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Tracking Occupants and Inventory Items in Buildings Using RFID Technology
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In order to make control decisions, Smart Buildings need to collect data from multiple sources and bring it to a central location, such as the Building Management System (BMS). This needs to be...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Improving Energy Efficient Operation of Buildings With Wireless It Systems
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Reducing energy consumption is one of the major challenges for present day and will continue for future generations. The emerging EU directives relating to energy (EU EPBD and the EU Directive on...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Towards a Wireless Sensor Platform for Energy Efficient Building Operation
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Currently, the IT-support for energy performance rating of buildings is insufficient. So-called IT-platforms often "Built" of an ad-hoc, inconsistent combination of off-the-shelf building...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Efficient Building Management With IP-Based Wireless Sensor Network
January 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Existing Building/Energy Management Systems (BMS/EMS) fail to convey holistic performance to the building manager. A 20% reduction in energy consumption can be achieved by efficiently operated...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Semantic Web and Firewall Alignment
January 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
Secure Semantic Web applications, particularly that involving access control, are typically focused at the application-domain only, rather than taking a more holistic approach to also include the...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Palm Handheld Viruses: A Significant Threat?
November 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
Palm software is distributed as a serialized 'PRC' file of the application which can be stored on the user's local file-server/workstation. When the handheld and the local file-server/workstation...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Design of Underlying Network Infrastructure of Smart Buildings
April 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Building Management Systems (BMS) are an attractive option when it comes to building retrofitting due to the cost constraints introduced by wired systems. A crucial part of the wireless...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
A Reputation Algorithm for a Self-Organizing System Based Upon Resource Virtualization
October 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In the service-oriented architecture introduced in the reputation affects the prices producers could ask for their resources, the prices consumers of resources are willing to pay, and the...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Stochastic Constraint Programming: A Scenario-Based Approach
March 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
To model combinatorial decision problems involving uncertainty and probability, the authors introduce scenario based stochastic constraint programming. Stochastic constraint programs contain both...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Stochastic Constraint Programming
March 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
To model combinatorial decision problems involving uncertainty and probability, the authors introduce stochastic constraint programming. Stochastic constraint programs contain both decision...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Action Learning Methodologies And The IMP Tradition: Application To Capability Building In SMEs
August 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this paper is to apply a process methodology, action learning, to an SME network capability development study. The authors argue for the compatibility of Action Learning...
Provided by University College Cork
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Whitepapers
An Enhanced Bridged-Based Multi-Hop Wireless Network Implementation
April 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper an enhanced Layer-2 multi-hop wireless network implementation for Infrastructure based Wireless Mesh Networks is presented. This work combines the flexibility of Layer-2 Wireless...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Building Fire Emergency Detection and Response Using Wireless Sensor Networks
December 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) provide a low cost solution with respect to maintenance and installation and in particular, building refurbishment and retrofitting are easily accomplished via...
Provided by University College Cork
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Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks: Development of Wireless Sensor Networks in Which Performance Can Be Controlled Will Enable Their Adoption in Industrial Settings
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Research on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has mainly been focused on protocols and architectures for applications in which network performance assurances are not considered essential, such as...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Regime Change And Convertible Arbitrage Risk
November 20, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper analyses the data generating process of the convertible arbitrage hedge fund strategy. Within a nonlinear framework, the authors allow for alternate regimes of convertible arbitrage...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
A Shared Opportunistic Infrastructure for Long-Lived Wireless Sensor Networks
March 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, a Shared Opportunistic Infrastructure (SOI) is proposed to reduce total cost of ownership for long-lived wireless sensor networks through exploiting human mobility. More...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Confident Firewall Policy Configuration Management Using Description Logic
September 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The provisioning of a firewall is one of the first important steps toward securing access control to a network. However, the effectiveness of a firewall's access control may be limited or...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Scheduling for Cellular Manufacturing
June 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Alcatel-Lucent is a major player in the field of telecommunications. One of the products it offers to network operators is wireless infrastructure such as base stations. Such equipment is...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Predictive Simulation & Evacuation Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks
August 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present an emergency monitoring strategy (Predictive Simulation Reporting) using Wireless Sensor Networks that combines sensor monitoring and the prediction of future...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Extended Handover Keying and Modified IEEE 802.21 Resource Query Approach for Improving Vertical Handoff Performance
January 5, 2011, 12:00am PST
Inter-technology handoff is a complex process that involves several procedures including resource management, mobility management, and security functions. These procedures increase the handoff...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
ER-MAC: A Hybrid MAC Protocol for Emergency Response Wireless Sensor Networks
April 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces ER-MAC, a hybrid MAC protocol for emergency response wireless sensor networks. ERMAC is designed as a hybrid of the TDMA and CSMA approaches, giving it the flexibility to...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
IEEE 802.21-Enabled ALIVE-HO for Media Streaming in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
April 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The convergence of heterogeneous wireless access technologies is an intrinsic part of the long term evolution of wireless networks. This convergence creates network overlays in which achieving...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Using Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks to Improve Building Emergency Response
March 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose an opportunistic routing scheme for wireless sensor networks operating in volatile environments. In particular, they consider a sensor field for sensing and reporting on...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Software Update Recovery for Wireless Sensor Networks
October 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Updating software over the network is important for Wireless Sensor Networks in support of scale, remote deployment, feature upgrades, and fixes. The risk of a fault in the updated code causing...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Deployment Alternatives for Performance Debugging in Wireless Sensor Networks
August 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A common approach for performance monitoring and diagnosis in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is to send meta-data to a sink node to process. WSN radio constraints limit the amount of this...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Power Smart In-door Optical Wireless Link Design
October 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
It was realized in the late 1970s that diffused InfraRed (IR) light much like Radio Frequency (RF) radiation filling a room could be used for wireless data communications. This indoor optical...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Securing Openssl Against Micro-Architectural Attacks
July 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Exponentiation algorithms are important for many public-key cryptographic algorithms, in particular for computing the modular exponentiation necessary for RSA (Rivest et al., 1978). It is...
Provided by University College Cork
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Reasoning About the Security Configuration of SAN Switch Fabrics
October 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Management of a switch fabric security configuration, a core component of Storage Area Networks, is complex and error prone. As a consequence, misconfiguration of and/or a poor understanding of a...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Management of Security Policy Configuration Using a Semantic Threat Graph Approach
December 30, 2010, 12:00am PST
Managing the configuration of heterogeneous enterprise security mechanisms is a complex task. The effectiveness of a configuration may be constrained by poor understanding and/or management of the...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Federated Autonomic Network Access Control
October 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Network Access Controls (NAC) are widely used to provide endpoint security typically complementing existing application-based security controls. NAC security mechanisms, for instance firewalls,...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Configuring Storage-Area Networks for Mandatory Security
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Storage-Area Networks are a popular and efficient way of building large storage systems both in an enterprise environment and for multi-domain storage service providers. In both environments the...
Provided by University College Cork
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Aspect-Oriented Reengineering of an Object-Oriented Library in a Short Iteration Agile Process
June 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Aspect-oriented re-engineering aims to modularize crosscutting concerns in an existing system using a new abstraction called an aspect. Code concerns may be tangled and scattered throughout an...
Provided by University College Cork
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Whitepapers
An Enhanced Bridged-Based Multi-Hop Wireless Network Implementation
April 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper an enhanced Layer-2 multi-hop wireless network implementation for Infrastructure based Wireless Mesh Networks is presented. This work combines the flexibility of Layer-2 Wireless...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Aspect-Oriented Reengineering of an Object-Oriented Library in a Short Iteration Agile Process
June 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Aspect-oriented re-engineering aims to modularize crosscutting concerns in an existing system using a new abstraction called an aspect. Code concerns may be tangled and scattered throughout an...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Federated Autonomic Network Access Control
October 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Network Access Controls (NAC) are widely used to provide endpoint security typically complementing existing application-based security controls. NAC security mechanisms, for instance firewalls,...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Management of Security Policy Configuration Using a Semantic Threat Graph Approach
December 30, 2010, 12:00am PST
Managing the configuration of heterogeneous enterprise security mechanisms is a complex task. The effectiveness of a configuration may be constrained by poor understanding and/or management of the...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Reasoning About the Security Configuration of SAN Switch Fabrics
October 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Management of a switch fabric security configuration, a core component of Storage Area Networks, is complex and error prone. As a consequence, misconfiguration of and/or a poor understanding of a...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Securing Openssl Against Micro-Architectural Attacks
July 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Exponentiation algorithms are important for many public-key cryptographic algorithms, in particular for computing the modular exponentiation necessary for RSA (Rivest et al., 1978). It is...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Power Smart In-door Optical Wireless Link Design
October 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
It was realized in the late 1970s that diffused InfraRed (IR) light much like Radio Frequency (RF) radiation filling a room could be used for wireless data communications. This indoor optical...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Deployment Alternatives for Performance Debugging in Wireless Sensor Networks
August 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A common approach for performance monitoring and diagnosis in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is to send meta-data to a sink node to process. WSN radio constraints limit the amount of this...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Software Update Recovery for Wireless Sensor Networks
October 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Updating software over the network is important for Wireless Sensor Networks in support of scale, remote deployment, feature upgrades, and fixes. The risk of a fault in the updated code causing...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Using Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks to Improve Building Emergency Response
March 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose an opportunistic routing scheme for wireless sensor networks operating in volatile environments. In particular, they consider a sensor field for sensing and reporting on...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
IEEE 802.21-Enabled ALIVE-HO for Media Streaming in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
April 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The convergence of heterogeneous wireless access technologies is an intrinsic part of the long term evolution of wireless networks. This convergence creates network overlays in which achieving...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
ER-MAC: A Hybrid MAC Protocol for Emergency Response Wireless Sensor Networks
April 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces ER-MAC, a hybrid MAC protocol for emergency response wireless sensor networks. ERMAC is designed as a hybrid of the TDMA and CSMA approaches, giving it the flexibility to...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Extended Handover Keying and Modified IEEE 802.21 Resource Query Approach for Improving Vertical Handoff Performance
January 5, 2011, 12:00am PST
Inter-technology handoff is a complex process that involves several procedures including resource management, mobility management, and security functions. These procedures increase the handoff...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Predictive Simulation & Evacuation Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks
August 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present an emergency monitoring strategy (Predictive Simulation Reporting) using Wireless Sensor Networks that combines sensor monitoring and the prediction of future...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Scheduling for Cellular Manufacturing
June 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Alcatel-Lucent is a major player in the field of telecommunications. One of the products it offers to network operators is wireless infrastructure such as base stations. Such equipment is...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
A Shared Opportunistic Infrastructure for Long-Lived Wireless Sensor Networks
March 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, a Shared Opportunistic Infrastructure (SOI) is proposed to reduce total cost of ownership for long-lived wireless sensor networks through exploiting human mobility. More...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Regime Change And Convertible Arbitrage Risk
November 20, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper analyses the data generating process of the convertible arbitrage hedge fund strategy. Within a nonlinear framework, the authors allow for alternate regimes of convertible arbitrage...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks: Development of Wireless Sensor Networks in Which Performance Can Be Controlled Will Enable Their Adoption in Industrial Settings
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Research on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has mainly been focused on protocols and architectures for applications in which network performance assurances are not considered essential, such as...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Building Fire Emergency Detection and Response Using Wireless Sensor Networks
December 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) provide a low cost solution with respect to maintenance and installation and in particular, building refurbishment and retrofitting are easily accomplished via...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Action Learning Methodologies And The IMP Tradition: Application To Capability Building In SMEs
August 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this paper is to apply a process methodology, action learning, to an SME network capability development study. The authors argue for the compatibility of Action Learning...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Stochastic Constraint Programming
March 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
To model combinatorial decision problems involving uncertainty and probability, the authors introduce stochastic constraint programming. Stochastic constraint programs contain both decision...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Stochastic Constraint Programming: A Scenario-Based Approach
March 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
To model combinatorial decision problems involving uncertainty and probability, the authors introduce scenario based stochastic constraint programming. Stochastic constraint programs contain both...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
A Reputation Algorithm for a Self-Organizing System Based Upon Resource Virtualization
October 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In the service-oriented architecture introduced in the reputation affects the prices producers could ask for their resources, the prices consumers of resources are willing to pay, and the...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Design of Underlying Network Infrastructure of Smart Buildings
April 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Building Management Systems (BMS) are an attractive option when it comes to building retrofitting due to the cost constraints introduced by wired systems. A crucial part of the wireless...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Palm Handheld Viruses: A Significant Threat?
November 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
Palm software is distributed as a serialized 'PRC' file of the application which can be stored on the user's local file-server/workstation. When the handheld and the local file-server/workstation...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Semantic Web and Firewall Alignment
January 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
Secure Semantic Web applications, particularly that involving access control, are typically focused at the application-domain only, rather than taking a more holistic approach to also include the...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Efficient Building Management With IP-Based Wireless Sensor Network
January 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Existing Building/Energy Management Systems (BMS/EMS) fail to convey holistic performance to the building manager. A 20% reduction in energy consumption can be achieved by efficiently operated...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Towards a Wireless Sensor Platform for Energy Efficient Building Operation
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Currently, the IT-support for energy performance rating of buildings is insufficient. So-called IT-platforms often "Built" of an ad-hoc, inconsistent combination of off-the-shelf building...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Improving Energy Efficient Operation of Buildings With Wireless It Systems
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Reducing energy consumption is one of the major challenges for present day and will continue for future generations. The emerging EU directives relating to energy (EU EPBD and the EU Directive on...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Tracking Occupants and Inventory Items in Buildings Using RFID Technology
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In order to make control decisions, Smart Buildings need to collect data from multiple sources and bring it to a central location, such as the Building Management System (BMS). This needs to be...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Configuring Storage-Area Networks for Mandatory Security
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Storage-Area Networks are a popular and efficient way of building large storage systems both in an enterprise environment and for multi-domain storage service providers. In both environments the...
Provided by University College Cork
-
White Papers
Confident Firewall Policy Configuration Management Using Description Logic
September 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The provisioning of a firewall is one of the first important steps toward securing access control to a network. However, the effectiveness of a firewall's access control may be limited or...
Provided by University College Cork
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