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Site-Controlled Secure Multi-Homing and Traffic Engineering for IP
August 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Site multi-homing is an important capability in modern military networks. Resilience of a site is greatly enhanced when it has multiple upstream connections to the Global Information Grid,...
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Enabling Mobile Networks Through Secure Naming
August 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mobile Networks are increasingly important in land-, sea and air-based military scenarios. The interest in supporting network mobility for Internet Protocol (IP) networks has led to the NEtwork...
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Mobile Networks: Naming vs.Tunnelling
March 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using data of passenger numbers and train schedules from the London Underground metropolitan railway system, the authors compare a Tunneling-based to a Naming-based approach for supporting mobile...
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Harmonised Resilience, Security and Mobility Capability for IP
September 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Military communications currently require secure end-to-end, resilient connectivity via multi-homed connections, and need to support both mobile hosts and mobile networks. Today, such functions...
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Exploiting Self-Reported Social Networks for Routing in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
August 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobile, delay-tolerant, ad hoc and pocket-switched networks may form an important part of future ubiquitous computing environments. Understanding how to efficiently and effectively route...
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Autonomic Tuning of Routing for MANETs
March 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
In Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs), timers have been widely used to maintain routing (state) information. The use of fixed-interval timers is simple to implement but, in practise, may be difficult...
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Self-Tuning Network Support for MANETs
January 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
Rapid and unpredictable topology changes and resource constraints make delivering packets in a MANET (Mobile Ad hoc NETwork) a challenging task. Routing information has to be updated to reflect...
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Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones
February 3, 2010, 12:00am PST
Continuous sensing applications (e.g., mobile social networking applications) are appearing on new sensor-enabled mobile phones such as the Apple iPhone, Nokia and Android phones. These...
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Context-Based Personalised Settings for Mobile Location Sharing
September 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Location-Based Services (LBSes) are increasing in popularity, but create many privacy concerns for users. LBSes usually rely on the same default privacy settings for all users. In this position...
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Automatic Amortised Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis
November 9, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors' research focuses on formally bounded WCET analysis, where they aim to provide absolute guarantees on execution time bounds. In this paper, they describe how amortisation can be used...
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Cloud Migration: A Case Study of Migrating an Enterprise IT System to IaaS
February 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper illustrates the potential benefits and risks associated with the migration of an IT system in the oil & gas industry from an in-house data center to Amazon EC2 from a broad variety of...
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Financial Distress In Chinese Industry: Microeconomic, Macroeconomic And Institutional Influences
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors paper the impact of both microeconomic factors and the macroeconomy on the financial distress of Chinese listed companies over a period of massive economic transition, 1995 to 2006....
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Enhancing Interns' Aspirations Towards The Labour Market Through Skill-Acquisition: The Second Chance Schools Experience
July 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Second Change School programmes are active in a number of European countries. These schools offer vulnerable young adults an alternative opportunity to enhance their employability skills by...
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On Measuring The Efficiency Of Monetary Policy
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
Cecchetti et al. (2006) develop a method for allocating macroeconomic performance changes among the structure of the economy, variability of supply shocks and monetary policy. The authors propose...
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Energy Measurement for the Cloud
May 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the aims of cloud-based services is to offer cost savings through elastic service provision. This elasticity refers to use of resources by the customer and the provision of resources by the...
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The Cloud Adoption Toolkit: Addressing the Challenges of Cloud Adoption in Enterprise
March 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing promises a radical shift in the provisioning of computing resource within enterprise. This paper describes the challenges that decision-makers face when attempting to determine the...
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A Survey of Transmission Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
July 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Firstly developed for military applications, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are currently deployed in a wide range of civil applications. The main drawback is the power constraint as it is...
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An Approach to Extending the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are energy constrained. Every operation, particularly the use of radio, reduces the energy reserves of nodes. The aim of this work is to improve the useful network...
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A Survey of Wireless Sensor Networks Technology
March 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks were first used in military missions. They are currently deployed in a wide range of civil applications as a sensor is becoming smaller and production costs are smaller....
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Responsibility Modelling For Contingency Planning
October 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a new approach to analysing and understanding contingency planning based on the notion of responsibility modelling combined with HAZOPS analysis of information requirements....
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Construction by Configuration: Challenges for Software Engineering Research and Practice
January 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
The past ten years have seen a radical shift in business application software development. Rather than developing software from scratch using a conventional programming language, the majority of...
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Social Delay-Tolerant Network Routing
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Routing in mobile delay-tolerant networks faces new challenges such as mobility and the dynamic nature of the network. Social network information may be useful for routing since mobile nodes in...
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