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Improving Network Efficiency by Removing Energy Holes in WSNs

March 21, 2013 12:00am PDT

Cluster based Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been widely used for better performance in terms of energy efficiency. Efficient use of energy is challenging task of designing these protocols....

Provided by: Cornell University

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Z-SEP: Zonal-Stable Election Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

March 21, 2013 12:00am PDT

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are comprised of thousands of sensor nodes, with restricted energy, that co-operate to accomplish a sensing task. Various routing Protocols are designed for...

Provided by: Cornell University

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Divide-and-Rule Scheme for Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

March 21, 2013 12:00am PDT

From energy conservation perspective in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), clustering of sensor nodes is a challenging task. Clustering technique in routing protocols play a key role to prolong the...

Provided by: King Saud University

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Energy Consumption Rate Based Stable Election Protocol (ECRSEP) for WSNs

March 21, 2013 12:00am PDT

In recent few years Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have seen an increased interest in various applications like border field security, disaster management and medical applications. So large...

Provided by: King Abdulaziz University

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From Computationally-Proved Protocol Specifications to Implementations and Application to SSH

March 21, 2013 12:00am PDT

This paper presents a novel technique for obtaining implementations of security protocols, proved secure in the computational model. The authors formally specify the protocol to prove, they prove...

Provided by: INRIA

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Out-running the leopard: Dodging targeted attacks in cyber-space

March 20, 2013 5:15am PDT

It's time to rethink your security options as internet attackers become smarter and more focused in who they attack - and how.

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Multi-Level Group Key Management Technique for Multicast Security in MANET

March 20, 2013 12:00am PDT

In Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs), data transmission is speeded up by means of multicasting. Though multicast transmission lessens overhead, collision and congestion, it persuades new challenges...

Provided by: Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology

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Optimization Method of Pilot Allocation for Cooperative Amplify-and-Forward OFDM System

March 20, 2013 12:00am PDT

Pilot-assisted channel estimation has been studied only in common cooperative AF (Amplify-and-Forward) OFDM which has no feedback mechanism. In this paper, for cooperative AF-OFDM system, the...

Provided by: Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology

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Hybrid DEEC: Towards Efficient Energy Utilization in Wireless Sensor Networks

March 19, 2013 12:00am PDT

The clustering algorithm is considered as a kind of key technique used to reduce energy consumption. It can help in increasing the stability period and network life time. Routing protocol for...

Provided by: University of Alaska, Fairbanks

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EAPESS: An Adaptive Transmission Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks

March 19, 2013 12:00am PDT

Reduced energy consumption in sensor nodes is one of the major challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) deployment. In this regard, Error Control Coding (ECC) is one of techniques used for...

Provided by: University of Alaska, Fairbanks

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Longline Phishing

March 18, 2013 12:00am PDT

The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of email as a vehicle for cyberat¬tacks on organizations and large corporations. Such attacks have evolved from the simple inclusion of...

Provided by: Proofpoint

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Longline Phishing - Email-borne Threats, Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the Rise of Industrial Phishing Attacks

March 18, 2013 12:00am PDT

The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of email as a vehicle for cyberattacks on organizations and large corporations. Such attacks have evolved from the simple inclusion of...

Provided by: Proofpoint

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Forward-Secure Identity-Based Signature: New Generic Constructions and Their Applications

March 18, 2013 12:00am PDT

As modern cryptographic schemes rely their security on the secrecy of the private keys used in them, exposing such keys results in a total loss of security. In fact, attackers have been developing...

Provided by: British Telecom

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Efficient Live Migration of Virtual Machines Using Shared Storage

March 17, 2013 12:00am PDT

Live migration of Virtual Machines (VM) across distinct physical hosts is an important feature of virtualization technology for maintenance, load-balancing and energy reduction, especially so for...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Discussion Threads

10 steps to animating clipart in PowerPoint

March 16, 2013 1:07pm PDT

10 steps to animating clipart in PowerPoint article root Good tricks Goof job Susan. Nice tricks. PPT animation While this method may work and much easier to do than the multiple steps may...

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Constructing Connected-Dominating-Set With Maximum Lifetime in Cognitive Radio Networks

March 16, 2013 12:00am PDT

Connected-Dominating-Set (CDS) is a representative technique for constructing virtual backbones of wireless networks and thus facilitates implementation of many tasks including broadcasting,...

Provided by: Hong Kong Baptist University

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10 steps to animating clipart in PowerPoint: Demo files

March 15, 2013 12:00am PDT

These sample PowerPoint presentations (ppt and pptx versions) demonstrate the animation technique described in this 10 Things blog post.

Provided by: Susan Harkins

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Quality of Service in Wireless Networks Using Weighted Clustering Algorithm

March 14, 2013 12:00am PDT

In today's Internet, inter-domain route control remains indefinable; however, such control could improve the performance, dependability, and usefulness of the network for end users and ISPs alike....

Provided by: International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)