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Fast VMM-Based Overlay Networking for Bridging the Cloud and High Performance Computing
A collection of Virtual Machines (VMs) interconnected with an overlay network with a layer 2 abstraction has proven to be a powerful, unifying abstraction for adaptive distributed and parallel computi...
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Styles in Business Process Modeling: An Exploration and A Model
Business process models are an important means to design, analyze, implement, and control business processes. As with every type of conceptual model, a business process model has to meet certain synta...
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Flood Modelling for Cities Using Cloud Computing
Urban flood risk modeling is a highly topical example of intensive computational processing. Such processing is increasingly required by a range of organizations including local government, engineerin...
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Contributory Provision Point Contracts - A Risk-Free Mechanism for Hedging Cloud Energy Costs
Cloud computing services rely on electricity to power compute-servers, network equipment, cooling systems, and other supporting infrastructure. As such, energy costs are a substantial outgoing to publ...
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My Private Cloud - Granting Federated Access to Cloud Resources
The authors describe the research undertaken in the six month JISC/EPSRC funded "My Private Cloud" project, in which they built a demonstration cloud file storage service that allows users to login to...
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Towards a Cloud-Based Integrity Measurement Service
The aim of this paper is to propose the use of a cloud-based integrity management service coupled with a trustworthy client component - in the form of the Trust Extension Device (TED) platform - as a ...
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Neighborhood Prediction Based Decentralized Key Management for Mobile Wireless Networks
The wireless data collected in mobile environments provides tremendous opportunities to build new applications in various domains such as vehicular ad hoc networks and mobile social networks. Storing ...
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Clouds in Space: Scientific Computing using Windows Azure
In this paper, the authors report upon the cloud-based solution that they designed and implemented for space situational awareness. They begin by introducing the background to the work and to the area...
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Security Issues to Cloud Computing
With the growing adoption of cloud computing as a viable business proposition to reduce both infrastructure and operational costs, an essential requirement is to provide guidance on how to manage info...
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Trust as a Facilitator in Cloud Computing: A Survey
Cloud computing offers massively scalable, elastic resources (e.g., data, computing power, and services) over the internet from remote data centers to the consumers. The growing market penetration, wi...
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Cache Performance Models for Quality of Service Compliance in Storage Clouds
With the growing popularity of cloud-based data centers as the enterprise IT platform of choice, there is a need for effective management strategies capable of maintaining performance within SLA and Q...
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An Indoor Augmented-Reality Evacuation System for the Smartphone using Personalized Pedometry
There currently exist widely used mobile phone emergency applications for the smartphone and limited mobile emergency applications for indoor environments. However, the outdoor applications only focus...
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Accurate Energy Characterization of OS Services in Embedded Systems
As technology scales for increased circuit density and performance, the management of power consumption in embedded systems is becoming critical. Because the Operating System (OS) is a basic component...
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A Generative-Oriented Model-Driven Design Environment for Customizable Video Surveillance Systems
To tackle the growing complexity and huge demand for tailored domestic video surveillance systems along with a high demanding time-to-market expectation, engineers at IVV Automacao, LDA are exploiting...
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IoT Challenges
In this paper, the authors claim that the challenges posed by Internet of Things cannot be managed with the current policy tools and research programs, as these are too slow and too instrumental. Thes...
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Options, Forwards and Provision-Point Contracts in Improving Cloud Infrastructure Utilisation
Cloud computing takes away much of the need to plan future IT demands from the consumer, and puts it in the hands of the provider. Consumers don't need to give advance notice to start or terminate vir...
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XtreemOS: A Sound Foundation for Cloud Infrastructure and Federations
Xtreem-OS is a Linux-based operating system with native support for Virtual Organizations (VO's), for building large-scale resource federations. XtreemOS has been designed as a grid operating system, ...
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A Router for The Containment of Timing and Value Failures in CAN
The dependability deficiencies and bandwidth constraints of the Controller Area Network (CAN) can prevent its use in safety-relevant and performance-demanding applications. This paper introduces mecha...
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Bounded-Contention Coding for Wireless Networks in the High SNR Regime
Efficient communication in wireless networks is typically challenged by the possibility of interference among several transmitting nodes. Much important research has been invested in decreasing the nu...
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The Design of a Redundant Array of Independent Net-Storages for Improved Confidentiality in Cloud Computing
This paper describes how a Redundant Array of Independent Net-storages (RAIN) can be deployed for confidentiality control in Cloud Computing. The RAIN approach splits data into segments and distribute...
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An Adaptively Emerging Mechanism for Context-Aware Service Selections Regulated by Feedback Distributions
Cloud computing brought great advantages in terms of its cost control, reliability, elasticity, etc. Services, as the elements in cloud computing, attracted more attentions in recent years. According ...
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A Qualitative Research Perspective on BPM Adoption and the Pitfalls of Business Process Modeling
Business Process Management (BPM) is used by organizations as a method to increase awareness and knowledge of business processes. Although many companies adopt BPM, there is still a notable insecurity...
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K-NN Query Algorithm Based on PB-Tree with the Parallel Lines Division
Spatial index and query are enabling techniques for achieving the vision of the Internet of Things. K-NN is an algorithm which is used widely in spatial database. Traditional query algorithms use R-tr...
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Federated Semantic Nodes to Scale Search Process in the IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to extending the Internet to heterogeneous components such as actuators, sensors or other smart devices. In this paper, the IoT foresees novel usage of such devices...
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IP Multimedia Subsystem Authentication Protocol in LTE-Heterogeneous Networks
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) introduces important advantages for users of LTE-femtocell heterogeneous access networks. In order to access services hosted in the IMS layer, the user has to undergo aut...
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Capacity Maximization through Energy-Aware Multi-Mode Relaying
In future wireless mobile networks, data rate and quality of service are expected to be comparable to those of wired deployments. To achieve this target, novel architectures must be adopted, successfu...
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User-Centric Modeling and Processing for Ubiquitous Events Using Semantic Capability Models
Recent development in sensor networks and mobile computing is gaining increasing interest from enterprises. Sensor data services can provide fine-grained information of the physical world and feed the...
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Optimal Migration Contracts in Virtual Networks: Pay-as-You-Come Vs Pay-as-You-Go Pricing
Network virtualization realizes the vision of an Internet where resources offered by different stakeholders are used and shared by multiple coexisting virtual networks. The abstraction introduced by n...
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Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds: Introduction to the Itaac Special Issue
Autonomic Computing introduces autonomy in software systems by making them capable of self-management and self-healing. Autonomic Clouds have emerged as a result of the application of autonomic techni...
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Enhancing Spontaneous Interaction in Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks
With the development of advanced mobile devices and social network services, Mobile Social Network (MSN) has become popular in recent years. In this paper, the authors present a new perspective of MSN...
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CMQ - A Lightweight, Asynchronous High-Performance Messaging Queue for the Cloud
In cloud computing environments guarantees, consistency mechanisms, (shared) state and transactions are frequently traded for robustness, scalability and performance. Based on this challenge the autho...
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An Agent Based Business Aware Incident Detection System for Cloud Environments
Classic intrusion detection mechanisms are not flexible enough to cope with cloud specific characteristics such as frequent infrastructure changes. This makes them unable to address new cloud specific...
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Planning and Managing Disruptive Business Models for RFID-Startups-The Disruptor's Arrow of Time
This paper presents a one-page visual tool for adaptively planning and managing potentially disruptive business models such as in RFID-Startups. The visual tool is called "The Disruptor's Arrow of Tim...
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Implementation of a Secure Genome Sequence Search Platform on Public Cloud-Leveraging Open Source Solutions
With looming patent cliffs, resulting in no patent protections for several block buster drugs, several Life sciences organizations are looking at ways to reduce the costs of drug discovery. They are l...
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Software Level Green Computing for Large Scale Systems
Energy conservation has become a critical issue in modern system electronic devices. Energy wastage in electronic devices occurs in both hardware and software components. Software drives the hardware ...
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Dot-base62x: Building a Compact and User-Friendly Text Representation Scheme of ipv6 Addresses for Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has dramatically reshaped the whole IT industry in recent years. With the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, services running in Cloud computing will face problems associated with IPv6 addr...
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Context Caches in the Clouds
In context-aware systems, the contextual information about human and computing situations has a strong temporal aspect i.e. it remains valid for a period of time. This temporal property can be exploit...
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A Holistic Approach to Visualizing Business Models for The Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises huge potential economic benefits. However, current IoT applications are in their infancy and the full potential of possible business opportunities is yet to be di...
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A Quantitative Analysis of Current Security Concerns and Solutions for Cloud Computing
The development of cloud computing services is speeding up the rate in which the organizations outsource their computational services or sell their idle computational resources. Even though migrating ...
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Hadoop and Memcached: Performance and Power Characterization and Analysis
Given the rapid expansion in cloud computing in the past few years, there is a driving necessity of having cloud workloads running on a backend servers analyzed and characterized for performance and p...
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Neighborhood Prediction Based Decentralized Key Management for Mobile Wireless Networks
The wireless data collected in mobile environments provides tremendous opportunities to build new applications in various domains such as vehicular ad hoc networks and mobile social networks. Storing ...
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Metadata-Guided Evaluation of Resource-Constrained Queries in Content Caching Based Wireless Networks
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of data-centric storage that provides energy-efficient data dissemination and organization in mobile wireless environments. However, limited resources of wire...
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Determining the Position of a Jammer Using a Virtual-Force Iterative Approach
Wireless communication is susceptible to radio interference and jamming attacks, which prevent the reception of communications. Most existing anti-jamming work does not consider the location informati...
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InstantLeap: An Architecture for Fast Neighbor Discovery in Large-Scale P2P VoD Streaming
In large-scale Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Video-on-Demand (VoD) streaming applications, a fundamental challenge is to quickly locate new supplying peers whenever a VCR command is issued, in order to achieve s...
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Contributions of Tester Experience and a Checklist Guideline to the Identification of Categories and Choices for Software Testing
An early step for most black-box testing methods is to identify a set of categories and choices (or their equivalents) from the specification. The identification is often performed in an ad hoc manner...
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A Generic Content-Based Image Retrieval Framework for Mobile Devices
Multimedia mobile devices have created new possibilities for developing and accessing a variety of multimedia items such as images, audio and video clips. Personal multimedia items are, nowadays, bein...
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Searching for Software on the EGEE Infrastructure
Several large-scale Grid infrastructures are currently in operation around the world, federating an impressive collection of computational resources, a wide variety of application software, and hundre...
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Grid Resource Ranking Using Low-Level Performance Measurements
This paper outlines a feasible approach to ranking Grid resources based on an easily obtainable application-specific performance model utilizing low-level performance metrics. The Grid resources are c...
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Securing Advanced Metering Infrastructure Using Intrusion Detection System With Data Stream Mining
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is an imperative component of the smart grid, as it is responsible for collecting, measuring, analyzing energy usage data, and transmitting these data to the dat...
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Distinguishing Between FE and DDoS Using Randomness Check
Threads posed by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming more serious day by day. Accurately detecting DDoS becomes an important and necessary step in securing a computer network. Ho...
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Unified Rate Limiting in Broadband Access Networks for Defeating Internet Worms and DDoS Attacks
Internet worms and DDoS attacks are considered the two most menacing attacks on today's Internet. The traditional wisdom is that they are different beasts, and they should be dealt with independently....
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User-Centric Mobility Models for Opportunistic Networking
In this paper, the authors survey the most recent proposals for modelling user mobility in mobile pervasive networks, and specifically in opportunistic networks. They identify two main families of mod...
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On the Performance of Energy-Division Multiple Access Over Fading Channels
In this paper, the authors consider a multiple-access scheme in which different users share the same bandwidth and the same pulse, and are discriminated at the receiver on the basis of the received en...
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A Reconfigurable Component Model With Semantic Type System for Dynamic WSN Applications
Runtime reconfigurable component models provide several attractions with regard to the management of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications operating in dynamic environments and under evolving app...
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Design of Embedded Database Based on Hybrid Storage of PRAM and NAND Flash Memory
Android which is the popular smart phone OS uses a database system to manage its private data storage. Although the database system supports a powerful and light-weight database engine, its performanc...
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Private Computation of Spatial and Temporal Power Consumption with Smart Meters
Smart metering of utility consumption is rapidly becoming reality for multitudes of people and households. It promises real-time measurement and adjustment of power demand which is expected to result ...
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Fault-Management in P2P-MPI
The authors present in this paper a study on fault management in a grid middleware. The middleware is their home-grown software called P2P-MPI. This framework is MPJ compliant, allows users to execute...
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Global Predicate Detection in Distributed Systems With Small Faults
The problem of detecting whether a predicate holds on the global state of the system (global predicate detection) lies at the heart of several important problems in distributed computing, e.g., testin...
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Peer Sampling With Improved Accuracy
Node sampling services provide peers in a peer-to-peer system with a source of randomly chosen addresses of other nodes. Ideally, samples should be independent and uniform. The restrictions of a distr...
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AEETC - Adaptive Energy-Efficient Timing Control in Wireless Networks With Network Coding
Energy is a scarce resource in wireless networks. Network coding has been proposed recently as a means to reduce the number of transmissions and energy consumption. In this paper, the authors introduc...
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Providing Built-in Keyword Search Capabilities in RDBMS
A common approach to performing keyword search over relational databases is to find the minimum Steiner trees in database graphs transformed from relational data. These methods, however, are rather ex...
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Trie-Join: A Trie-Based Method for Efficient String Similarity Joins
A string similarity join finds similar pairs between two collections of strings. Many applications, e.g., data integration and cleaning, can significantly benefit from an efficient string-similarity-j...
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PROBE: A Process Behavior-Based Host Intrusion Prevention System
Attacks using vulnerabilities are considered nowadays a severe threat. Thus, a host needs a device that monitors system activities for malicious behaviors and blocks those activities to protect itself...
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Unveiling the Bittorrent Performance in Mobile Wimax Networks
As mobile Internet environments are becoming widespread, how to revamp Peer-To-Peer (P2P) operations for mobile hosts is gaining more attention. In this paper, the authors carry out empirical measurem...
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TCAMChecker: A Software Approach to the Error Detection and Correction of TCAM-Based Networking Systems
Ternary Content Addressable Memories (TCAMs) are widely used in network devices carrying out the core operation of single-operation lookups. TCAMs are the core component of many networking devices suc...
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HERO - A Home Based Routing in Pocket Switched Networks
Pocket Switched Networks (PSNs) take advantage of human mobility to distribute data. Investigations on real-world trace data indicate that human mobility follows a simple reproducible pattern: a human...
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Routing for Information Leakage Reduction in Multi-Channel Multi-Hop Ad-Hoc Social Networks
This paper investigates the routing problem for information leakage reduction in multi-channel ad-hoc networks. In particular, the authors focus on two routing models: Trusted Group Multicast (TGM) an...
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Model-Free Probabilistic Localization of Wireless Sensor Network Nodes in Indoor Environments
The authors present a technique that makes up a practical probabilistic approach for locating wireless sensor network devices using the commonly available signal strength measurements (RSSI). From the...
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A Survey of Computation Offloading for Mobile Systems
Mobile systems have limited resources, such as battery life, network bandwidth, storage capacity, and processor performance. These restrictions may be alleviated by computation of f loading: sending h...
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Comparison of User Traffic Characteristics on Mobile-Access Versus Fixed-Access Networks
The authors compare Web traffic characteristics of mobile-versus fixed-access end-hosts, where herein the term "Mobile" refers to access via cell towers, using for example the 3G/UMTS standard, and th...
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Bounded-Contention Coding for Wireless Networks in the High SNR Regime
Efficient communication in wireless networks is typically challenged by the possibility of interference among several transmitting nodes. Much important research has been invested in decreasing the nu...
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Towards a New Image-Based Spectrogram Segmentation Speech Coder Optimised for Intelligibility
Speech intelligibility is the very essence of communications. When high noise can degrade a speech signal to the threshold of intelligibility, for example in mobile and military applications, introduc...
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Contributory Provision Point Contracts - A Risk-Free Mechanism for Hedging Cloud Energy Costs
Cloud computing services rely on electricity to power compute-servers, network equipment, cooling systems, and other supporting infrastructure. As such, energy costs are a substantial outgoing to publ...
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Flood Modelling for Cities Using Cloud Computing
Urban flood risk modeling is a highly topical example of intensive computational processing. Such processing is increasingly required by a range of organizations including local government, engineerin...
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Towards a Cloud-Based Integrity Measurement Service
The aim of this paper is to propose the use of a cloud-based integrity management service coupled with a trustworthy client component - in the form of the Trust Extension Device (TED) platform - as a ...
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My Private Cloud - Granting Federated Access to Cloud Resources
The authors describe the research undertaken in the six month JISC/EPSRC funded "My Private Cloud" project, in which they built a demonstration cloud file storage service that allows users to login to...
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Failure Data-Driven Selective Node-Level Duplication to Improve MTTF in High Performance Computing Systems
This paper presents the authors' analysis of the failure behavior of large scale systems using the failure logs collected by Los Alamos National Laboratory on 22 of their computing clusters. They note...
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Cognitive Radio MIMO Gaussian Broadcast Channels With the Power Constraint
The cognitive radio multiple-input multiple-output Gaussian broadcast channels are studied where multiple antennas are available for both primary users and secondary users in a spectrum sharing enviro...
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A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach for Opportunistic Data Transfer in Cellular Networks
The number of mobile Internet users is growing rapidly, as well as the capability of mobile Internet devices. As a result, the enormous amount of traffic generated everyday on mobile Internet is pushi...
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Supervised Grid-of-Tries: A Novel Framework for Classifier Management
Packet classification is the problem of identifying which one of a set of rules maintained in a database is best matched by an incoming packet at a router and taking the action specified by the rule. ...
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