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Using Six Sigma to Improve IT Help Desk Customer Service
March 5, 2011, 12:00am PST
Within most organizations, the Information Technology (IT) department typically provides the infrastructure, implementation, and administration of hardware, software, networking, and database...
Provided by University of Houston
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Using Dynamic and Cascading Prompts in SAS Enterprise Guide
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
SAS 9.2 Phase 2 and Enterprise Guide 4.2 offer new and improved ways of parameterizing one's programs. Prompted selection lists can be linked to data sets so that the lists change with the...
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Teaching Wireless Sensor Networks by Incorporating Reorganization Algorithms Into the Labs
January 30, 2008, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have emerged in recent years as a topic attracting significant interest from both academia and industry. By completing a WSN lab, students can learn useful concepts...
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Exploring Wireless Sensor Network Configurations for Prolonging Network Lifetime
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes to control the distances between the cluster heads, as well as the cluster sizes to extend the network lifetime in wireless sensor networks. To the authors' best knowledge,...
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Physical Layer Security Game: Interaction Between Source, Eavesdropper and Friendly Jammer
November 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Physical layer security is an emerging security area that explores possibilities of achieving perfect secrecy data transmission between the intended network nodes, while possible malicious nodes...
Provided by University of Houston
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On the Computation of Stochastic Search Variable Selection in Linear Regression With UDFs
October 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Computing Bayesian statistics with traditional techniques is extremely slow, specially when large data has to be exported from a relational DBMS. The authors propose algorithms for large scale...
Provided by University of Houston
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Bounding and Estimating Association Rule Support From Clusters on Binary Data
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The theoretical relationship between association rules and machine learning techniques needs to be studied in more depth. This explains the use of clustering as a model for association rule...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
Discovering Frequent Pattern Pairs
June 28, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cubes and association rules discover frequent patterns in a data set, most of which are not significant. Thus previous research has introduced search constraints and statistical metrics to...
Provided by University of Houston
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Bayesian Classifiers Programmed in SQL
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The Bayesian classier is a fundamental classification technique. In this paper, the authors focus on programming Bayesian classifiers in SQL. They introduce two classifiers: Naive Bayes and a...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
Fast UDFs to Compute Sufficient Statistics on Large Data Sets Exploiting Caching and Sampling
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
User-Defined Functions (UDFs) represent an extensibility mechanism provided by most DBMSs, whose execution happens in main memory. Also, UDFs leverage the DBMS multithreaded capabilities and...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
Extended Aggregations for Databases With Referential Integrity Issues
April 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Querying databases with incomplete or inconsistent content remains a broad and difficult problem. In this paper, the authors study how to improve aggregations computed on databases with...
Provided by University of Houston
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Evaluating Join Performance on Relational Database Systems
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The join operator is fundamental in relational database systems. Evaluating join queries on large tables is challenging because records need to be efficiently matched based on a given key. In this...
Provided by University of Houston
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How Do You Properly Diagnose Harmful Collinearity In Moderated Regressions?
September 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Collinearity is inevitable in moderated regression models. Most marketing researchers diagnose collinearity using correlation-based metrics such as bivariate correlations and variance inflation...
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Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology
January 20, 2010, 12:00am PST
The primary objective of this paper is to provide with information about telecommunications and networking knowledge. This paper emphasizes the terminology and concepts relating to...
Provided by University of Houston Victoria
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Using Shared Parity Disks to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays
April 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes to increase the reliability of RAID level 5 arrays used for storing archival data. First, the authors identify groups of two or three identical RAID arrays. Second, the authors...
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Planning And Projecting Critical Human Resource Needs
October 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The U.S. Army Reserve struggles with retention and faces difficulties with soldier turnover. The intent of the study was to assess key psychological variables such as optimism and hope to...
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Multiple View Scalability of Presentations Distributed to Heterogeneous Devices
May 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a novel approach of distributing lecture video by capturing multiple region of interest video streams from a high definition camera and then distributing via a peer-to-peer...
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Improved Wireless Secrecy Rate Using Distributed Auction Theory
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Physical layer security is an emerging security area that explores possibilities of achieving perfect secrecy data transmission between the intended network nodes, while possible malicious nodes...
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Weather And Financial Risk-Taking: Is Happiness The Channel?
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Weather variables, in particular sunshine, are found to be strongly correlated with financial variables. The author considers self-reported happiness as a channel through which sunshine affects...
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Security in Cyber-Physical Systems
July 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Information Security is a domain of IT that has a well developed body of knowledge, and a cadre of practitioners with significant experience in securing IT systems. Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)...
Provided by University of Houston
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Supply Chain Management In The Petroleum Industry
November 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Supply chain management in the petroleum industry contains various challenges, specifically in the logistics area, that are not present in most other industries. These logistical challenges are a...
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Collaborative Spectrum Sensing From Sparse Observations Using Matrix Completion for Cognitive Radio Networks
January 27, 2010, 12:00am PST
In cognitive radio, spectrum sensing is a key component to detect spectrum holes (i.e., channels not used by any primary users). Collaborative spectrum sensing among the cognitive radio nodes is...
Provided by University of Houston
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Binary Inference for Primary User Separation in Cognitive Radio Networks
December 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
Spectrum sensing receives much attention recently in the Cognitive Radio (CR) network research, i.e., Secondary Users (SUs) constantly monitor channel condition to detect the presence of the...
Provided by University of Houston
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Towards Region Discovery in Spatial Datasets
January 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a novel region discovery framework geared towards finding scientifically interesting places in spatial datasets. The authors view region discovery as a clustering problem in...
Provided by University of Houston
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On Regional Association Rule Scoping
September 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A special challenge for spatial data mining is that information is not distributed uniformly in spatial data sets. Consequently, the discovery of regional knowledge is of fundamental importance....
Provided by University of Houston
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Mining Regional Knowledge in Spatial Datasets
July 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The author's research interests lie in the field of spatial data mining and its applications in geosciences and planetary sciences. Spatial data mining has been identified as a key technology to...
Provided by University of Houston
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The Case for Aggressive Partial Preloading in Broadcasting Protocols for Video-on-Demand
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Broadcasting protocols for video-on-demand usually consume over fifty percent of their bandwidth to distribute the first ten to fifteen minutes of the videos they distribute. Since all these...
Provided by University of Houston
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White Papers
Outshining Mirrors: MTTDL of Fixed-Order SSPiRAL Layouts
October 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Complementary trends in hardware and applications are driving an increase in demand for data volume and bandwidth, resulting in an increased risk of data loss and a growing need for improved...
Provided by University of Houston
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Repeated Auctions With Learning for Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks
October 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, spectrum access in cognitive radio networks is modeled as a repeated auction game subject to monitoring and entry costs. For secondary users, sensing costs are incurred as the...
Provided by University of Houston
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Logicalization of Communication Traces From Parallel Execution
September 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Communication traces are integral to performance modeling and analysis of parallel programs. However, execution on a large number of nodes results in a large trace volume that is cumbersome and...
Provided by University of Houston
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Communication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Parallel Execution
October 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
PC grids represent massive computation capacity at a low cost, but are challenging to employ for parallel computing because of variable and unpredictable performance and availability. A...
Provided by University of Houston
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A Referential Integrity Browser for Distributed Databases
June 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors demonstrate a program that can inspect a distributed relational database on the Internet to discover and quantify referential integrity issues for integration purposes. The program...
Provided by University of Houston
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Object-Oriented Approach in Representing the English Grammar and Parsing
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using a natural language to communicate is an important requirement for any artificial intelligence program. This paper defines the purpose of the communication problem and presents its three...
Provided by University of Houston
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Sparse Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Compressive Sensing
March 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
Compressive sensing is a revolutionary idea proposed recently to achieve much lower sampling rate for sparse signals. For large wireless sensor networks, the events are relatively sparse compared...
Provided by University of Houston
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Detection and Punishment of Malicious Wireless Stations in IEEE 802.11e EDCA Network
April 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a malicious detection algorithm that permits identification of misbehaving wireless stations, and then meting out punishment by not supplying an ACK packet permitting...
Provided by University of Houston
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A Multiplayer Real-Time Game Protocol Architecture for Reducing Network Latency
September 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Multiplayer, real-time games have become a huge commercial service. Because of this success, the need exists for a more efficient and reliable game server solution. Such games are a kind of soft...
Provided by University of Houston
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An Analysis of Chaining Protocols for Video-on-Demand
November 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Chaining protocols for video-on-demand require each client to forward the video data it receives to the next client watching the same video. The authors present here the first analytical...
Provided by University of Houston
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Content Aware Burst Assembly - Supporting Telesurgery and Telemedicine in Optical Burst Switching Networks
March 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
The emerging telemedicine and telesurgery technologies allow patients to share medical experts remotely through communication networks. However, network bandwidth, network latency and jitter...
Provided by University of Houston
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Coalition Formation Games for Relay Transmission: Stability Analysis Under Uncertainty
December 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
Relay transmission or cooperative communication is an advanced technique that can improve the performance of data transmission among wireless nodes. However, while the performance (e.g.,...
Provided by University of Houston
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Impact of Packet Loss on Power Demand Estimation and Power Supply Cost in Smart Grid
December 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
The evolving smart grid will use advanced data communications and networking techniques to improve efficiency and reliability of electric power generation, transmission, distribution, and...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
Evaluating Join Performance on Relational Database Systems
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The join operator is fundamental in relational database systems. Evaluating join queries on large tables is challenging because records need to be efficiently matched based on a given key. In this...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
Extended Aggregations for Databases With Referential Integrity Issues
April 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Querying databases with incomplete or inconsistent content remains a broad and difficult problem. In this paper, the authors study how to improve aggregations computed on databases with...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
Fast UDFs to Compute Sufficient Statistics on Large Data Sets Exploiting Caching and Sampling
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
User-Defined Functions (UDFs) represent an extensibility mechanism provided by most DBMSs, whose execution happens in main memory. Also, UDFs leverage the DBMS multithreaded capabilities and...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
Bayesian Classifiers Programmed in SQL
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The Bayesian classier is a fundamental classification technique. In this paper, the authors focus on programming Bayesian classifiers in SQL. They introduce two classifiers: Naive Bayes and a...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
Discovering Frequent Pattern Pairs
June 28, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cubes and association rules discover frequent patterns in a data set, most of which are not significant. Thus previous research has introduced search constraints and statistical metrics to...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
Bounding and Estimating Association Rule Support From Clusters on Binary Data
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The theoretical relationship between association rules and machine learning techniques needs to be studied in more depth. This explains the use of clustering as a model for association rule...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
On the Computation of Stochastic Search Variable Selection in Linear Regression With UDFs
October 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Computing Bayesian statistics with traditional techniques is extremely slow, specially when large data has to be exported from a relational DBMS. The authors propose algorithms for large scale...
Provided by University of Houston
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SenGuard: Passive User Identification on Smartphones Using Multiple Sensors
August 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
User identification and access control have become a high demand feature on mobile devices because those devices are wildly used by employees in corporations and government agencies for business...
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Using a Shared Storage Class Memory Device to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays
November 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Storage Class Memories (SCMs) constitute an emerging class of non-volatile storage devices that promise to be significantly faster and more reliable than magnetic disks. The authors propose to add...
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Robust Coverage Under Uncertainty in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been employed in monitoring the health of civil structures, tracking objects, studying the wild life habitat, among others. One critical measure of the Quality...
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Butterflies in the Mesh: Lightweight Localized Wireless Network Coding
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, BFLY-a lightweight localized network coding protocol for wireless mesh networks-is proposed. To supplement forwarding packets in classical networks, intermediate wireless nodes code...
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A Two-Tier Market for Decentralized Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks
May 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Market mechanisms have been exploited as important means for spectrum acquisition and access in cognitive radio networks. In this paper, the authors propose a two-tier market for decentralized...
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Toward Optimal Data Aggregation in Random Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Fueled by the increasing capability and decreasing cost of computing and communication devices, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) hold the promise of revolutionizing a wide range of application...
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Robust Channel Assignment for Link-Level Resource Provision in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Networks
October 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors investigate the problem of link-level resource provision in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel (MR-MC) wireless networks. To quantify robustness of resource provision schemes,...
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WiserAnalyzer: A Passive Monitoring Framework for WLANs
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Due to low hardware costs, availability of unlicensed spectrums and support of mobility, WLANs have been widely adopted in home, enterprise, hospital, and campus environments. These networks are...
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Resource Allocation for Multiuser Cooperative OFDM Networks: Who Helps Whom and How to Cooperate
August 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative transmissions have been shown to be able to greatly improve system performance by exploring the broadcasting nature of wireless channels and cooperation among users. The authors focus,...
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Auction-Based Resource Allocation for Cooperative Video Transmission Protocols Over Wireless Networks
May 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative transmission has been proposed as a novel transmission strategy that takes advantage of broadcast nature of wireless networks, forms virtual MIMO system, and provides diversity gains....
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White Papers
Using Six Sigma to Improve IT Help Desk Customer Service
March 5, 2011, 12:00am PST
Within most organizations, the Information Technology (IT) department typically provides the infrastructure, implementation, and administration of hardware, software, networking, and database...
Provided by University of Houston
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White Papers
Coalitional Games for Distributed Eavesdroppers Cooperation in Wireless Networks
June 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Physical layer security aspects of wireless networks have recently attracted an increased attention due to the emergence of large-scale decentralized networks. While most existing literature...
Provided by University of Houston
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White Papers
Improved Wireless Secrecy Capacity Using Distributed Auction Theory
January 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
Physical layer security is an emerging security area that explores possibilities of achieving perfect secrecy data transmission between the intended network nodes, while possible malicious nodes...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Impact of Packet Loss on Power Demand Estimation and Power Supply Cost in Smart Grid
December 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
The evolving smart grid will use advanced data communications and networking techniques to improve efficiency and reliability of electric power generation, transmission, distribution, and...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Coalition Formation Games for Relay Transmission: Stability Analysis Under Uncertainty
December 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
Relay transmission or cooperative communication is an advanced technique that can improve the performance of data transmission among wireless nodes. However, while the performance (e.g.,...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Content Aware Burst Assembly - Supporting Telesurgery and Telemedicine in Optical Burst Switching Networks
March 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
The emerging telemedicine and telesurgery technologies allow patients to share medical experts remotely through communication networks. However, network bandwidth, network latency and jitter...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
An Analysis of Chaining Protocols for Video-on-Demand
November 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Chaining protocols for video-on-demand require each client to forward the video data it receives to the next client watching the same video. The authors present here the first analytical...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
A Multiplayer Real-Time Game Protocol Architecture for Reducing Network Latency
September 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Multiplayer, real-time games have become a huge commercial service. Because of this success, the need exists for a more efficient and reliable game server solution. Such games are a kind of soft...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Detection and Punishment of Malicious Wireless Stations in IEEE 802.11e EDCA Network
April 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a malicious detection algorithm that permits identification of misbehaving wireless stations, and then meting out punishment by not supplying an ACK packet permitting...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Sparse Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Compressive Sensing
March 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
Compressive sensing is a revolutionary idea proposed recently to achieve much lower sampling rate for sparse signals. For large wireless sensor networks, the events are relatively sparse compared...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Object-Oriented Approach in Representing the English Grammar and Parsing
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using a natural language to communicate is an important requirement for any artificial intelligence program. This paper defines the purpose of the communication problem and presents its three...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
A Referential Integrity Browser for Distributed Databases
June 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors demonstrate a program that can inspect a distributed relational database on the Internet to discover and quantify referential integrity issues for integration purposes. The program...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Communication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Parallel Execution
October 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
PC grids represent massive computation capacity at a low cost, but are challenging to employ for parallel computing because of variable and unpredictable performance and availability. A...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Logicalization of Communication Traces From Parallel Execution
September 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Communication traces are integral to performance modeling and analysis of parallel programs. However, execution on a large number of nodes results in a large trace volume that is cumbersome and...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Repeated Auctions With Learning for Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks
October 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, spectrum access in cognitive radio networks is modeled as a repeated auction game subject to monitoring and entry costs. For secondary users, sensing costs are incurred as the...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Outshining Mirrors: MTTDL of Fixed-Order SSPiRAL Layouts
October 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Complementary trends in hardware and applications are driving an increase in demand for data volume and bandwidth, resulting in an increased risk of data loss and a growing need for improved...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
The Case for Aggressive Partial Preloading in Broadcasting Protocols for Video-on-Demand
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Broadcasting protocols for video-on-demand usually consume over fifty percent of their bandwidth to distribute the first ten to fifteen minutes of the videos they distribute. Since all these...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Mining Regional Knowledge in Spatial Datasets
July 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The author's research interests lie in the field of spatial data mining and its applications in geosciences and planetary sciences. Spatial data mining has been identified as a key technology to...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
On Regional Association Rule Scoping
September 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A special challenge for spatial data mining is that information is not distributed uniformly in spatial data sets. Consequently, the discovery of regional knowledge is of fundamental importance....
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Towards Region Discovery in Spatial Datasets
January 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a novel region discovery framework geared towards finding scientifically interesting places in spatial datasets. The authors view region discovery as a clustering problem in...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Binary Inference for Primary User Separation in Cognitive Radio Networks
December 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
Spectrum sensing receives much attention recently in the Cognitive Radio (CR) network research, i.e., Secondary Users (SUs) constantly monitor channel condition to detect the presence of the...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Collaborative Spectrum Sensing From Sparse Observations Using Matrix Completion for Cognitive Radio Networks
January 27, 2010, 12:00am PST
In cognitive radio, spectrum sensing is a key component to detect spectrum holes (i.e., channels not used by any primary users). Collaborative spectrum sensing among the cognitive radio nodes is...
Provided by University of Houston
-
White Papers
Security in Cyber-Physical Systems
July 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Information Security is a domain of IT that has a well developed body of knowledge, and a cadre of practitioners with significant experience in securing IT systems. Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)...
Provided by University of Houston
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