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Providing Memory QoS Guarantees for Real-Time Applications
June 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Nowadays, systems often integrate a variety of applications whose service requirements are heterogeneous. Consequently, systems must be able to concurrently serve applications which rely on...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Black Hole Attack Injection in Ad Hoc Networks
May 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Ad hoc networks exploit the processing, storage and wireless communication capabilities of mobile devices to create spontaneous and low-cost self-configuring networks. Despite the promises offered...
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Patterns And Barriers For Innovation And R&D Cooperation Between Argentine And Spanish Firms
February 3, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines co-operative innovation and Research and Development (R&D) behaviour between Argentine and Spanish firms. Based on theoretical perspectives from the literature, the authors...
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Understanding Knowledge Sharing In Organizations: Further Questions Of Research Through A Social Cognitive Perspective
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Enabling knowledge sharing among individuals in organizations is fundamental to innovation and organizational success. Nevertheless, despite receiving great attention among both academics and...
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XtratuM: A Hypervisor for Safety Critical Embedded Systems
September 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
XtratuM is a hypervisor designed to meet safety critical requirements. Initially designed for x86 architectures (version 2.0), it has been strongly redesigned for SPARC v8 architecture and...
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Real-Time Embedded Architecture for Advanced Service Robots
May 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In most advanced real-time control applications such as service robots, the tasks have different criticality, flexible timing constraints and variable execution time. For instance, autonomous...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Predicting Success in the Computer Science Degree Using ROC Analysis
May 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT
ROC Curves (Receiver Operating Characteristic) are remarkably useful in medical decision-making. Given a common measurable characteristic, with a continuous output in all the beings of a group,...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Experimentation in Software Engineering: Bridging the Gap Between Educators and Researchers
May 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Currently, a great number of controlled experiments are being executed to evaluate the effectiveness of methods and/or techniques in academic environments. Most of these experiments have as the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Real-Time Embedded Architecture for Improving Pervasive Robot Services
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The integration of embedded real-time control systems with the physical world via sensors and actuators (pervasive computing systems) is creating a nascent infrastructure for a technical, economic...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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A Requirements Engineering Approach for the Development of Multi-Agent Systems
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents RE4Gaia, which is a requirements modeling approach for the development of multi-agent systems that extend the Gaia methodology. The approach focuses on dealing with the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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White Papers
Flexible Real-Time Embedded Architecture for Advanced Service Robots
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In most advanced real-time control applications such as service robots, the tasks have different criticality, flexible timing constraints and variable execution time. For instance, autonomous...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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On the Convergence Between Wireless Sensor Network and RFID: Industrial Environment
July 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The convergence between Wireless Sensor Network and RFID technology enables the development of flexible and integrated architectures that could currently represent a competitive solution for...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Coarse-Grained Resilience Benchmarking Using Logic Score of Preferences: Ad Hoc Networks as a Case Study
March 13, 2011, 12:00am PST
Ad hoc networks are self-configuring multi-hop wireless networks whose routing protocols are extremely sensitive to the occurrence of accidental and malicious faults. However, the behaviour...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Assessing the Effectiveness of IEEE 802.11e in Multi-Hop Mobile Network Environments
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The IEEE 802.11e technology is receiving much interest due to the promising enhancements it will offer to wireless local area networks in terms of QoS support. Until now, research has focused on...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Quality Assessment Metrics Vs. PSNR Under Packet Loss Scenarios in MANET Wireless Networks
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
It is well known that PSNR does not always rank quality of an image or video sequence in the same way that a human being. There are many other factors considered by the human visual system and the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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On the Interaction Between IEEE 802.11e and Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The upcoming IEEE 802.11e standard was developed to offer QoS capabilities to WLAN, offering significative improvements to multimedia traffic. MANETs will also benefit from this new technology...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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How Does Energy Consumption Impact Performance in Bluetooth?
June 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors investigate the power characteristics of the Bluetooth technology when supporting low-power modes. They provide accurate power consumption measurements for different...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Evaluating the Goodness of MANETs Performance Results Obtained With the Ns-2 Simulator
October 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The development of new protocols and applications for Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANET) requires a thorough testing before their deployment in a real environment. Testing is typically based on...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Using Distributed Admission Control to Support Multimedia Applications in MANET Environments
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
MANET environments suffer from changing connectivity conditions and radio contention among stations that conform it. Despite the several on-going endeavors, no simple and effective solution has...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Supporting Soft Real-Time Services in MANETs Using Distributed Admission Control and IEEE 802.11e Technology
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
QoS support in MANETs is a hard and challenging task due to the intrinsic complexities of these networks. In this paper, the authors present a solution called DACME to support real-time services...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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MAYA: A Tool for Wireless Mesh Networks Management
July 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) require specialized management software to reduce the setup and configuration time. Although wireless routers can be configured independently, some parameters, like...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Multipath Extensions to the DYMO Routing Protocol
July 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Multipath routing is a technique that can improve performance, especially in mobile ad hoc networks. Due to traffic dispersion it can perform load-balancing, minimize the energy consumed by nodes...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Evaluating the Performance of Real Time Videoconferencing in Ad Hoc Networks Through Emulation
February 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
The validation of new video protocols and applications for mobile ad hoc networks in a real environment is an important task. In this paper, the authors present Castadiva, a test-bed architecture...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Towards Benchmarking Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks
January 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) establish a new, quick and low-cost alternative to provide communications when deploying a fixed infrastructure that could result prohibitive in terms of either time...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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On Selecting Representative Faultloads to Guide the Evaluation of Ad Hoc Networks
March 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
Ad hoc networks are threatened by a wide variety of accidental and malicious faults. This fact limits the practical exploitation of ad hoc networks. In consequence, apart from enforcing the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Using Performance, Energy Consumption, and Resilience Experimental Measures to Evaluate Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks
June 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Ad hoc networks are gaining momentum in contexts of use where the rapid deployment of dynamic networks is critical. It is well-known that these networks are threatened by a variety of accidental...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Attack Injection to Support the Evaluation of Ad Hoc Networks
August 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The increasing emergence of mobile computing devices seamlessly providing wireless communication capabilities opens a wide range of new application domains for ad hoc networks. However, the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Resilience-Driven Parameterisation of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols: Olsrd as a Case Study
July 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Ad hoc routing protocols are threatened by a variety of accidental and malicious faults that limit their use. Although a number of well-known strategies exist to enhance the performance and...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Key Factors for Attack Injection on MANETs: Towards Enhancing Experiment Representativeness
March 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Due to their unique characteristics, Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are exposed to different threats. Consequently, their confident use requires of the conception of methodologies to assess their...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Towards Benchmarking the Performance and Dependability of Ad Hoc Networks in Presence of Attacks
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ad hoc networks are multi-hop wireless networks where all nodes cooperatively maintain network connectivity without fixed infrastructures and centralized administration. Many researches have been...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Attack Injection for Performance and Dependability Assessment of Ad Hoc Networks
June 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ad hoc networks are wireless, self-configuring and self-maintaining networks that allow dispensing of fixed infrastructures by relying on nodes cooperation for providing packet routing. Their...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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An Attack Injection Approach to Evaluate the Robustness of Ad Hoc Networks
September 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ad hoc networks constitute a quick and cheap alternative to provide communications when deploying a fixed infrastructure could result prohibitive in terms of either time or money. Although the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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HOP: Achieving Efficient Anonymity in MANETs by Combining HIP, OLSR, and Pseudonyms
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Offering secure and anonymous communications in mobile ad hoc networking environments is essential to achieve confidence and privacy, thus promoting widespread adoption of this kind of networks....
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Transaction Consistency in the Cloud: Old Paradigms
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Initial distributed and replicated databases used some mechanisms and paradigms that were slowly replaced by new and more efficient techniques that make cluster-based databases successful....
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CLOB: Communication Support for Efficient Replicated Database Recovery
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Replication protocols using an eager update propagation strategy commonly need a reliable broadcast service; i.e., a broadcast primitive with atomic delivery and, in some cases, also with total...
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A Semantic Layer for Embedded Sensor Networks
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Sensor Networks progressively assumed the critical role of bridges between the real world and information systems, through always more consolidated and efficient sensor technologies that enable...
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Building Ethernet Drivers on RTLinux-GPL
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes how to port Linux Ethernet drivers to RTLinux-GPL (hereafter RTLinux). It presents an architecture that will let Linux and RTLinux to share the same driver while accessing an...
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Secure Communications in Group-Based Wireless Sensor Networks
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Nowadays, Wireless Sensor Networks are a hot research topic in the scientific community. Researchers seek to maximize their autonomy while paying attention to their limited resources, few...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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A New AntTree-Based Algorithm for Clustering Short-Text Corpora
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Research work on "Short-text clustering" is a very important research area due to the current tendency for people to use 'small-language', e.g. blogs, text-messaging and others. In some recent...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Elucidating the Mashup Hype: Definition, Challenges, Methodical Guide and Tools for Mashups
March 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mashups are a current hype that is attracting high interest by academia and industry now and in the next years. The idea behind a mashup is to create new content by reusing and combining existing...
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Whitepapers
Computer-Aided Design of Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filters for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Applications
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tool of Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) filters for high frequency applications is described. Some synthesis techniques are successfully combined...
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Schedulability Analysis and Performance Evaluation of WSAN
October 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The current trend in the development of Networked Control Systems (NCS) is the use of wireless networks to communicate the system nodes, which have been called Wireless Sensors and Actuators...
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An Efficient Dynamic Resource Allocation Algorithm for Packet - Switched Communication Networks Based on Hopfield Neural Excitation Method
June 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) algorithms set up different connections over the same resources and perform a scheduling policy to distribute the resources usage. Recently, intelligent DRA...
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Configurable Node Density Generation With Application to Hotspots Modelling
June 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Mobility models are very relevant mainly when studying the performance of wireless systems by means of computer simulations. The main problem arises when deciding the best mobility model for a...
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A Survey of Scalability Approaches for Reliable Causal Broadcasts
December 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
Several applications of distributed systems need to be highly scalable. For achieving high availability and fault tolerance, such applications typically replicate their data. Due to the dynamics...
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The Overhead of Safe Broadcast Persistency
December 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
Although the need of logging messages in secondary storage once they have been received has been stated in several papers that assumed a recoverable failure model, none of them analyzed the...
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Transaction Consistency in the Cloud: Old Paradigms Revisited
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Initial distributed and replicated databases used some mechanisms and paradigms that were slowly replaced by new and more efficient techniques that make cluster-based databases successful....
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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White Papers
Elucidating the Mashup Hype: Definition, Challenges, Methodical Guide and Tools for Mashups
March 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mashups are a current hype that is attracting high interest by academia and industry now and in the next years. The idea behind a mashup is to create new content by reusing and combining existing...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
A New AntTree-Based Algorithm for Clustering Short-Text Corpora
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Research work on "Short-text clustering" is a very important research area due to the current tendency for people to use 'small-language', e.g. blogs, text-messaging and others. In some recent...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Secure Communications in Group-Based Wireless Sensor Networks
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Nowadays, Wireless Sensor Networks are a hot research topic in the scientific community. Researchers seek to maximize their autonomy while paying attention to their limited resources, few...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
A Semantic Layer for Embedded Sensor Networks
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Sensor Networks progressively assumed the critical role of bridges between the real world and information systems, through always more consolidated and efficient sensor technologies that enable...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
CLOB: Communication Support for Efficient Replicated Database Recovery
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Replication protocols using an eager update propagation strategy commonly need a reliable broadcast service; i.e., a broadcast primitive with atomic delivery and, in some cases, also with total...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Transaction Consistency in the Cloud: Old Paradigms
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Initial distributed and replicated databases used some mechanisms and paradigms that were slowly replaced by new and more efficient techniques that make cluster-based databases successful....
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
HOP: Achieving Efficient Anonymity in MANETs by Combining HIP, OLSR, and Pseudonyms
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Offering secure and anonymous communications in mobile ad hoc networking environments is essential to achieve confidence and privacy, thus promoting widespread adoption of this kind of networks....
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
An Attack Injection Approach to Evaluate the Robustness of Ad Hoc Networks
September 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ad hoc networks constitute a quick and cheap alternative to provide communications when deploying a fixed infrastructure could result prohibitive in terms of either time or money. Although the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Attack Injection for Performance and Dependability Assessment of Ad Hoc Networks
June 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ad hoc networks are wireless, self-configuring and self-maintaining networks that allow dispensing of fixed infrastructures by relying on nodes cooperation for providing packet routing. Their...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Towards Benchmarking the Performance and Dependability of Ad Hoc Networks in Presence of Attacks
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ad hoc networks are multi-hop wireless networks where all nodes cooperatively maintain network connectivity without fixed infrastructures and centralized administration. Many researches have been...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Key Factors for Attack Injection on MANETs: Towards Enhancing Experiment Representativeness
March 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Due to their unique characteristics, Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are exposed to different threats. Consequently, their confident use requires of the conception of methodologies to assess their...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Resilience-Driven Parameterisation of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols: Olsrd as a Case Study
July 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Ad hoc routing protocols are threatened by a variety of accidental and malicious faults that limit their use. Although a number of well-known strategies exist to enhance the performance and...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Attack Injection to Support the Evaluation of Ad Hoc Networks
August 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The increasing emergence of mobile computing devices seamlessly providing wireless communication capabilities opens a wide range of new application domains for ad hoc networks. However, the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Using Performance, Energy Consumption, and Resilience Experimental Measures to Evaluate Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks
June 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Ad hoc networks are gaining momentum in contexts of use where the rapid deployment of dynamic networks is critical. It is well-known that these networks are threatened by a variety of accidental...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
On Selecting Representative Faultloads to Guide the Evaluation of Ad Hoc Networks
March 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
Ad hoc networks are threatened by a wide variety of accidental and malicious faults. This fact limits the practical exploitation of ad hoc networks. In consequence, apart from enforcing the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Towards Benchmarking Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks
January 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) establish a new, quick and low-cost alternative to provide communications when deploying a fixed infrastructure that could result prohibitive in terms of either time...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Evaluating the Performance of Real Time Videoconferencing in Ad Hoc Networks Through Emulation
February 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
The validation of new video protocols and applications for mobile ad hoc networks in a real environment is an important task. In this paper, the authors present Castadiva, a test-bed architecture...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Multipath Extensions to the DYMO Routing Protocol
July 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Multipath routing is a technique that can improve performance, especially in mobile ad hoc networks. Due to traffic dispersion it can perform load-balancing, minimize the energy consumed by nodes...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
MAYA: A Tool for Wireless Mesh Networks Management
July 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) require specialized management software to reduce the setup and configuration time. Although wireless routers can be configured independently, some parameters, like...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Supporting Soft Real-Time Services in MANETs Using Distributed Admission Control and IEEE 802.11e Technology
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
QoS support in MANETs is a hard and challenging task due to the intrinsic complexities of these networks. In this paper, the authors present a solution called DACME to support real-time services...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Using Distributed Admission Control to Support Multimedia Applications in MANET Environments
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
MANET environments suffer from changing connectivity conditions and radio contention among stations that conform it. Despite the several on-going endeavors, no simple and effective solution has...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Evaluating the Goodness of MANETs Performance Results Obtained With the Ns-2 Simulator
October 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The development of new protocols and applications for Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANET) requires a thorough testing before their deployment in a real environment. Testing is typically based on...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
How Does Energy Consumption Impact Performance in Bluetooth?
June 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors investigate the power characteristics of the Bluetooth technology when supporting low-power modes. They provide accurate power consumption measurements for different...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
On the Interaction Between IEEE 802.11e and Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The upcoming IEEE 802.11e standard was developed to offer QoS capabilities to WLAN, offering significative improvements to multimedia traffic. MANETs will also benefit from this new technology...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Quality Assessment Metrics Vs. PSNR Under Packet Loss Scenarios in MANET Wireless Networks
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
It is well known that PSNR does not always rank quality of an image or video sequence in the same way that a human being. There are many other factors considered by the human visual system and the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Assessing the Effectiveness of IEEE 802.11e in Multi-Hop Mobile Network Environments
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The IEEE 802.11e technology is receiving much interest due to the promising enhancements it will offer to wireless local area networks in terms of QoS support. Until now, research has focused on...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Coarse-Grained Resilience Benchmarking Using Logic Score of Preferences: Ad Hoc Networks as a Case Study
March 13, 2011, 12:00am PST
Ad hoc networks are self-configuring multi-hop wireless networks whose routing protocols are extremely sensitive to the occurrence of accidental and malicious faults. However, the behaviour...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
On the Convergence Between Wireless Sensor Network and RFID: Industrial Environment
July 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The convergence between Wireless Sensor Network and RFID technology enables the development of flexible and integrated architectures that could currently represent a competitive solution for...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Flexible Real-Time Embedded Architecture for Advanced Service Robots
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In most advanced real-time control applications such as service robots, the tasks have different criticality, flexible timing constraints and variable execution time. For instance, autonomous...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
A Requirements Engineering Approach for the Development of Multi-Agent Systems
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents RE4Gaia, which is a requirements modeling approach for the development of multi-agent systems that extend the Gaia methodology. The approach focuses on dealing with the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Real-Time Embedded Architecture for Improving Pervasive Robot Services
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The integration of embedded real-time control systems with the physical world via sensors and actuators (pervasive computing systems) is creating a nascent infrastructure for a technical, economic...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Experimentation in Software Engineering: Bridging the Gap Between Educators and Researchers
May 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Currently, a great number of controlled experiments are being executed to evaluate the effectiveness of methods and/or techniques in academic environments. Most of these experiments have as the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
-
White Papers
Predicting Success in the Computer Science Degree Using ROC Analysis
May 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT
ROC Curves (Receiver Operating Characteristic) are remarkably useful in medical decision-making. Given a common measurable characteristic, with a continuous output in all the beings of a group,...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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