many reliable and secure systems, with many systems implementing them in software. The two most common Galois field operations are...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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Self-Adjusting Two-Failure Tolerant Disk Arrays
November 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
While flash and Storage Class Memory (SCM) technologies stand to replace magnetic disk technology as the mainstay for high end applications, the sheer amount of data to be stored, the attractive...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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Improving Disk Array Reliability Through Expedited Scrubbing
May 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Disk scrubbing periodically scans the contents of a disk array to detect the presence of irrecoverable read errors and reconstitute the contents of the lost blocks using the built-in redundancy of...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Optimizing Galois Field Arithmetic for Diverse Processor Architectures
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Galois field implementations are central to the design of many reliable and secure systems, with many systems implementing them in software. The two most common Galois field operations are...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Ensuring Data Survival on Solid-State Storage Devices
June 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The emergence of more reliable, often much faster solid-stage storage devices is revolutionizing most aspects of data storage technology. Here the paper addresses the impact of these new storage...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Optimizing Galois Field Arithmetic for Diverse Processor Architectures
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Galois field implementations are central to the design of many reliable and secure systems, with many systems implementing them in software. The two most common Galois field operations are...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Improving Disk Array Reliability Through Expedited Scrubbing
May 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Disk scrubbing periodically scans the contents of a disk array to detect the presence of irrecoverable read errors and reconstitute the contents of the lost blocks using the built-in redundancy of...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Self-Adjusting Two-Failure Tolerant Disk Arrays
November 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
While flash and Storage Class Memory (SCM) technologies stand to replace magnetic disk technology as the mainstay for high end applications, the sheer amount of data to be stored, the attractive...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Optimizing Galois Field Arithmetic for Diverse Processor Architectures and Applications
June 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Galois field implementations are central to the design of many reliable and secure systems, with many systems implementing them in software. The two most common Galois field operations are...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
When MTTDLs Are Not Good Enough: Providing Better Estimates of Disk Array Reliability
November 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
While Mean Time To Data Loss (MTTDL) provides an easy way to estimate the reliability of redundant disk arrays, it fails to take into account the relatively short lifetime of these arrays. The...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Generalized Reed Solomon Codes for Erasure Correction in SDDS
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Scalable Distributed Data Structures (SDDS) need scalable availability. This can be provided through replication, which is storage intensive, or through the use of Erasure Correcting Codes (ECC)...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
LH*RS P2P: A Scalable Distributed Data Structure for P2P Environment
June 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The concept of a Scalable Distributed Data Structure (SDDS) appeared in 1993. It was intended for multicomputers and more specifically for networks of interconnected workstations. Some SDDS nodes...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Protecting Data Against Early Disk Failures
February 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
Disk drives are known to fail at a higher rate during their first year of operation than during the remaining years of their useful lifetime. The authors propose to use the free space that...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
On the Possibility of Small, Service-Free Disk-Based Storage Systems
January 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
For many storage providers, the cost of providing service calls exceeds the costs of the hardware being serviced. In this paper, the authors show that zero maintenance, small disk arrays are too...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
A Spin-Up Saved Is Energy Earned: Achieving Power-Efficient, Erasure-Coded Storage
September 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Storage accounts for a significant amount of a data center's ever increasing power budget. As a consequence, energy consumption has joined performance and reliability as a dominant metric in...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Building Flexible, Fault-Tolerant Flash-Based Storage Systems
September 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Adding flash memory to the storage hierarchy has recently gained a great deal of attention in both industry and academia. Decreasing cost, low power utilization and improved performance has...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Protecting Against Rare Event Failures in Archival Systems
September 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Digital archives are growing rapidly, necessitating stronger reliability measures than RAID to avoid data loss from device failure. Mirroring, a popular solution, is too expensive over time. The...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Dancing With The Enemy: Can China Be A Viable Alternative For U.S. Investors?
March 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the impact of Global Financial Crisis on the United States of America vs. China. Specifically, the authors contend that despite the relatively higher risks related to investing...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Measures for Maximal Utilization of a Secure Wireless Sensor Network
June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors come across a lot of scenarios where the authors wish to monitor every occurrence of a particular event remotely. For example, consider a battlefield wherein the footsteps of the enemy...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Government Support For Terrorism Insurance
June 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the recent market for terrorism insurance, detailing the history and goals of the United States Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in all its iterations. Reinsurance,...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Government Support For The Terrorism Insurance Industry: Where Do We Go From Here?
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Federal government support for the terrorism insurance industry has a very brief history. The terrorist attack(s) on September 11, 2001, radically altered the way the U.S. insurance industry...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Dynamic Scheduling of PCF Traffic in an Unstable Wireless LAN
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless LANs are increasingly popular and are being used for a wide variety of applications. In order to accommodate the demands of real-time services and multimedia based applications, the...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Availability in Global Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The recent popularity of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems for file sharing has led to increased demand for higher data availability from such systems. Measurements of popular P2P systems indicate that a...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
LTE and WiMAX Comparison
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Two emerging technologies, the IEEE 802.16 WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) and the 3GPP LTE (Third Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evolution) aim to provide mobile...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Ensuring Data Survival on Solid-State Storage Devices
June 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The emergence of more reliable, often much faster solid-stage storage devices is revolutionizing most aspects of data storage technology. Here the paper addresses the impact of these new storage...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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