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Towards Statistically Strong Source Anonymity for Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
For sensor networks deployed to monitor and report real events, event source anonymity is an attractive and critical security property, which unfortunately is also very difficult and expensive to...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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The Kraft's Inequality of Scheduling for Packet-Switched Clos Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
The traffic matrix decomposition provides an effective scheduling approach to guarantee capacity of services supported by input queued packet switches. The Birkhoff-von Neumann (BvN) decomposition...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Optimization Based Rate Control for Communication Networks With Inter-Session Network Coding
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors develop a distributed rate control algorithm for multiple-unicast-sessions when network coding is allowed. Building on the recent flow-based characterization of network...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Call Admission Control in IEEE 802.11 WLANs Using QP-CAT
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
As IEEE 802.11 networks in a BSS are increasingly used to carry VoIP, concerns about QoS arise. The overall delay of all VoIP flows drastically increases when the number of VoIP sources approaches...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Cross-Layer Rate Control in Wireless Networks With Lossy Links: Leaky-Pipe Flow, Effective Network Utility Maximization and Hop-by-Hop Algorithms
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Due to multi-path fading and co-channel interference, wireless links are lossy in nature. As a result, the data rate of a given flow becomes "Thinner and thinner" along its routing path, and the...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Circular Sailing Routing for Wireless Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Routing in wireless networks has been heavily studied in the last decade and numerous routing protocols were proposed in literature. The packets usually follow the shortest paths between sources...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Learning Classifiers from Large Databases Using Statistical Queries
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
The authors describe an approach to learning predictive models from large databases in settings where direct access to data is not available because of massive size of data, access restrictions,...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Distributed Operator Placement and Data Caching in Large-Scale Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Recent advances in computer technology and wireless communications have enabled the emergence of stream-based sensor networks. Broad applications include network traffic monitoring, real-time...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Renewable Energy Policies And Technological Innovation: Evidence Based On Patent Counts
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
This paper examines the effect of environmental policies on technological innovation in the specific case of renewable energy. The analysis is conducted using patent data on a panel of 25...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Using Tax Expenditures To Achieve Energy Policy Goals
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Tax expenditures are a major source of support for energy related activities in the federal budget exceeding direct budget support for energy by a factor of nearly six. Focusing on the policy...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Complementarity And The Measurement Of Individual Risk Tradeoffs: Accounting For Quantity And Quality Of Life Effects
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
This paper considers the factors responsible for differences with age in estimates of the wage compensation an individual requires to accept increased occupational fatality risk. The authors...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Did Big Government's Largesse Help The Locals? The Implications Of WWII Spending For Local Economic Activity, 1939-1958
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Studies of the development of local economies often point to large-scale World War II military spending as a source of long-term economic growth, even though the spending declined sharply after...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Subnational Borrowing In Japan : From ~Implicit Guarantee~ To Market Discipline And Fiscal Rule
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
In many countries, local borrowing is an important source for long-term development projects such as roads, bridges, and waterworks. Local borrowing for such projects is justified on the ground...
Provided by: University of Tokyo
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Bond Positions, Expectations, And The Yield Curve
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
This paper implements a structural model of the yield curve with data on nominal positions and survey forecasts. Bond prices are characterized in terms of investors' current portfolio holdings as...
Provided by: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Illumination Transfer Using Homomorphic Wavelet Filtering and Its Application to Light-Insensitive Face Recognition
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose a novel homomorphic wavelet filtering based illumination transfer technique to change the dominant lighting of one face image (source face image) to another face...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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3D Face Recognition From Multiple Images: A Shape-From-Motion Approach
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors explore the use of methodologies for 3D reconstruction from multiple images to recognize faces. They try to devise a strategy to tackle the problem of recognizing faces...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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The Drivers Of Financial Globalization
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
The authors provide a brief review and analysis of recent trends in international financial integration. In particular, they highlight the asymmetric nature of financial globalization, with the...
Provided by: Trinity College Dublin
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Stochastic Sampling for Internet Traffic Measurement
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
The increasing complexity of the Internet demands continued improvements to measurement techniques and data analysis methods to aid the understanding of network operation. The availability of...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Distributed Computing Task Assignment and Lightpath Establishment (TALE)
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
For a future WDM network to efficiently support distributed computing applications that require both execution by multiple geographically separated computing nodes and data transferring between...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Formal Versus Informal Finance: Evidence From China
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
China is often mentioned as a counterexample to the findings in the finance and growth literature since, despite the weaknesses in its banking system, it is one of the fastest growing economies in...
Provided by: The World Bank
