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Amplify-and-Forward With Full-Duplex Relay Selection
January 30, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper focuses on the relay selection problem in Amplify-and-Forward (AF) cooperative communication with Full-Duplex (FD) operation. Different relay selection schemes assuming the availability...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Cloud Computing Distributed Internet Computing for IT and Scientific Research
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One vision of 21st century computing is that users will access Internet services over lightweight portable devices rather than through some descendant of the traditional desktop PC. Because users...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Evaluation of UML Based Wireless Network Virtualization
December 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
Wireless virtualization aims to support concurrent experiments on shared wireless network resources. This research is based on efforts to enhance the control structure of the wireless test bed...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Profit-Aware Server Allocation for Green Internet Services
February 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
A server farm is examined, where a number of servers are used to offer a service to impatient customers. Every completed request generates a certain amount of profit, running servers consume...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Bridging the Mobile Web and the Web of Things in Urban Environments
October 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Embedded sensors are massively deployed around the world, especially in urban areas. The increasing urbanism implies advanced challenges for the citizens. Real-time sensory data is expected to...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Building Web-Based Infrastructures for Smart Meters
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Smart Meters have been massively deployed recently, in order to provide energy awareness to people, helping them reduce their electricity footprint. The authors propose a Web-based infrastructure...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Most of the currently deployed wireless sensor networks applications do not require performance control. The goal of the GINSENG project is sensor networks that meet application-specific...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Is The Financial Development And Economic Growth Relationship Nonlinear?
July 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Using nonparametric estimation techniques, the authors find that, in contrast to recent research, the finance-growth relationship is linear when the previously documented nonlinearity between...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Dynamic Topology Control for WSNs in Critical Environments
December 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
Plant automation and control are mission-critical applications and require timely and reliable data delivery, which is difficult to provide using a wireless technology. This is especially more...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Inter-Mobility Support in Controlled 6LoWPAN Networks
August 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The research and industrial community started to think of more complex application scenarios for wireless sensor networks, where the use of mobile sensor nodes is essential. The support of mobile...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Alternative Path Creation for Network Hole Minimization in Overloaded Wireless Sensor Networks
January 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Alternative path creation is a way to balance the traffic and increase lifetime in densely deployed Wireless Sensor Networks. In this paper, the authors investigate how an algorithm explicitly...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Energy Utilization of HTAP Under Specific Node Placements in Wireless Sensor Networks
February 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
Energy utilization is a challenging task that is being encountered in low-powered Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) when designing an algorithm, protocol or hardware. Congestion is a factor that can...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Performance Study of Node Placement for Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Performance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can be affected when the network is deployed under different topologies. In this paper, the authors present a performance study of congestion control...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Congestion Control in Autonomous Decentralized Networks Based on the Lotka-Volterra Competition Model
June 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Next generation communication networks are moving towards autonomous infrastructures that are capable of working unattended under dynamically changing conditions. The new network architecture...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Should Macroeconomic Forecasters Use Daily Financial Data And How?
November 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors introduce easy to implement regression-based methods for predicting quarterly real economic activity that use daily financial data and rely on forecast combinations of MIDAS...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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An Analysis of the Handover Latency Components in Mobile IPv6
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper analyses the latency components in Mobile IPv6 handovers. It provides real-implementation results for significant parts of the handover process through measurements in a real MIPv6...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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On Asymptotically Optimal Routing in Large Wireless Networks and Geometrical Optics Analogy
March 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper is based on the observation that, as the number of nodes in wireless network approaches infinity, minimum-cost routes become smooth curves that observe the same laws followed by rays of...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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White Papers
Innovative Personalization Issues for Providing User-Centric mGovernment Services
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Advances in mGovernment oriented technologies and services are taking place with a considerable speed around the world. As communications and other IT usage becomes an integral part of many...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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White Papers
Compound Outage Probability and Capacity of a Class of Fading MIMO Channels With Channel Distribution Uncertainty
February 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
Outage probability and capacity of a class of block-fading MIMO channels are considered with partial channel distribution information. Specifically, the channel or its distribution is not known...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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White Papers
A Hybrid Fault-Tolerant Algorithm for MPLS Networks
March 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a new fault tolerant, path maintaining, algorithm for use in MPLS based networks. The novelty of the algorithm lies upon the fact that it is the first to employ both path...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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On the Structure and Evolution of Vehicular Networks
June 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Vehicular ad hoc networks have emerged recently as a platform to support intelligent inter-vehicle communication and improve traffic safety and performance. The road-constrained and high mobility...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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White Papers
Information Dissemination in Mobile CDNs
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
With the recent development of technologies in wireless access and mobile devices, the mobile network has become a key component of today's Internet vision. Current mobile networks, which are...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Content Classification for Caching Under CDNs
October 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) provide an efficient support for serving "Resource-hungry" applications while minimizing the network impact of content delivery as well as shifting the traffic...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Harvesting Large-Scale Grids for Software Resources
March 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Grid infrastructures are in operation around the world, federating an impressive collection of computational resources and a wide variety of application software. In this context, it is important...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Effective Keyword Search for Software Resources Installed in Large-Scale Grid Infrastructures
July 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors investigate the problem of supporting keyword-based searching for the discovery of software resources that are installed on the nodes of large-scale, federated Grid...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Using Argumentation Logic for Firewall Configuration Management
January 8, 2009, 12:00am PST
Firewalls remain the main perimeter security protection for corporate networks. However, network size and complexity make firewall configuration and maintenance notoriously difficult. Tools are...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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EETCO: A Tool to Estimate and Explore the Implications of Datacenter Design Choices on the TCO and the Environmental Impact
January 31, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present EETCO an estimation and exploration tool that provides qualitative trends of data center design decisions on Total-Cost-of-Ownership (TCO) and environmental...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Eliminating Energy of Same-Content-Cell-Columns of On-Chip SRAM Arrays
May 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes to reduce energy by avoiding access to columns of on-chip SRAM arrays whose cell contents are all 1s or all 0s. The authors refer to this dynamic phenomenon as the...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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CBFD: A Count-Based Fault Detection Scheme for Memory Arrays
March 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The performance-cost benefits enjoyed for decades due to the scaling of device area are challenged by power and reliability constraints. Fixed power envelopes and increases in static and dynamic...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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An Enhanced Approach for Efficient MBMS Handovers in 3G Networks
April 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With MBMS, a Mobile Terminal (MT) that is on the move and receive an MBMS service may have to handover from a Common to a Dedicated Channel when crossing the cell's edge. In previous work, the...
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A New Approach for Efficient MBMS Service Provision in UTRAN
April 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As currently specified by 3GPP, MBMS services can be provided in a cell either by Point-to-Point (PtP) or Point-to-Multipoint (PtM) transmission mode, but not both at the same time. With PtP...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Power Counting for Optimized Capacity in MBMS Enabled UTRAN
April 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
MBMS bearer services can be provided in each cell by either Point-to-Point or Point-to-Multipoint transmission mode but for efficiency a decision has to be made between the two approaches....
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RAN Selection for Converged Networks Supporting IMS Signalling and MBMS Service
June 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Future Communication Networks are envisioned to be based upon a common, flexible and scalable convergence platform, where different access networks, different terminals and different services can...
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Facial Biometric Templates and Aging: Problems and Challenges for Artificial Intelligence
July 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The performance of face recognition and/or authentication systems is greatly affected by within-person variations encountered in human faces. Within person facial variations distort the appearance...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Tree-Forming Schemes for Overload Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 17, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Node placement in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is frequently redundant and massive. Massive and dense deployments require efficient and effective, topology control algorithms in order to reduce...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Source-Based Routing Trees for Efficient Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 14, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Placement of nodes in Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs) is often massive and random. Topology control algorithms focus in lowering the initial network topology, by reducing active nodes and links,...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Performance Evaluation of the DAlPaS Congestion Control Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As wireless sensor networks are evolving to applications where high load demands dominate and time is considered critical, congestion remains a serious problem that has to be effectively and...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Whitepapers
DAlPaS: A Performance Aware Congestion Control Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As wireless sensor networks are evolving to applications where high load demands dominate and performance becomes a crucial factor, congestion remains a serious problem that has to be effectively...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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Study of Lifetime Extension in Wireless Sensor Networks Through Congestion Control Algorithms
April 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Energy constraints are undoubtedly a major concern in the creation of algorithms for WSNs. In this paper, the authors examine the issue of extending a wireless sensor network's lifetime, not with...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
Whitepapers
Amplify-and-Forward With Full-Duplex Relay Selection
January 30, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper focuses on the relay selection problem in Amplify-and-Forward (AF) cooperative communication with Full-Duplex (FD) operation. Different relay selection schemes assuming the availability...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
Whitepapers
Study of Lifetime Extension in Wireless Sensor Networks Through Congestion Control Algorithms
April 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Energy constraints are undoubtedly a major concern in the creation of algorithms for WSNs. In this paper, the authors examine the issue of extending a wireless sensor network's lifetime, not with...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
Whitepapers
DAlPaS: A Performance Aware Congestion Control Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As wireless sensor networks are evolving to applications where high load demands dominate and performance becomes a crucial factor, congestion remains a serious problem that has to be effectively...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
Whitepapers
Performance Evaluation of the DAlPaS Congestion Control Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As wireless sensor networks are evolving to applications where high load demands dominate and time is considered critical, congestion remains a serious problem that has to be effectively and...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
Whitepapers
Source-Based Routing Trees for Efficient Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 14, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Placement of nodes in Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs) is often massive and random. Topology control algorithms focus in lowering the initial network topology, by reducing active nodes and links,...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
Whitepapers
Tree-Forming Schemes for Overload Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 17, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Node placement in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is frequently redundant and massive. Massive and dense deployments require efficient and effective, topology control algorithms in order to reduce...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Facial Biometric Templates and Aging: Problems and Challenges for Artificial Intelligence
July 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The performance of face recognition and/or authentication systems is greatly affected by within-person variations encountered in human faces. Within person facial variations distort the appearance...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
RAN Selection for Converged Networks Supporting IMS Signalling and MBMS Service
June 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Future Communication Networks are envisioned to be based upon a common, flexible and scalable convergence platform, where different access networks, different terminals and different services can...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Power Counting for Optimized Capacity in MBMS Enabled UTRAN
April 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
MBMS bearer services can be provided in each cell by either Point-to-Point or Point-to-Multipoint transmission mode but for efficiency a decision has to be made between the two approaches....
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
A New Approach for Efficient MBMS Service Provision in UTRAN
April 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As currently specified by 3GPP, MBMS services can be provided in a cell either by Point-to-Point (PtP) or Point-to-Multipoint (PtM) transmission mode, but not both at the same time. With PtP...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
An Enhanced Approach for Efficient MBMS Handovers in 3G Networks
April 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With MBMS, a Mobile Terminal (MT) that is on the move and receive an MBMS service may have to handover from a Common to a Dedicated Channel when crossing the cell's edge. In previous work, the...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
CBFD: A Count-Based Fault Detection Scheme for Memory Arrays
March 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The performance-cost benefits enjoyed for decades due to the scaling of device area are challenged by power and reliability constraints. Fixed power envelopes and increases in static and dynamic...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Eliminating Energy of Same-Content-Cell-Columns of On-Chip SRAM Arrays
May 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes to reduce energy by avoiding access to columns of on-chip SRAM arrays whose cell contents are all 1s or all 0s. The authors refer to this dynamic phenomenon as the...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
EETCO: A Tool to Estimate and Explore the Implications of Datacenter Design Choices on the TCO and the Environmental Impact
January 31, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present EETCO an estimation and exploration tool that provides qualitative trends of data center design decisions on Total-Cost-of-Ownership (TCO) and environmental...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Using Argumentation Logic for Firewall Configuration Management
January 8, 2009, 12:00am PST
Firewalls remain the main perimeter security protection for corporate networks. However, network size and complexity make firewall configuration and maintenance notoriously difficult. Tools are...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Effective Keyword Search for Software Resources Installed in Large-Scale Grid Infrastructures
July 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors investigate the problem of supporting keyword-based searching for the discovery of software resources that are installed on the nodes of large-scale, federated Grid...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Harvesting Large-Scale Grids for Software Resources
March 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Grid infrastructures are in operation around the world, federating an impressive collection of computational resources and a wide variety of application software. In this context, it is important...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Content Classification for Caching Under CDNs
October 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) provide an efficient support for serving "Resource-hungry" applications while minimizing the network impact of content delivery as well as shifting the traffic...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Information Dissemination in Mobile CDNs
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
With the recent development of technologies in wireless access and mobile devices, the mobile network has become a key component of today's Internet vision. Current mobile networks, which are...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
On the Structure and Evolution of Vehicular Networks
June 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Vehicular ad hoc networks have emerged recently as a platform to support intelligent inter-vehicle communication and improve traffic safety and performance. The road-constrained and high mobility...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Compound Outage Probability and Capacity of a Class of Fading MIMO Channels With Channel Distribution Uncertainty
February 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
Outage probability and capacity of a class of block-fading MIMO channels are considered with partial channel distribution information. Specifically, the channel or its distribution is not known...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Innovative Personalization Issues for Providing User-Centric mGovernment Services
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Advances in mGovernment oriented technologies and services are taking place with a considerable speed around the world. As communications and other IT usage becomes an integral part of many...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
On Asymptotically Optimal Routing in Large Wireless Networks and Geometrical Optics Analogy
March 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper is based on the observation that, as the number of nodes in wireless network approaches infinity, minimum-cost routes become smooth curves that observe the same laws followed by rays of...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
An Analysis of the Handover Latency Components in Mobile IPv6
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper analyses the latency components in Mobile IPv6 handovers. It provides real-implementation results for significant parts of the handover process through measurements in a real MIPv6...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Should Macroeconomic Forecasters Use Daily Financial Data And How?
November 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors introduce easy to implement regression-based methods for predicting quarterly real economic activity that use daily financial data and rely on forecast combinations of MIDAS...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Congestion Control in Autonomous Decentralized Networks Based on the Lotka-Volterra Competition Model
June 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Next generation communication networks are moving towards autonomous infrastructures that are capable of working unattended under dynamically changing conditions. The new network architecture...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Performance Study of Node Placement for Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Performance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can be affected when the network is deployed under different topologies. In this paper, the authors present a performance study of congestion control...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Energy Utilization of HTAP Under Specific Node Placements in Wireless Sensor Networks
February 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
Energy utilization is a challenging task that is being encountered in low-powered Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) when designing an algorithm, protocol or hardware. Congestion is a factor that can...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Alternative Path Creation for Network Hole Minimization in Overloaded Wireless Sensor Networks
January 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Alternative path creation is a way to balance the traffic and increase lifetime in densely deployed Wireless Sensor Networks. In this paper, the authors investigate how an algorithm explicitly...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Inter-Mobility Support in Controlled 6LoWPAN Networks
August 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The research and industrial community started to think of more complex application scenarios for wireless sensor networks, where the use of mobile sensor nodes is essential. The support of mobile...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Dynamic Topology Control for WSNs in Critical Environments
December 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
Plant automation and control are mission-critical applications and require timely and reliable data delivery, which is difficult to provide using a wireless technology. This is especially more...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Is The Financial Development And Economic Growth Relationship Nonlinear?
July 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Using nonparametric estimation techniques, the authors find that, in contrast to recent research, the finance-growth relationship is linear when the previously documented nonlinearity between...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Most of the currently deployed wireless sensor networks applications do not require performance control. The goal of the GINSENG project is sensor networks that meet application-specific...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Building Web-Based Infrastructures for Smart Meters
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Smart Meters have been massively deployed recently, in order to provide energy awareness to people, helping them reduce their electricity footprint. The authors propose a Web-based infrastructure...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Bridging the Mobile Web and the Web of Things in Urban Environments
October 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Embedded sensors are massively deployed around the world, especially in urban areas. The increasing urbanism implies advanced challenges for the citizens. Real-time sensory data is expected to...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Profit-Aware Server Allocation for Green Internet Services
February 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
A server farm is examined, where a number of servers are used to offer a service to impatient customers. Every completed request generates a certain amount of profit, running servers consume...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Evaluation of UML Based Wireless Network Virtualization
December 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
Wireless virtualization aims to support concurrent experiments on shared wireless network resources. This research is based on efforts to enhance the control structure of the wireless test bed...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing Distributed Internet Computing for IT and Scientific Research
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One vision of 21st century computing is that users will access Internet services over lightweight portable devices rather than through some descendant of the traditional desktop PC. Because users...
Provided by University of Cyprus
-
White Papers
A Hybrid Fault-Tolerant Algorithm for MPLS Networks
March 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a new fault tolerant, path maintaining, algorithm for use in MPLS based networks. The novelty of the algorithm lies upon the fact that it is the first to employ both path...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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