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E-Mail Spam Filtering With Local SVM Classifiers
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes an e-mail spam filter based on local SVM, namely on the SVM classifier trained only on a neighborhood of the message to be classified, and not on the whole training data...
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Architectures and Cross-Layer Design for Cognitive Networks
April 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Network evolution towards self-aware autonomous adaptive networking attempts to overcome the inefficiency of configuring and managing networks, which leads to performance degradation. In order to...
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Characterizing User Behavior and Network Load on a Large-Scale Wireless Mesh Network
December 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless mesh networks represent a promising paradigm to provide a scalable infrastructure for Internet access in metropolitan areas. In this paper, a large-scale wireless mesh testbed deployed in...
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Cognitive Information Service: Basic Principles and Implementation of a Cognitive Inter-Node Protocol Optimization Scheme
March 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Cognitive networks are becoming extremely popular in the network domain. This paper proposes a novel concept in cognitive network management and protocol configuration, where any protocol of the...
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Cognitive Link Layer for Wireless Local Area Networks
October 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Several attempts have been made to optimize a link layer of wireless local area networks. Most of them focus on one parameter at a time and propose optimizing approaches which rely on network...
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When Security Meets Software Engineering: A Case of Modelling
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Although security is a crucial issue for information systems, traditionally, it is considered after the definition of the system. This approach often leads to problems, which most of the times...
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Analyzing Business Continuity Through a Multi-Layers Model
July 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a process to manage risks, emergencies, and recovery plans of an organization during a crisis. It results in a document called Business Continuity Plans...
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Extending the Java Virtual Machine to Enforce Fine-Grained Security Policies in Mobile Devices
September 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The growth of the applications and services market for mobile devices is currently slowed down by the lack of a flexible and reliable security infrastructure. The development and adoption of a new...
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Planning and Monitoring Web Service Composition
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The ability to automatically compose web services, and to monitor their execution, is an essential step to substantially decrease time and costs in the development, integration, and maintenance of...
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Performance Analysis of Wireless Ad-Hoc Network Based on EDCA IEEE802.11e
November 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
IEEE 802.11e is the enhanced version of the IEEE 802.11 MAC dedicated to provide Quality of Service of wireless network. It supports QoS by the service differentiation and prioritization...
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Product Innovation And Firm Growth: Evidence From The Integrated Circuits Industry
October 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Applied research on growth and innovation seems to suggest that successful innovations do not significantly enhance firm growth. This paper tests the hypothesis that the level of observation at...
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Supporting Publication and Subscription Confidentiality in Pub/Sub Networks
January 4, 2011, 12:00am PST
The publish/subscribe model offers a loosely-coupled communication paradigm where applications interact indirectly and asynchronously. Publisher applications generate events that are sent to...
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Clean Answers Over Dirty Databases: A Probabilistic Approach
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The detection of duplicate tuples, corresponding to the same real-world entity, is an important task in data integration and cleaning. While many techniques exist to identify such tuples, the...
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Consumer-Specified Service License Selection and Composition
November 16, 2007, 12:00am PST
Service oriented computing represents the convergence of technology with an understanding of cross organizational business processes. A service license describes the terms and conditions for the...
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Two-Layered Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Concept Search
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Peer-to-peer search is an alternative to address the scalability concerns regarding centralized search, due to its inherent scalability in terms of computational resources. Concept search is an...
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GRAPES: A Generic Environment for P2P Streaming
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Practical implementation of new P2P streaming systems require a lot of coding and is often tedious and costly, slowing down the technology transfer from the research community to real users....
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FiGaRo: Fine-Grained Software Reconfiguration for Wireless Sensor Networks
November 14, 2007, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are increasingly being proposed in scenarios whose requirements cannot be fully predicted, or where the system functionality must adapt to changing conditions. In...
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Reviewing Peer Review: A Quantitative Analysis of Peer Review
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors focus on the analysis of peer reviews and reviewers behavior in a number of different review processes. More specifically, they report on the development, definition and...
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Reasoning About Contextual Requirements for Mobile Information Systems: A Goal-Based Approach
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Mobile information systems are characterized by their ability to adapt to varying contexts. There is a strong relationship between the requirements of a mobile information system and its...
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Contextual Goal Models
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In emerging computing paradigms, such as mobile, ubiquitous, and pervasive computing, the relation between context and requirements is evident. Context might be a main factor to determine the set...
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A Goal-Based Framework for Contextual Requirements Modeling and Analysis
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Requirements Engineering (RE) research often ignores, or presumes a uniform nature of the context in which the system operates. This assumption is no longer valid in emerging computing paradigms,...
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Tales Of Ordinary Leadership. A Feminist Approach To Experiential Learning
February 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Feminist practice and theory have always conferred value on narrative knowledge produced through storytelling, mainly because of its ability to stimulate reflexive thought. In the authors'...
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Cloudy Weather for P2P, With a Chance of Gossip
July 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) and cloud computing, two of the Internet trends of the last decade, hold similar promises: the (virtually) infinite availability of computing and storage resources. But there...
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Managing Wireless HotSpots: The Unify Approach
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents and discusses user, account, and traffic management in a WLAN based HotSpot. The HotSpot is a large WLAN infrastructure at the Faculty of Science of the University of Trento...
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Application-Aware Dynamic Retransmission Control in Mobile Cellular Networks
March 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes an application-aware cross-layer approach between application/transport layers on the mobile terminal and link layer at the wireless base station to enable dynamic control on...
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Receiver-Driven Queue Management for Achieving RTT-Fairness in Wi-Fi Networks
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors introduce a novel queue management technique for the buffer space at the base station of infrastructure 802.11 networks that considers mobile user's receiving...
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Emulating Multi-Hop Wireless Networks Over a Planetary Scale Testbed
April 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The most commonly used technique to evaluate novel solutions is to leverage on simulation studies which are largely based on a simplified model of the system behavior. Such an approach provides an...
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Rediscovering Fiscal Policy Through Minskyan Eyes
January 11, 2008, 12:00am PST
Recent developments in macroeconomic policy, both in terms of theory and practice, have elevated monetary policy while fiscal policy has been downgraded. The latter is rarely mentioned in policy...
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MVSink: Incrementally Building In-Network Aggregation Trees
November 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
In-network data aggregation is widely recognized as an acceptable means to reduce the amount of transmitted data without adversely affecting the quality of the results. To date, most aggregation...
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Towards Knowledge in the Cloud
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Knowledge in the form of semantic data is becoming more and more ubiquitous, and the need for scalable, dynamic systems to support collaborative work with such distributed, heterogeneous knowledge...
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Glocal Multimedia Retrieval
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Personal experience is intrinsically local while common knowledge is global. As a consequence, standard multimedia search engines suffer from a gap between local content and global concept, due to...
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A Linear Multi-User Detector for STBC MCCDMA Systems Based on the Adaptive Implementation of the Minimum-Conditional Bit- Error-Rate Criterion and on Genetic Algorithmassisted MMSE Channel Estimation
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The implementation of efficient baseband receivers characterized by affordable computational load is a crucial point in the development of transmission systems exploiting diversity in different...
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A GSM Signals Based Positioning Technique for Mobile Applications
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A mobile positioning system based on GSM signals analysis and on a cooperative stochastic optimization algorithm is presented. The proposed technique is intended as a backup solution in those...
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HyperCBR: Large-Scale Content-Based Routing in a Multidimensional Space
March 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Content-Based Routing (CBR) is becoming increasingly popular as a building block for distributed applications. CBR differs from classical routing paradigms as messages are routed based on their...
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WING/WORLD: An Open Experimental Toolkit for the Design and Deployment of IEEE 802.11-Based Wireless Mesh Networks Testbeds
November 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Wireless Mesh Networks represent an interesting instance of light-infrastructure wireless networks. Due to their flexibility and resiliency to network failures, wireless mesh networks are...
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Group Monitoring in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
May 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The need to monitor groups of mobile entities arises in many application contexts. Examples include the study of the social behavior of humans and wildlife, the shepherding of livestock, the care...
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MUSTER: Adaptive Energy-Aware Multi-Sink Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
November 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are increasingly proposed for applications characterized by many-to-many communication, where multiple sources report their data to multiple sinks. Unfortunately,...
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Dynamic Load Balancing in WDM Networks
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper new load balancing techniques are proposed based on IP-like routing, where the forwarding mechanism is only driven by the destination address. The aim of this work is to consider the...
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Simulating BDI-Based Wireless Sensor Networks
June 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Autonomic systems merge advancements in the field of multi-agent software design, dynamic analysis, and decentralized control in order to assist designers in constructing complex distributed...
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Object Tracking Through RSSI Measurements in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the localization of moving and transceiver-free objects is addressed by processing the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) available at the nodes of a Wireless Sensor Network...
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Cognitive Link Layer for Wireless Local Area Networks
October 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Several attempts have been made to optimize a link layer of wireless local area networks. Most of them focus on one parameter at a time and propose optimizing approaches which rely on network...
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Cognitive Information Service: Basic Principles and Implementation of a Cognitive Inter-Node Protocol Optimization Scheme
March 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Cognitive networks are becoming extremely popular in the network domain. This paper proposes a novel concept in cognitive network management and protocol configuration, where any protocol of the...
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Characterizing User Behavior and Network Load on a Large-Scale Wireless Mesh Network
December 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless mesh networks represent a promising paradigm to provide a scalable infrastructure for Internet access in metropolitan areas. In this paper, a large-scale wireless mesh testbed deployed in...
Provided by University of Trento
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Architectures and Cross-Layer Design for Cognitive Networks
April 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Network evolution towards self-aware autonomous adaptive networking attempts to overcome the inefficiency of configuring and managing networks, which leads to performance degradation. In order to...
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CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution
August 9, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In the last years there has been a considerable increase in the availability of continuous sensor measurements in a wide range of application domains, such as Location-Based Services (LBS),...
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What Does Model-Driven Data Acquisition Really Achieve in Wireless Sensor Networks?
February 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Model-driven data acquisition techniques aim at reducing the amount of data reported, and therefore the energy consumed, in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). At each node, a model predicts the...
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Security Requirements Engineering: The SI* Modeling Language and the Secure Tropos Methodology
May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Security Requirements Engineering is an emerging field which lies at the crossroads of Security and Software Engineering. Much research has focused on this field in recent years, spurred by the...
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GREENET - An Early Stage Training Network in Enabling Technologies for Green Radio
November 29, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors describe GREENET (an early stage training network in enabling technologies for green radio), which is a new project recently funded by the European Commission under the...
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On the Optimal Scheduling of Streaming Applications in Unstructured Meshes
December 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
P2P streaming and in particular P2P support for IP-TV are becoming not only hot research topics, but also available systems and services. Fundamental to support live streaming is the guarantee of...
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Time-Driven Switching Blocking Analysis: A Single Node Case
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a closed-form time-domain analysis of the blocking probability of Time-Driven Switching (TDS) for the single node case. In this work blocking is defined as the occurrence in...
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Streaming in Car-to-Car Networks: Proposal and Stochastic Graph Process Evaluation
October 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a novel protocol for the support of audio/video streaming in a vehicular network. The protocol is based on localization and timing, both of them obtained via satellite...
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Feedback Scheduling in Wireless LANs
August 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an optimal controller for the scheduling of real time traffic in 802.11e Wireless LANs. The problem is defined as a standard control problem, starting from a discrete event...
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Security and Privacy Issues in P2P Streaming Systems: A Survey
August 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Streaming applications over Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems have gained an enormous popularity. Success always implies increased concerns about security, protection, privacy and all the other 'Side'...
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Achieving Performance and Robustness in P2P Streaming Systems
August 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper present a thorough and homogeneous comparison of chunk and peer selection strategies suitable for mesh-based, live, P2P streaming applications. Strategies are studied in a context of...
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Solving Performance Issues in Anonymization Overlays With a L3 Approach
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Anonymization (Mix) networks are based on the delivery of messages through a sequence of overlay hops devised to avoid end-to-end linkage of the information, thus protecting users' identities...
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Privacy in the Pervasive Era: A Distributed Firewall Approach
December 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a novel protocol for the support of audio/video streaming in a vehicular network. The protocol is based on localization and timing, both of them obtained via satellite...
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Towards Business Processes Orchestrating the Physical Enterprise With Wireless Sensor Networks
April 23, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The industrial adoption of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is hampered by two main factors. First, there is a lack of integration of WSNs with business process modeling languages and back-ends....
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Towards a Quantitative Assessment of Security in Software Architectures
September 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Software patterns are key building blocks used to construct the architecture of a software system. Patterns also have an important role during the architecture assessment phase, as they represent...
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Entity Name System: The Back-Bone of an Open and Scalable Web of Data
May 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recognizing that information from different sources refers to the same (real world) entity is a crucial challenge in instance-level information integration, as it is a pre-requisite for combining...
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Synthesis and Optimization of Pre-Fractal Multiband Antennas
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The growing demand of electronic products employing several wireless standards for data exchange, working in different frequency bands, requires the adoption of multi-band components and devices....
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Optimized Design of a Multi-Function/Multi-Band Antenna for Automotive Rescue Systems
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The development of efficient automotive accident management systems requires the design of complex multi-function antennas enabling different wireless services (e.g., localization, voice and data...
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Maximizing Sensing Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks Through Optimal Scattering of Wake-Up Times
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) often rely on dutycycling, alternating periods of low-power stand-by with others where sensing, computation, and communication are performed. Duty-cycling brings...
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Towards the Integration of Knowledge Organization Systems With the Linked Data Cloud
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In representing the shared view of all the people involved, building a Knowledge Organization System (KOS) from scratch is extremely costly, and it is therefore fundamental to reuse existing...
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Passive Real-Time Localization Through Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Localization and tracking play a key role in several applications both civilian and military. The growing needs of remote monitoring private and public areas caused a fast development of wireless...
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Efficient Coverage Optimization in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of optimizing the area coverage of a wireless sensor network under energy consumption constraints. Following existing approaches, they use a mixed integer linear...
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Object Tracking Through RSSI Measurements in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the localization of moving and transceiver-free objects is addressed by processing the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) available at the nodes of a Wireless Sensor Network...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
Simulating BDI-Based Wireless Sensor Networks
June 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Autonomic systems merge advancements in the field of multi-agent software design, dynamic analysis, and decentralized control in order to assist designers in constructing complex distributed...
Provided by University of Trento
-
White Papers
MUSTER: Adaptive Energy-Aware Multi-Sink Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
November 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are increasingly proposed for applications characterized by many-to-many communication, where multiple sources report their data to multiple sinks. Unfortunately,...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
Group Monitoring in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
May 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The need to monitor groups of mobile entities arises in many application contexts. Examples include the study of the social behavior of humans and wildlife, the shepherding of livestock, the care...
Provided by University of Trento
-
White Papers
WING/WORLD: An Open Experimental Toolkit for the Design and Deployment of IEEE 802.11-Based Wireless Mesh Networks Testbeds
November 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Wireless Mesh Networks represent an interesting instance of light-infrastructure wireless networks. Due to their flexibility and resiliency to network failures, wireless mesh networks are...
Provided by University of Trento
-
White Papers
HyperCBR: Large-Scale Content-Based Routing in a Multidimensional Space
March 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Content-Based Routing (CBR) is becoming increasingly popular as a building block for distributed applications. CBR differs from classical routing paradigms as messages are routed based on their...
Provided by University of Trento
-
White Papers
A GSM Signals Based Positioning Technique for Mobile Applications
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A mobile positioning system based on GSM signals analysis and on a cooperative stochastic optimization algorithm is presented. The proposed technique is intended as a backup solution in those...
Provided by University of Trento
-
White Papers
A Linear Multi-User Detector for STBC MCCDMA Systems Based on the Adaptive Implementation of the Minimum-Conditional Bit- Error-Rate Criterion and on Genetic Algorithmassisted MMSE Channel Estimation
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The implementation of efficient baseband receivers characterized by affordable computational load is a crucial point in the development of transmission systems exploiting diversity in different...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
Glocal Multimedia Retrieval
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Personal experience is intrinsically local while common knowledge is global. As a consequence, standard multimedia search engines suffer from a gap between local content and global concept, due to...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
Towards Knowledge in the Cloud
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Knowledge in the form of semantic data is becoming more and more ubiquitous, and the need for scalable, dynamic systems to support collaborative work with such distributed, heterogeneous knowledge...
Provided by University of Trento
-
White Papers
MVSink: Incrementally Building In-Network Aggregation Trees
November 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
In-network data aggregation is widely recognized as an acceptable means to reduce the amount of transmitted data without adversely affecting the quality of the results. To date, most aggregation...
Provided by University of Trento
-
White Papers
Rediscovering Fiscal Policy Through Minskyan Eyes
January 11, 2008, 12:00am PST
Recent developments in macroeconomic policy, both in terms of theory and practice, have elevated monetary policy while fiscal policy has been downgraded. The latter is rarely mentioned in policy...
Provided by University of Trento
-
White Papers
Emulating Multi-Hop Wireless Networks Over a Planetary Scale Testbed
April 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The most commonly used technique to evaluate novel solutions is to leverage on simulation studies which are largely based on a simplified model of the system behavior. Such an approach provides an...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
Receiver-Driven Queue Management for Achieving RTT-Fairness in Wi-Fi Networks
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors introduce a novel queue management technique for the buffer space at the base station of infrastructure 802.11 networks that considers mobile user's receiving...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
Application-Aware Dynamic Retransmission Control in Mobile Cellular Networks
March 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes an application-aware cross-layer approach between application/transport layers on the mobile terminal and link layer at the wireless base station to enable dynamic control on...
Provided by University of Trento
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