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The MIMOWA Project: A Step Towards the Real Implementation of MIMO Techniques in Future Wireless Systems
May 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) is a radio antenna technology which employs multiple antennas at both transmitter and receiver ends, and provides new enhancements and potentials in...
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Elastic Management of Tasks in Virtualized Environments
December 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Nowadays, service providers in the Cloud offer complex services ready to be used as it was a commodity like water or electricity to their customers. A key technology for this approach is...
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Towards an Efficient Service Level Agreement Assessment
January 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
On-line end-to-end Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring is of key importance nowadays. For this purpose, past recent researches focused on measuring (when possible) or estimating (most of the...
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Challenges and Opportunities in Advanced Optical Networking
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Optical communication systems and networks will continue to play a significant role in the development and deployment of emerging network infrastructures. These networks are expected to support...
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The Hiring Problem: An Analytic And Experimental Study
January 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
When a small, start-up company intends to grow, it has to hire employees. Because the company requires high quality staff, the employer has to interview a lot of candidates and thus, she may take...
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Towards Energy-Aware Scheduling in Data Centers Using Machine Learning
February 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
As energy-related costs have become a major economical factor for IT infrastructures and data-centers, companies and the research community are being challenged to find better and more efficient...
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Design and Implementation on DSP of the ETSI GSM Adaptive Multi-Rate Vocoder
October 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With the current focus on high-speed packet data transmission, it is easy to forget that the primary purpose of GSM digital telecommunication systems was speech transmission. The general...
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Adaptive XML Tree Classification on Evolving Data Streams
June 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a new method to classify patterns, using closed and maximal frequent patterns as features. Generally, classification requires a previous mapping from the patterns to classify...
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Performance and Overhead Analysis of the ALOE Middleware for SDR
May 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Current Software-Defined Radio applications (Waveforms) are tailored to specific hardware. Processor vendors frequently adapt internal OS mechanisms for its specific architecture (e.g. Scheduling...
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Experimental Measurements of the Power Consumption for Wireless Sensor Networks
June 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Wireless sensor networks are obtaining a great relevancy in civil as military applications. These networks consist of a distributed set of sensor nodes which have very high restrictions for...
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Insights on the Internet Routing Scalability Issues
December 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
In recent years, the size and dynamics of the global routing table have increased rapidly along with an increase in the number of edge networks. The relation between edge network quantity and...
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OLSRp: Predicting Control Information to Achieve Scalability in OLSR Ad-Hocs Networks
July 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Scalability is a key design challenge that routing protocols for ad hoc networks must properly address to maintain the network performance when the number of nodes increases. This paper focusses...
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Towards a Definition of a CRM System Life-Cycle
July 6, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, the interest on research in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems has grown notoriously. Many authors have made individual proposals of interesting topics to be...
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Monitoring Adaptable SOA-Systems Using SALMon
December 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
Adaptability is a key feature of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Systems. These systems must evolve themselves in order to ensure their initial requirements as well as to satisfy arising new...
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Using UML for Modelling the Static Part of a Software Process
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors study in this paper the use of UML as a tool for modeling the process of software construction. As a case study, they deal with the process of building a library of software...
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Coverage-Based Common Radio Resource Management in Heterogeneous CDMA/TDMA Cellular Systems
February 9, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes a coverage-based Common Radio Resource Management (CRRM) strategy to improve the system performance for a heterogeneous CDMA/TDMA cellular system. In this strategy, with full...
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Resource Usage Modeling for Network Monitoring Applications
July 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Building robust network monitoring applications is hard given the unpredictable nature of network traffic and high, ever-increasing data rates. Traffic analysis systems must be designed with load...
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Revocable Attribute-Based Signatures With Adaptive Security in the Standard Model
January 27, 2011, 12:00am PST
An attribute-based signature with respect to a signing policy, chosen ad-hoc by the signer, convinces the verifier that the signer holds a subset of attributes satisfying that signing policy....
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Decentralized Spectrum and Radio Resource Management Enabled by an On-Demand Cognitive Pilot Channel
February 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a framework to achieve an efficient dynamic and decentralized spectrum and radio resource usage in heterogeneous wireless network scenarios. The envisaged technical solution...
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Improving Reactive Routing on Wireless Multi-Rate Ad-Hoc Networks
November 30, 2006, 12:00am PST
Traditional ad-hoc routing protocols typically choose minimum hop paths for transmissions. In a multi-rate environment, where nodes may elect between several transmission rates in order to...
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Analysis of Bandwidth Measurement Methodologies Over WLAN Systems
February 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
WLAN devices have become a fundamental component of nowadays network deployments. However, even though traditional networking applications run mostly unchanged over wireless links, the actual...
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Ideal Multipartite Secret Sharing Schemes
March 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Multipartite secret sharing schemes are those having a multipartite access structure, in which the set of participants is divided into several parts and all participants in the same part play an...
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On Secret Sharing Schemes, Matroids and Polymatroids
June 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The complexity of a secret sharing scheme is defined as the ratio between the maximum length of the shares and the length of the secret. The optimization of this parameter for general access...
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Structured-Content Extraction From the Web for Bibliographic Reference Generation
January 3, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors present a system that automatically creates bibliographic indexes from a collection of PDF files by using the file contents to search the Web and later extract the...
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Performance Analysis of a Lightweight NEMO Implementation for Low-End Devices
February 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
ETF NEtwork MObility (NEMO) basic support protocol is an IP mobility management protocol designed to provide seamless IP mobility to complete networks. This protocol is of crucial interest in...
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Resource Management in Virtualized Execution Environments: New Opportunities for Application Specific Decisions
June 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a new approach to offer application-specific resource management on virtualized execution environments, such as those provided for C# or Java. The proposal is...
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Optimum Number of Beams in Multiuser Opportunistic Schemes Under QoS Constraints
February 8, 2007, 12:00am PST
Scheduling in a BroadCast (BC) channel based on partial Channel State Information at the Transmitter (CSIT) is carried out through an opportunistic random beamforming technique. Within a more...
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Effective Real-Time Wireless Control of an Autonomous Guided Vehicle
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless communication systems used in industrial environments must guarantee that the information is sent and received within precise time-bounds. However the nature of the radio channels and the...
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Towards a Cooperative Intrusion Detection System for Cognitive Radio Networks
February 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) arise as a promising solution to the scarcity of spectrum. By means of cooperation and smart decisions influenced by previous knowledge, CRNs are able to detect and...
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Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Spectrum Management in WCDMA
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Low use of licensed spectrum imposes a need for the advanced spectrum management for wise spectrum usage with the release of unneeded frequency bands for the secondary markets and opportunistic...
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Modeling the Lion Attack in Cognitive Radio Networks
July 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive radio is a promising technology aiming to improve the utilization of the radio electromagnetic spectrum. A cognitive radio is a smart device which runs radio applications software to...
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A Real-Time FPGA-Based Mobile WiMAX Transceiver Supporting Multi-Antenna Configurations
September 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the design, implementation and experimental validation of a real-time FPGA-based mobile WiMAX baseband transceiver. Three different antenna configuration schemes were...
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Positioning-Based Framework for Secondary Spectrum Usage
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors introduce a framework encompassing the creation and the exploitation of secondary spectrum usage opportunities. The paper develops a complete positioning-based framework...
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Advanced Spectrum Management for the Downlink of WCDMA Systems Using Genetic Algorithms
January 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose an advanced spectrum management approach for the downlink of WCDMA systems using genetic algorithms and the concept of coupling matrix, which is able to capture...
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Simulated Annealing-Based Advanced Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems
June 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a new Advanced Spectrum Management (ASM) methodology for WCDMA systems using simulated annealing and the concept of coupling matrix, which is able to capture...
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Novel Inter-Cell Interaction Approach for WCDMA-Based Cognitive Networks
February 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose a novel analytical framework that is able to capture inter-cell interactions and relevant variations in WCDMA systems using the so-called coupling matrix....
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Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems Encompassing Uplink and Downlink
January 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper a new spectrum management methodology for WCDMA systems is proposed based on the concept of coupling matrix, which is able to capture inter-cell interactions. The proposed...
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Dynamic Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems Based on Inter-Cell Interaction Approach
July 6, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Classical spectrum planning exercise is based on some expected spatial traffic distributions and corresponding load levels. Nevertheless, practical network deployments show that the dynamism in...
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On the Role of Spectrum Selection to Improve Coverage Extension Through Opportunistic Networks
September 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the role played by Opportunistic Networks (ONs) as a means to bring Future Internet services to users in different situations. After the identification of technical challenges...
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A Framework Based on a Fittingness Factor to Enable Efficient Exploitation of Spectrum Opportunities in Cognitive Radio Networks
September 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In order to increase CRs (Cognitive Radios) operation efficiency, there has been an interest in increasing awareness level about spectrum utilisation. In this respect, this paper proposes a new...
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Adaptive Scheduling on Power-Aware Managed Data-Centers Using Machine Learning
August 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Energy-related costs have become one of the major economic factors in IT data-centers, and companies and the research community are currently working on new efficient power-aware resource...
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A Novel Offline Physical Layer Impairments Aware RWA Algorithm With Dedicated Path Protection Consideration
July 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Physical layer impairments accumulate as light propagates through a lightpath in the transparent optical networks. Therefore it is possible to provision a lightpath, while its Quality of...
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A Novel Impairment Aware RWA Algorithm With Consideration for QoT Estimation Inaccuracy
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In all-optical networks the physical layer impairments accumulate along a lightpath and also vary dynamically, and a number of Impairment Aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment (IA-RWA)...
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Interdomain RWA Based on Stochastic Estimation Methods and Adaptive Filtering for Optical Networks
August 6, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a RWA strategy based on the stochastic estimation of the Effective Number of Available Wavelengths (ENAW) along interdomain paths. The authors propose an approximate model to...
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Measurement Based Call Quality Reporting
July 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Real-time traffic is an important issue when designing networks. The growth in the deployment of voice applications in packet switched networks requires that the network can deliver such traffic...
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OBGP+: A Simple Approach to Drastically Improve OBGP
February 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
During the last few years, the research community has shown an increasing interest in the subject of inter-domain routing in optical networks, so new approaches like the optical extension of BGP,...
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Distributed Sampling for On-line SLA Assessment
June 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
New business infrastructures over the Internet pose a new set of traffic constraints. In particular, multimedia and interactive contents require guarantees of bandwidth and delivery time. The...
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On the Challenges of Finding Two Linkdisjoint Lightpaths of Minimum Total Weight Across an Optical Network
June 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The problem of finding two link-disjoint (primary and backup) paths of minimum total weight across a network is referred to as Problem 2DP. For this problem, there exist computationally efficient...
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The Effects of Optimized Regenerator Allocation in Translucent Networks Under Inaccurate Physical information
December 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
Optimized regenerator allocation techniques select which of the already installed regenerators in a translucent network must be used in order to maximize the quality of the optical signal while...
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Cross-Talk Effects on the Regenerator Allocation Optimization
December 23, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the impact of considering crosstalk effects in the IA-RWA process and in the regenerator allocation algorithms. First of all, the authors evaluate if the regenerator allocation...
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XtreemFS - A Case for Object-Based Storage in Grid Data Management
September 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In today's Grids, files are usually managed by Grid data management systems that are superimposed on existing file and storage systems. In this position paper, the authors analyze this predominant...
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Multi-Radio Cooperative ARQ in Wireless Cellular Networks: A MAC Layer Perspective
April 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Multi-Radio Cooperative Automatic Retransmission ReQuest (MCARQ) schemes are introduced in this paper within the context of hybrid networks which combine long-range and short-range communications....
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Coexistence of a Novel Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and the IEEE 802.11
February 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors describe in this paper a methodology to facilitate the coexistence of the Distributed Queuing Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for Ad hoc Networks (DQMAN) with the IEEE 802.11...
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Energy-Delay Tradeoff Analysis in Embedded M2M Networks With Channel Coding
June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Machine-To-Machine (M2M), an emerging communications paradigm, is a facilitator of data flows between machines used, e.g., in mission-critical applications. Focusing in this paper on embedded...
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Analytical Evaluation of a Medium Access Control Priority Mechanism for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
August 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present in this paper the analytical evaluation of a simple mechanism to reduce the average transmission delay of master stations in a network based on the Distributed Queuing MAC...
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Handoff Functions for a Distributed Queuing Collision Avoidance Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless LANs
August 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Distributed Queuing with Collision Avoidance (DQCA) Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol has been presented in the literature as a high-performance protocol for up-link traffic in WLANs....
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Strengthening Radio Environment Maps With Primary-User Statistical Patterns for Enhancing Cognitive Radio Operation
July 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In order to increase spectrum utilization efficiency, CRs (Cognitive Radios) have been introduced to reuse white spaces left unused by legacy services under the strict constraint of not...
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A Novel Spectrum Selection Strategy for Matching Multi-Service Secondary Traffic to Heterogeneous Primary Spectrum Opportunities
April 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In order to increase spectrum utilization efficiency, CRs (Cognitive Radios) have been introduced to reuse white spaces left unused by legacy services under the strict constraint of not...
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A Framework Based on a Fittingness Factor to Enable Efficient Exploitation of Spectrum Opportunities in Cognitive Radio Networks
September 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In order to increase CRs (Cognitive Radios) operation efficiency, there has been an interest in increasing awareness level about spectrum utilisation. In this respect, this paper proposes a new...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
On the Role of Spectrum Selection to Improve Coverage Extension Through Opportunistic Networks
September 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the role played by Opportunistic Networks (ONs) as a means to bring Future Internet services to users in different situations. After the identification of technical challenges...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Dynamic Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems Based on Inter-Cell Interaction Approach
July 6, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Classical spectrum planning exercise is based on some expected spatial traffic distributions and corresponding load levels. Nevertheless, practical network deployments show that the dynamism in...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems Encompassing Uplink and Downlink
January 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper a new spectrum management methodology for WCDMA systems is proposed based on the concept of coupling matrix, which is able to capture inter-cell interactions. The proposed...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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Novel Inter-Cell Interaction Approach for WCDMA-Based Cognitive Networks
February 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose a novel analytical framework that is able to capture inter-cell interactions and relevant variations in WCDMA systems using the so-called coupling matrix....
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Simulated Annealing-Based Advanced Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems
June 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a new Advanced Spectrum Management (ASM) methodology for WCDMA systems using simulated annealing and the concept of coupling matrix, which is able to capture...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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Advanced Spectrum Management for the Downlink of WCDMA Systems Using Genetic Algorithms
January 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose an advanced spectrum management approach for the downlink of WCDMA systems using genetic algorithms and the concept of coupling matrix, which is able to capture...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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Positioning-Based Framework for Secondary Spectrum Usage
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors introduce a framework encompassing the creation and the exploitation of secondary spectrum usage opportunities. The paper develops a complete positioning-based framework...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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A Real-Time FPGA-Based Mobile WiMAX Transceiver Supporting Multi-Antenna Configurations
September 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the design, implementation and experimental validation of a real-time FPGA-based mobile WiMAX baseband transceiver. Three different antenna configuration schemes were...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Modeling the Lion Attack in Cognitive Radio Networks
July 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive radio is a promising technology aiming to improve the utilization of the radio electromagnetic spectrum. A cognitive radio is a smart device which runs radio applications software to...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Spectrum Management in WCDMA
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Low use of licensed spectrum imposes a need for the advanced spectrum management for wise spectrum usage with the release of unneeded frequency bands for the secondary markets and opportunistic...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Towards a Cooperative Intrusion Detection System for Cognitive Radio Networks
February 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) arise as a promising solution to the scarcity of spectrum. By means of cooperation and smart decisions influenced by previous knowledge, CRNs are able to detect and...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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Effective Real-Time Wireless Control of an Autonomous Guided Vehicle
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless communication systems used in industrial environments must guarantee that the information is sent and received within precise time-bounds. However the nature of the radio channels and the...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Optimum Number of Beams in Multiuser Opportunistic Schemes Under QoS Constraints
February 8, 2007, 12:00am PST
Scheduling in a BroadCast (BC) channel based on partial Channel State Information at the Transmitter (CSIT) is carried out through an opportunistic random beamforming technique. Within a more...
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Resource Management in Virtualized Execution Environments: New Opportunities for Application Specific Decisions
June 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a new approach to offer application-specific resource management on virtualized execution environments, such as those provided for C# or Java. The proposal is...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Performance Analysis of a Lightweight NEMO Implementation for Low-End Devices
February 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
ETF NEtwork MObility (NEMO) basic support protocol is an IP mobility management protocol designed to provide seamless IP mobility to complete networks. This protocol is of crucial interest in...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Structured-Content Extraction From the Web for Bibliographic Reference Generation
January 3, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors present a system that automatically creates bibliographic indexes from a collection of PDF files by using the file contents to search the Web and later extract the...
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On Secret Sharing Schemes, Matroids and Polymatroids
June 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The complexity of a secret sharing scheme is defined as the ratio between the maximum length of the shares and the length of the secret. The optimization of this parameter for general access...
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Ideal Multipartite Secret Sharing Schemes
March 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Multipartite secret sharing schemes are those having a multipartite access structure, in which the set of participants is divided into several parts and all participants in the same part play an...
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White Papers
Analysis of Bandwidth Measurement Methodologies Over WLAN Systems
February 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
WLAN devices have become a fundamental component of nowadays network deployments. However, even though traditional networking applications run mostly unchanged over wireless links, the actual...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Improving Reactive Routing on Wireless Multi-Rate Ad-Hoc Networks
November 30, 2006, 12:00am PST
Traditional ad-hoc routing protocols typically choose minimum hop paths for transmissions. In a multi-rate environment, where nodes may elect between several transmission rates in order to...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Decentralized Spectrum and Radio Resource Management Enabled by an On-Demand Cognitive Pilot Channel
February 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a framework to achieve an efficient dynamic and decentralized spectrum and radio resource usage in heterogeneous wireless network scenarios. The envisaged technical solution...
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