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Vulnerable medical devices: A clear and present danger

January 14, 2013 7:26am PST

Technology is helping to save lives, but vulnerable medical devices and computers are a real risk. Michael P. Kassner asks the experts about the state of healthcare security.

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An Indoor Augmented-Reality Evacuation System for the Smartphone using Personalized Pedometry

January 9, 2013 12:00am PST

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...

Provided by: Springer Healthcare

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Your medical records, HIPAA, and the illusion of privacy

January 7, 2013 7:44am PST

HIPAA is supposed to protect our private medical records from prying eyes, but there are many exceptions and gaps as Michael P. Kassner found out while doing some research.

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A New Case for Trusted Third Party Auditor in Cloud Computing

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

Cloud computing offers an appealing business model and it is tempting for companies to delegate their IT services, as well as data, to the Cloud. But in Cloud environment, lacking of practical...

Provided by: EuroJournals

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Desired Compensation Adaptive Robust Control of Mobile Satellite Communication System with Disturbance and Model Uncertainties

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

The tracking and stabilizing control of a typical ship-mounted Mobile Satellite Communication System (MSCS) is studied in this paper. Severe parametric uncertain-ties and uncertain nonlinearities...

Provided by: Purdue Federal Credit Union

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Improving Secrecy Rate Via Spectrum Leasing for Friendly Jamming

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

Cooperative jamming paradigm in secure communications enlists network nodes to transmit noise or structured code-words, in order to impair the eavesdropper's ability to decode messages to be kept...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

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Adaptive Neural Network Controller for Modeling Link Quality in WSANs

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

In this paper, the authors develops a new approach based on off-line trained Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for an adaptive controller to compensate the packet loss and delay which almost occur...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Applications

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Comparison of Fiber Based Dispersion Compensation in RZ and NRZ Data Modulation Formats

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

In this paper, dispersion compensating fibers are used to compensate for the positive dispersion accumulated over the length of transmission fiber. Pre and post dispersion compensation schemes are...

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Use of Fibers in Long Distance Telecommunication DWDM Systems

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

This paper compares the performances of DWDM system with 04 channels and 10Gb/s per channel with a channel spacing of 50 GHz using a conventional Single Mode Fibre (SMF) or Non Zero Dispersion...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications

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Mobile workforce management: Seven key benefits

December 6, 2012 12:00am PST

Whether looking at the complexities of scheduling or the gaps in mobility, it is apparent that the opportunity exists to deploy a software solution to address the growing needs of your company....

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Block Merging for Quadtree-Based Partitioning in HEVC

December 1, 2012 12:00am PST

The joint development of the upcoming High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard by ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group marks a new step in video...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

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Top Five Reasons Why EMC VNX is Simple

December 1, 2012 12:00am PST

This document describes the top 5 simple benefits of EMC VNX.

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CloudMoV: Cloud-based Mobile Social TV

November 27, 2012 12:00am PST

The rapidly increasing power of personal mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.) is providing much richer contents and social interactions to users on the move. This trend however is throttled...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Acoustic Ranging and Communication via Microphone Channel

November 21, 2012 12:00am PST

Absolute GPS co-ordinates are typically inaccessible indoor. Pervasive smartphones offer new opportunities for relative indoor localization. The low-complexity and high-accuracy ranging under the...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

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Analog Multitone with Interference Suppression: Relieving the ADC Bottleneck for Wideband 60 GHz Systems

November 21, 2012 12:00am PST

Commercial exploitation of the large amounts of unlicensed spectrum available at 60 GHz requires that the authors take advantage of the low-cost Digital Signal Processing (DSP) made available by...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Near-Optimal Turbo Decoding in Presence of SNR Estimation Error

November 21, 2012 12:00am PST

Optimal iterative Log-MAP (LM) decoding of turbo codes requires accurate Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) information. In practice, there is SNR mismatch priori to decoding due to inaccurate SNR...

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Constellation Optimization for Coherent Optical Channels Distorted by Nonlinear Phase Noise

November 21, 2012 12:00am PST

The authors consider the design of Amplitude Phase-Shift Keying (APSK) constellations, targeting their application to coherent fiber-optical communications. Phase compensation is used at the...

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Bargaining-based Spectrum Sharing for Cognitive Radio Networks With Incomplete Information

November 21, 2012 12:00am PST

To improve the utilization of spectrum resource, a primary network can share its unused bandwidth with a closely located secondary network. As a compensation, the latter should pay a certain price...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

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Anatomy of an SLA: Limitations on what cloud providers will guarantee

November 13, 2012 6:50am PST

Thoran Rodrigues points out the most important parts of a service level agreement with cloud providers. Make sure you understand the limitations they specify on their responsibilities.

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Are All Games Equally Cloud-Gaming-Friendly? an Electromyographic Approach

November 4, 2012 12:00am PDT

Cloud gaming now makes any computer game playable on a thin client without the previous worries and frustrations about the hardware requirements. It frees players from the need to frequently...

Provided by: National Taiwan University