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Formatting Instructions for Educational Data Mining Conference
March 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper contains instructions for formatting papers for the International Conference on Educational Data Mining. One's life will be much easier if one reads this paper and uses the Styles that...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Ensuring Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing
April 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud Computing has been envisioned as the next-generation architecture of IT Enterprise. In contrast to traditional solutions, where the IT services are under proper physical, logical and...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Network Performance Evaluation in a Web Browser
November 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Web browser is increasingly used for emerging applications such as online games and streaming audio/ video. End users seeking better quality for these applications need methods to ascertain...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Network Characteristics for Server Selection in Online Games
November 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
With the growth of internet, there has been an increase in the interest and importance of online games. Online game play, a booming industry, is impacted by the network characteristics of players...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Toward a Sustainable Email Marketing Infrastructure
November 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
Email marketing is a legitimate, lucrative, and widely used business tool, but it is in danger of being overrun by unwanted commercial email (also known as spam). Conventional approaches to...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
Elliptic Curve Cryptography on Smart Cardswithout Coprocessors
October 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This contribution describes how an elliptic curve cryptosystem can be implemented on very low cost microprocessors with reasonable performance. They focus in this paper on the Intel 8051 family of...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
CHAP Credit-Based Home Access Point for Overall Application QoS Improvement
February 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Wireless APs have become very popular in networking multiple devices at home and allow multiple individuals to share the Internet connections, doing different tasks simultaneously. People use not...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
Secure and Dependable Distributed Data Storage and Access Control in Mission-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks
February 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
Distributed data storage and access in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) recently has found increased popularity driven by many mission-critical applications. While WSN security has been extensively...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
Measuring Queue Capacities of IEEE 802.11 Wireless Access Points
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
While queue capacities have a direct impact on loss and latency during congestion, and wireless networks continue to spread in university, corporate and home networks, little is publicly known...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Analysis of an IEEE 802.11 Network Activity During a Small Workshop
April 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Understanding current performance and usage of IEEE 802.11 networks is valuable for effectively managing and deploying wireless networks in the future. This paper analyzes a wireless trace from...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
Scalability and Robustness in the Domain of Web-Based Tutoring
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Web-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems distribute content using a server based infrastructure. These systems need to be easily accessible to provide a reliable and scalable architecture for...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
Anonymous ID-Based Group Key Agreement for Wireless Networks
January 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
Popularity of group-oriented applications motivates research on security and privacy protection for group communications. A number of group key agreement protocols exploiting ID-based cryptosystem...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Business Intelligence for Financial Risk Management
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper evaluated the implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) platforms and alternative visualization techniques for risk management in fixed income trading at the sponsor, BNP Paribas....
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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On Broadcast Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have enabled data gathering from a vast geographical region, and present unprecedented opportunities for a wide range of tracking and monitoring applications from...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Multi-Rate Geographic Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
August 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Routing in wireless ad hoc networks is challenging mainly due to unreliable wireless links/channels. Geographic Opportunistic Routing (GOR) was proposed to cope with the unreliable transmissions...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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On Geographic Collaborative Forwarding in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the Geographic Collaborative Forwarding (GCF) scheme, a variant of opportunistic routing, which exploits the broadcast nature and spatial diversity of the wireless...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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On End-to-End Throughput of Opportunistic Routing in Multirate and Multihop Wireless Networks
April 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Routing in multi-hop wireless networks presents a great challenge mainly due to unreliable wireless links and interference among concurrent transmissions. Recently, a new routing paradigm,...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
How's My Network? A Java Approach to Home Network Measurement
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
As part of a project to develop a user-centered network measurement platform that limits impediments to participation, this work focuses on using the execution of a signed Java applet for home...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Treatment-Based Traffic Signatures
June 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Today's Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) concurrently support a plethora of user applications with diverse connectivity and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Wireless traffic flows...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Novel PUF-Based Error Detection Methods in Finite State Machines
November 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors propose a number of techniques for securing Finite State Machines (FSMs) against fault injection attacks. The proposed security mechanisms are based on Physically Unclonable Functions...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
Defending Against Key Abuse Attacks in KP-ABE Enabled Broadcast Systems
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Key-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (KP-ABE) is a promising cryptographic primitive which enables fine-grained access control over sensitive data. However, key abuse attacks in KP-ABE may impede...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
R-Code: Network Coding Based Reliable Broadcast in Wireless Mesh Networks With Unreliable Links
September 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Broadcast is an important primitive in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). Applications like network-wide software update require reliable reception of the content with low-latency and high scalability...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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CodePlay: Live Multimedia Streaming in VANETs Using Symbol-Level Network Coding
August 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Live Multimedia Streaming (LMS) services are important in Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) for their capability of providing comprehensive and user-friendly information. The fundamental...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
Distributed Data Mining With Differential Privacy
February 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
With recent advances in communication and data storage technology, an explosive amount of information is being collected and stored in the Internet. Even though such vast amount of information...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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WBest: A Bandwidth Estimation Tool for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
July 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Bandwidth estimation techniques seek to provide an accurate estimation of available bandwidth such that network applications can adjust their behavior accordingly. However, most current techniques...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Packet Dispersion in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Packet dispersion techniques have been commonly used to estimate bandwidth in wired networks. However, current packet dispersion techniques were developed for wired network environments and can...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Energy Analysis of Four Wireless Sensor Network MAC Protocols
December 27, 2010, 12:00am PST
Using the MAC Layer Architecture framework, four power-aware MAC protocols were implemented in TinyOS on TelosB motes. Indoor energy measurements over a single-hop network topology were conducted...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Access Point Tuning in Chaotic Wireless Networks
December 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
In dense wireless environments a large number of WLANs may overlap and interfere with one another. This paper reports on two wireless measurement experiments designed to study Access Point (AP)...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Sidelobe Suppression for OFDM-Based Cognitive Radios Using Constellation Expansion
January 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a novel algorithm for reducing sidelobe interference power levels in OFDM-based cognitive radios. Existing techniques for sidelobe suppression can be...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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OFDM Symbol Design for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction Employing Non-Data Bearing Subcarriers
January 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a novel Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction algorithm for OFDM systems employing a symbol balancing approach with several Non-Data Bearing (NDB)...
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Impact of Group Cooperation Over Competitive Secondary Subnetworks
June 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors examine dynamic spectrum sharing between several networks of licensed and unlicensed users wherein the unlicensed user subnetworks compete against other unlicensed...
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Automatic Physical Database Tuning Middleware for Web-Based Applications
June 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors conceptualize the database layout problem as a state space search problem. A state is a given assignment of tables to computer servers. They begin with a database and...
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Join Minimization in XML-to-SQL Translation: An Algebraic Approach
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Consider an XML view defined over a relational database, and a user query specified over this view. This user XML query is typically processed using the following steps: the translator maps the...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
Semantic Query Optimization for Processing XML Streams With Minimized Memory Footprint
February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
XQuery evaluation over XML streams requires the temporary buffering of XML elements. This paper presents a semantic query optimization solution to minimize memory footprint during XQuery...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
Automaton in or Out: Run-Time Plan Optimization for XML Stream Processing
February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
Many systems such as Tukwila and YFilter combine automaton and algebra techniques to process queries over tokenized XML streams. Typically in this architecture, an automaton is first used to...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
An Optimized Two-Step Solution for Updating XML Views
December 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes an efficient solution for the XML view update problem. A progressive translatability checking approach is used to guarantee that only translatable updates are fed into the...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
Automatic Physical Database Tuning Middleware for Web-Based Applications
June 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors conceptualize the database layout problem as a state space search problem. A state is a given assignment of tables to computer servers. They begin with a database and...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Impact of Group Cooperation Over Competitive Secondary Subnetworks
June 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors examine dynamic spectrum sharing between several networks of licensed and unlicensed users wherein the unlicensed user subnetworks compete against other unlicensed...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
OFDM Symbol Design for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction Employing Non-Data Bearing Subcarriers
January 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a novel Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction algorithm for OFDM systems employing a symbol balancing approach with several Non-Data Bearing (NDB)...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Sidelobe Suppression for OFDM-Based Cognitive Radios Using Constellation Expansion
January 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a novel algorithm for reducing sidelobe interference power levels in OFDM-based cognitive radios. Existing techniques for sidelobe suppression can be...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Access Point Tuning in Chaotic Wireless Networks
December 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
In dense wireless environments a large number of WLANs may overlap and interfere with one another. This paper reports on two wireless measurement experiments designed to study Access Point (AP)...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Energy Analysis of Four Wireless Sensor Network MAC Protocols
December 27, 2010, 12:00am PST
Using the MAC Layer Architecture framework, four power-aware MAC protocols were implemented in TinyOS on TelosB motes. Indoor energy measurements over a single-hop network topology were conducted...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Packet Dispersion in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Packet dispersion techniques have been commonly used to estimate bandwidth in wired networks. However, current packet dispersion techniques were developed for wired network environments and can...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
WBest: A Bandwidth Estimation Tool for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
July 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Bandwidth estimation techniques seek to provide an accurate estimation of available bandwidth such that network applications can adjust their behavior accordingly. However, most current techniques...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Distributed Data Mining With Differential Privacy
February 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
With recent advances in communication and data storage technology, an explosive amount of information is being collected and stored in the Internet. Even though such vast amount of information...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
CodePlay: Live Multimedia Streaming in VANETs Using Symbol-Level Network Coding
August 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Live Multimedia Streaming (LMS) services are important in Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) for their capability of providing comprehensive and user-friendly information. The fundamental...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
R-Code: Network Coding Based Reliable Broadcast in Wireless Mesh Networks With Unreliable Links
September 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Broadcast is an important primitive in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). Applications like network-wide software update require reliable reception of the content with low-latency and high scalability...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Defending Against Key Abuse Attacks in KP-ABE Enabled Broadcast Systems
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Key-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (KP-ABE) is a promising cryptographic primitive which enables fine-grained access control over sensitive data. However, key abuse attacks in KP-ABE may impede...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Novel PUF-Based Error Detection Methods in Finite State Machines
November 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors propose a number of techniques for securing Finite State Machines (FSMs) against fault injection attacks. The proposed security mechanisms are based on Physically Unclonable Functions...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Treatment-Based Traffic Signatures
June 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Today's Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) concurrently support a plethora of user applications with diverse connectivity and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Wireless traffic flows...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
How's My Network? A Java Approach to Home Network Measurement
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
As part of a project to develop a user-centered network measurement platform that limits impediments to participation, this work focuses on using the execution of a signed Java applet for home...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
On End-to-End Throughput of Opportunistic Routing in Multirate and Multihop Wireless Networks
April 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Routing in multi-hop wireless networks presents a great challenge mainly due to unreliable wireless links and interference among concurrent transmissions. Recently, a new routing paradigm,...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
On Geographic Collaborative Forwarding in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the Geographic Collaborative Forwarding (GCF) scheme, a variant of opportunistic routing, which exploits the broadcast nature and spatial diversity of the wireless...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Multi-Rate Geographic Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
August 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Routing in wireless ad hoc networks is challenging mainly due to unreliable wireless links/channels. Geographic Opportunistic Routing (GOR) was proposed to cope with the unreliable transmissions...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
On Broadcast Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have enabled data gathering from a vast geographical region, and present unprecedented opportunities for a wide range of tracking and monitoring applications from...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Business Intelligence for Financial Risk Management
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper evaluated the implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) platforms and alternative visualization techniques for risk management in fixed income trading at the sponsor, BNP Paribas....
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Anonymous ID-Based Group Key Agreement for Wireless Networks
January 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
Popularity of group-oriented applications motivates research on security and privacy protection for group communications. A number of group key agreement protocols exploiting ID-based cryptosystem...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Scalability and Robustness in the Domain of Web-Based Tutoring
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Web-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems distribute content using a server based infrastructure. These systems need to be easily accessible to provide a reliable and scalable architecture for...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Analysis of an IEEE 802.11 Network Activity During a Small Workshop
April 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Understanding current performance and usage of IEEE 802.11 networks is valuable for effectively managing and deploying wireless networks in the future. This paper analyzes a wireless trace from...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Measuring Queue Capacities of IEEE 802.11 Wireless Access Points
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
While queue capacities have a direct impact on loss and latency during congestion, and wireless networks continue to spread in university, corporate and home networks, little is publicly known...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Secure and Dependable Distributed Data Storage and Access Control in Mission-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks
February 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
Distributed data storage and access in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) recently has found increased popularity driven by many mission-critical applications. While WSN security has been extensively...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
CHAP Credit-Based Home Access Point for Overall Application QoS Improvement
February 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Wireless APs have become very popular in networking multiple devices at home and allow multiple individuals to share the Internet connections, doing different tasks simultaneously. People use not...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Elliptic Curve Cryptography on Smart Cardswithout Coprocessors
October 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This contribution describes how an elliptic curve cryptosystem can be implemented on very low cost microprocessors with reasonable performance. They focus in this paper on the Intel 8051 family of...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Toward a Sustainable Email Marketing Infrastructure
November 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
Email marketing is a legitimate, lucrative, and widely used business tool, but it is in danger of being overrun by unwanted commercial email (also known as spam). Conventional approaches to...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Network Characteristics for Server Selection in Online Games
November 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
With the growth of internet, there has been an increase in the interest and importance of online games. Online game play, a booming industry, is impacted by the network characteristics of players...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Network Performance Evaluation in a Web Browser
November 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Web browser is increasingly used for emerging applications such as online games and streaming audio/ video. End users seeking better quality for these applications need methods to ascertain...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Ensuring Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing
April 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud Computing has been envisioned as the next-generation architecture of IT Enterprise. In contrast to traditional solutions, where the IT services are under proper physical, logical and...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Formatting Instructions for Educational Data Mining Conference
March 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper contains instructions for formatting papers for the International Conference on Educational Data Mining. One's life will be much easier if one reads this paper and uses the Styles that...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
An Optimized Two-Step Solution for Updating XML Views
December 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes an efficient solution for the XML view update problem. A progressive translatability checking approach is used to guarantee that only translatable updates are fed into the...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Automaton in or Out: Run-Time Plan Optimization for XML Stream Processing
February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
Many systems such as Tukwila and YFilter combine automaton and algebra techniques to process queries over tokenized XML streams. Typically in this architecture, an automaton is first used to...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Semantic Query Optimization for Processing XML Streams With Minimized Memory Footprint
February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
XQuery evaluation over XML streams requires the temporary buffering of XML elements. This paper presents a semantic query optimization solution to minimize memory footprint during XQuery...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
Join Minimization in XML-to-SQL Translation: An Algebraic Approach
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Consider an XML view defined over a relational database, and a user query specified over this view. This user XML query is typically processed using the following steps: the translator maps the...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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