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White Papers
Gateways for Mobile Routing in Tactical Network Deployments
Jun 2008
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is developing a Network Centric Warfighting (NCW) capability. Key to the deployment of NCW capabilities is the development of scalable networks supporting end...
Provided by Johns Hopkins University
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Case Studies
German State Government Increases Productivity 66 Percent With Unified Interface
Aug 2010
To do their jobs, State of Hesse employees used 400 line-of-business applications, resulting in error-prone and time-consuming workflows. To integrate applications and streamline processes, the...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Real-Time Experiments of Interdomain Network Routing Attacks
Aug 2008
Authors of this paper use a real-time routing experiment platform to conduct attack experiments on a national-level interdomain routing system. The real-time routing experiment platform integrates...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
Internet Routing Policies and Round-Trip-Times
Jan 2010
Round Trip Times (RTTs) play an important role in Internet measurements. In this paper, authors explore some of the ways in which routing policies impact RTTs. In particular, they investigate how...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
BioRoute: A Network-Flow Based Routing Algorithm for Digital Microfluidic Biochips
Nov 2007
Due to the recent advances in microfluidics, digital microfluidic biochips are expected to revolutionize laboratory procedures. One critical problem for biochip synthesis is the droplet routing...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Real-Time Network Simulation Support for Scalable Routing Experiments
Oct 2008
This paper describes a new software infrastructure that combines the scalability and flexibility benefits of real-time network simulation with the realism of open-source routing protocol...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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White Papers
Modelling Airline Network Routing and Scheduling Under Airport Capacity Constraints
Jul 2008
A flight routing and scheduling model is under development that predicts airline routing and scheduling under airport capacity constraints. It consists of several components describing different...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Network Sensitivity to Intradomain Routing Changes
Jan 2010
The Internet's routing architecture was designed to have a clean separation between the intradomain and interdomain routing protocols. However, the appropriate division of labor between these two...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Tabu Search Approach to Solve Routing Issues in Communication Networks
Jun 2009
Optimal routing in communication networks is a major issue to be solved. In this paper, the application of Tabu Search (TS) in the optimum routing problem where the aim is to minimize the...
Provided by Suranaree University of Technology
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White Papers
Secure Unified Cellular Ad Hoc Network Routing
Sep 2009
Previous simulations have shown substantial performance gains can be achieved by using hybrid cellular and Wireless LAN (WLAN) approaches. In a hybrid system, a proxy in an area of strong...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
Physical Layer-Constrained Routing in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks: A Modified AODV Protocol with Power Control
Jan 2010
Routing in Ad Hoc wireless networks is not only a problem of finding a route with shortest length, but it is also a problem of finding a stable and good quality communication route in order to...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Contention Based Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Multiple Copies
May 2010
Routing the packets efficiently in mobile ad hoc network does not have end to end paths. Multiple copies are forwarded from the source to the destination. To deal with such networks, researches...
Provided by Anna University
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White Papers
Distributed Routing Algorithms for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using D-Hop Connected D-Hop Dominating Sets
Jan 2010
This paper describes a distributed algorithm for producing a variety of sets of nodes that can be used to form the backbone of an ad hoc wireless network. The backbone produced is a d-hop...
Provided by Drake University
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Case Studies
Municipality of Los Olivos: Becomes the Most Digital City in Peru by Connecting Citizens to Services
Aug 2010
The municipality of Los Olivos manages education, health and safety services for one of the most vibrant districts of Lima, Peru. Each service used different systems and processes, however,...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Enterprise Gateway Gets Top Imaging Brand Trading With 65 Percent of Customers Electronically
Feb 2010
Founded by George Eastman in 1888, Eastman Kodak Company is a global leader in imaging technology. Kodak aimed to integrate its e-business systems, which according to Duane Cook, Kodak's...
Provided by GXS
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Case Studies
GXS Case Study: Schenker A/S
Jan 2010
Schenker A/S is one of the world's leading providers of integrated logistics services. As Schenker's business has grown, its customers needs have required it to deliver an enhanced array of...
Provided by GXS
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Case Studies
Royal Mail Posts eBusiness Integration Success
Jan 2010
Royal Mail group owns the Royal Mail, Parcelforce Worldwide and Post Office brands. As they enter in an increasingly commercial environment they need to be even more flexible and responsive....
Provided by GXS
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Case Studies
Interactive Applications for Communication Throughout the Rail System
Jan 2009
SBB is the largest travel and transport company in Switzerland. SBB handles over 306 million passengers and nearly 54 million net tonnes of cargo every year. SBB's aim was to apply a...
Provided by Materna
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White Papers
Requirements for Ethernet Networks in Substation Automation
Apr 2009
Ethernet offers numerous advantages that make it the communication medium of choice for substation automation systems around the world, including superior range, versatility, and speed. However,...
Provided by Moxa
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White Papers
Delivering Business Class Ethernet - A Perspective on Level 3#$#s Comprehensive Ethernet Services Portfolio
Nov 2007
This white paper provides an overview of Ethernet services market trends and spotlights Level 3 Communications, an operator that has a feature-rich Ethernet portfolio and one of the broadest...
Provided by Level 3 Communications
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White Papers
Introduction to Carrier Ethernet VPNs: Understanding the Alternative
Aug 2010
There are a wide range of VPN technologies available. MPLS-based VPNs are the most prevalent technology types used today, with many based on the use of Ethernet transport to provide high-speed...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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White Papers
Electron Government Affairs System Based on VPN Technology
Feb 2010
In the course of carrying out its mission the primary challenge facing e-gov is how to deliver secure online services to businesses and citizens. For this paper, the Virtual Private Network (VPN)...
Provided by JATIT
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White Papers
Making the Case for Converged Ethernet Transport: The Advantages of Integrating Layer 2 Ethernet With Layer 0/1 Transport
Nov 2007
The rapid growth of IP traffic is creating a period of transition from circuit to packet optimization. Service providers - already having made significant investments in service edge and core...
Provided by Ciena
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White Papers
G-Router: GSM/GPRS to RS-232 and Ethernet Gateway - Securing Wireless Communication by Using PPP Over CSD
Feb 2010
The G-router is a compact GSM/GPRS Ethernet Gateway designed to provide economical and simple connectivity of RS232 and Ethernet devices to GSM networks. The G-router supports both RS-232...
Provided by RFI Engineering
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White Papers
Illuminating Optical Ethernet Networks!
Mar 2010
The TDM-to-packet network transformation has been underway in transport/telecommunications networks for some years now, fueled primarily by two trends: the advent of triple-play (voice, video,...
Provided by Metanoia
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Whitepapers
The Evolution of Ethernet
Jun 2010
Despite recent economic woes, Ethernet continues to grow at a steady pace; during 2009, Ethernet services in North America grew at a double-digit rate. Vertical Systems Group projects Ethernet to...
Provided by NTT Communications
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White Papers
Differentiated Ethernet Congestion Management for Prioritized Traffic
Apr 2010
This paper proposes and studies a differentiated congestion control for Ethernet congestion management. Following the popular approach that uses a cooperation of an Additive Increase and...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Enabling Ultra Low Latency Applications Over Ethernet
Jan 2010
With the explosion of content and multimedia on the Internet over the past few years, it's not surprising that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and carriers that make up the backbone of the...
Provided by PacketExchange
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White Papers
IPv6-Ready Ethernet Switches for Industrial Networking
Mar 2009
As of September 2007, nearly 80% of the world's IPv4 address capacity was exhausted, leaving only 20% for future Internet users. In recent years, the demand for IPv4 addresses has steadily...
Provided by Moxa
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White Papers
Network Testing Over HDMI 1.4 Ethernet Channel
Mar 2010
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is an extremely successful standard for consumer electronic equipment, with over 850 manufacturers adopting the HDMI standard and an estimated one...
Provided by Ixia
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White Papers
Point-to-Multipoint VLAN Path Signaling Demonstration on the GMPLS Controlled Ethernet Test Network
Jan 2010
Ethernet has greatly succeeded in Local Area Network (LAN). A simple forwarding scheme of Ethernet facilitated the development of high-speed and cost-effective Ethernet equipments. Ethernet is now...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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White Papers
40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet: An Imminent Reality
Mar 2010
Many of today's data centers are running 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) over both optical fiber and balanced twisted-pair copper cabling in their backbone infrastructure where large numbers of gigabit...
Provided by ADC Telecommunications
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White Papers
Improving Label Space Usage for Ethernet Label Switched Paths
Feb 2010
Ethernet is becoming the dominant aggregation technology for carrier transport networks; however, as it is a LAN technology, native bridged Ethernet does not fulfill all the carrier requirements....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Classifying Ethernet Data Packets Based on Raw Bit Patterns
Jun 2010
Currently most operations on network data packets are controlled by the applicable protocols such as TCP/IP. However, there is scope to examine and classify the data without resorting to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Exegy Ticker Plant & Mellanox ConnectX EN (RDMA Over Ethernet) Delivers Breakthrough for Co-Located Trading
Apr 2010
This paper takes a look at how Exegy's High Frequency Trading technology is taking advantage of the new Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN with RoCE (RDMA over Ethernet) 10GigE NICs that implement the RoCE...
Provided by Mellanox Technologies
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White Papers
Multi-Point Ethernet Over Next-Generation SONET/SDH
Apr 2010
Advances in SONET/SDH technologies have introduced novel features for improved services mapping and provisioning, enabling many new avenues for new Carrier Ethernet support. However...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Functional Interface for Universal Access to Ethernet-Based Field Bus Protocols
Feb 2009
Today's field bus systems for connecting automation components in and between machines and units have a very high performance in regard to their transmission rate and realtime capability....
Provided by University of Stuttgart
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White Papers
Efficient Cache Coherence on Manycore Optical Networks
Feb 2010
Ever since industry has turned to parallelism instead of frequency scaling to improve processor performance, multicore processors have continued to scale to larger and larger numbers of cores....
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
LDPC-Coded OFDM for Heterogeneous Access Optical Networks
Aug 2010
This paper proposes a heterogeneous optical access networking scenario, in which communication links between source and destination nodes are heterogeneous, composed of free-space optical, Plastic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Physical Layer Impairment Aware Routing (PLIAR) in WDM Optical Networks: Issues and Challenges
Feb 2010
In WDM optical networks, the Physical Layer Impairments (PLIs) and their significance depend on network type - opaque, translucent, or transparent; the reach - access, metro, or core/long-haul;...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Experimental Demonstration of an Impairment Aware Network Planning and Operation Tool for Transparent/Translucent Optical Networks
Nov 2010
Core optical networks using reconfigurable optical switches and tunable lasers appear to be on the road towards widespread deployment and could evolve to all-optical mesh networks in the coming...
Provided by University of Patras
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White Papers
Physical-Layer Attacks in Optical WDM Networks and Attack-Aware Network Planning
Oct 2010
The high data rates employed by WDM transparent optical networks make them most suitable for today's growing network traffic demands. However, their transparency imposes several vulnerabilities in...
Provided by University of Zagreb
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White Papers
AHDR Technique for OBS Networks
Oct 2011
One of the major problems in Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks is burst contention. Deflection routing is used to resolve the contention problem. Burst Loss Ratio (BLR) is the ratio of the...
Provided by International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
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White Papers
Multistage Interconnection Networks: A Transition From Electronic to Optical
May 2010
Optical communication are necessary for achieving reliable, fast and flexible communication. Advances in electro-optic technologies have made optical communication a reliable networking choice to...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Appliance Controlling Using IPAC
Aug 2010
Today, because of the advancements in the computer and electronic sciences everything is going to be automated. In fact, some devices or infrastructures are capable to change the behavior...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Centaur: A Hybrid Approach for Reliable Policy-Based Routing
Apr 2009
In this paper, the authors consider the design of a policy-based routing system and the role that link state might play. Looking at the problem from a link-state perspective, they propose Centaur,...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
CoRRS: COnsistent and Responsive Routing with Safeguard
Oct 2008
The Internet uses a process called routing convergence to quickly find suitable forwarding paths after dynamic network changes such as failures. During routing convergence, routers may have...
Provided by Duke University
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White Papers
A Diffusive Load Balancing Scheme for Clustered Peer-to-Peer Systems
Sep 2009
Node clustering is an effective solution for achieving good performance and high reliability for Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems. To improve the performance of a clustered P2P system, it is important...
Provided by University of Ottawa
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White Papers
Performance Comparisons of Load Balancing Algorithms for I/OIntensive Workloads on Clusters
Jan 2008
Load balancing techniques play a critically important role in developing high-performance cluster computing platforms. Existing load balancing approaches are concerned with the effective usage of...
Provided by Auburn University
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White Papers
Dynamic Load Balancing for I/O-Intensive Applications on Clusters
Nov 2009
Load balancing for clusters has been investigated extensively, mainly focusing on the effective usage of global CPU and memory resources. However, previous CPU- or memory-centric load balancing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Performance Comparison Between the Click Modular Router and the NetFPGA Router
Sep 2011
It is possible to forward minimum-sized packets at rates of hundreds of Mbps using commodity hardware and Linux. The authors had a preference for the Click Modular Router platform due its...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Webcasts
Support Multiple Industrial Ethernet Protocols With a Single FPGA
Jan 2012
In the webcast, the presenter describes how one can make developing Industrial Ethernet designs easier with an FPGA. See this webcast integrating motor control and Industrial Ethernet into a...
Provided by Altera
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Webcasts
Video Demo: 3 Ways to Quickly Adapt to Changing Ethernet Protocols
Jan 2012
In this webcast, the presenter describes about how the Industrial Networking Kit and flexible, low-power FPGAs can help one meet these challenges in embedded industrial applications. The presenter...
Provided by Altera
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Case Studies
Aguirre Newman: Riverbed Technology Delivers Superior WAN Optimization Performance for Real Estate Company
Mar 2011
Aguirre Newman is Spain's leading real estate consultancy group, and operates in seven business areas including, investment, architecture, property management and corporate finance. Aguirre Newman...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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Case Studies
Aurecon: Riverbed Technology Boosts Application Performance and Reduces Costs for Engineering Company
Jun 2011
Aurecon provides engineering, management and specialist technical services for government and private sector clients globally. Aurecon's employees rely on the company's WAN for file sharing and...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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Case Studies
Al Abbar Group: Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Accelerate Applications and Increase Employee Productivity for Engineering Company
Mar 2011
Al Abbar Group is a multinational company. Their challenges were slow-running applications over the company WAN meant that employees in Al Abbar Group's branch offices were frustrated, and their...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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White Papers
Web-based Analysis for Optical Network Data Path Selection
Sep 2011
Day to day communication required high data rate with centralized control on traffic. For high data rate the authors gone through optical networks and .net environment for the implementation of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Area Efficient Design of Routing Node for Network-on-Chip
Jul 2011
Network-on-Chip (NoC) is a paradigm proposed to satisfy the communication demands of future Systems-on-Chip (SoC). The main components of an NoC are the network adapters, routing nodes, and...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Minimizing the Switch and Link Conflicts in an Optical Multi-Stage Interconnection Network
Jul 2011
Multistage Interconnection Networks (MINs) are very popular in switching and communication applications. A MIN connects N inputs to N outputs and is referred as an N × N MIN; having size N....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Hop Limited Flooding Over Dynamic Networks
Mar 2011
The authors study the performance of hop-limited broadcasting of a message in dynamic graphs where links between nodes switch between active and inactive states. They analyze the performance with...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Symmetrical Dispersion Compensation for High Speed Optical Links
Nov 2011
In this paper, the performance of high speed optical fiber based network is analyzed by using Dispersion Compensating Module (DCM). The optimal operating condition of the DCM is obtained by...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Differential Phase-Shift Keying Receiver Design Applied to Strong Optical Filtering
Nov 2007
The authors study, via simulation and experiments, the influence of the differential phase-shift keying decoder Free Spectral Range (FSR) when strong optical filtering is considered for the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Performance and Reliability Analysis of a Scaled Multi-Switch Junction Crossbar Nanomemory and Demultiplexer
Aug 2007
This paper presents a performance and reliability analysis of a scaled crossbar molecular switch memory and demultiplexer. In particular, the authors compare their multi-switch junction fault...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Error Correction Code Multi-Switch Nanomemory Demultiplexer: Performance and Reliability Analysis
Jun 2008
In this paper, the performance and reliability analysis of a crossbar molecular switch nanomemory demultiplexer is studied and results presented. In particular, they investigate the impact on the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Performance Analysis of Parallel Visualization Applications and Scientific Applications on an Optical Grid
Jun 2008
One major challenge for Grid environments is how to efficiently utilize geographically distributed resources given large communication latency introduced by wide area networks interconnecting...
Provided by Texas A&M University
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White Papers
A Hierarchical Computational Model of Selective Visual Attention
Sep 2011
Computational model of visual attention has got more and more attention in machine vision and image processing. A hierarchical computational model for selective visual attention is proposed in...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Temporal Resolution Adaptation in Real-Time Bitrate Estimation From Packed Sampled Traffic
Jan 2011
Packet sampling can greatly reduce traffic measurement overhead in high-speed networks. At the same time, this operation introduces estimation errors that have to be carefully handled to ensure a...
Provided by Politecnico di Bari
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White Papers
The Design of an Environment for Monitoring and Controlling Remote Sensor Networks
May 2009
In this paper, the authors present the design of jWebDust, a software environment for monitoring and controlling sensor networks via a web interface. Our software architecture provides a range of...
Provided by Taylor & Francis Group
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White Papers
An Analog VLSI Architecture for High Speed
Nov 2009
Using a two-dimension array of MOSFET switches, a robust, high speed object tracking CMOS sensor is presented. The edges of the image scene are extracted by the in-pixel differential comparators...
Provided by Taylor & Francis Group
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White Papers
Managing Cost, Performance, and Reliability Tradeoffs for Energy-Aware Server Provisioning
Mar 2011
The authors present ACES, an automated server provisioning system that aims to meet workload demand while minimizing energy consumption in data centers. To perform energy-aware server...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Saving Energy in LAN Switches: New Methods of Packet Coalescing for Energy Efficient Ethernet
Jun 2011
Small Or Home Office (SOHO) Ethernet LAN switches consume about 8 TWh per year in the U.S. alone. Despite normally low traffic load and numerous periods of idleness, these switches typically stay...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Smart-NICs: Power Proxying for Reduced Power Consumption in Network Edge Devices
Feb 2008
The number of edge devices connected to the Internet is increasing at a rapid rate. To maintain network connectivity, the majority of these devices remain completely powered on when idle, wasting...
Provided by University of Florida
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White Papers
Real-Time Performance Analysis of Adaptive Link Rate
Sep 2008
High speed links are widely deployed in modern day computer networks to meet the ever growing needs for increasing data bandwidth. However, with the increase in the link rate, the power...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Resource Efficient Content Inspection System for Next Generation Smart NICs
Aug 2008
The aggregate power consumption of the Internet is increasing at an alarming rate, due in part to the rapid increase in the number of connected edge devices such as desktop PCs. Despite being left...
Provided by University of Florida
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White Papers
A Study of the Routing and Spectrum Allocation in Spectrum-Sliced Elastic Optical Path Networks
Mar 2011
In OFDM-based optical networks, multiple sub-carriers can be allocated to accommodate various size of traffic demands. By using the multi-carrier modulation technique, subcarriers for the same...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Packet Scheduling in a Low-Latency Optical Switch With Wavelength Division Multiplexing and Electronic Buffer
Mar 2011
Optical switches are widely considered as the most promising candidate to provide ultra-high speed interconnections. Due to the difficulty in implementing all-optical buffer, optical switches with...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Performance Modeling of Hybrid Optical Packet Switches With Shared Buffer
Mar 2011
All-Optical Packet Switches (OPS) are considered as a good candidate for future ultra-fast communications as they do not require Optical-Electronic-Optical (O/E/O) conversions. However, currently...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Pay Bursts Only Once Holds for (Some) Non-FIFO Systems
Mar 2011
Non-FIFO processing of flows by network nodes is not a rare phenomenon. Unfortunately, the state-of-the-art analytical tool for the computation of performance bounds in packet-switched networks,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Proposal of Communication Protocols in Ubiquitous Computation Environment in the Residential Automation
Apr 2008
An ubiquitous computation environment has as presupposed that the computation is in all equipment and devices, and these are interacting between itself and with the people. The connection between...
Provided by Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
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White Papers
OBGP+: A Simple Approach to Drastically Improve OBGP
Feb 2008
During the last few years, the research community has shown an increasing interest in the subject of inter-domain routing in optical networks, so new approaches like the optical extension of BGP,...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Electron Government Affairs System Based on VPN Technology
Feb 2010
In the course of carrying out its mission the primary challenge facing e-gov is how to deliver secure online services to businesses and citizens. For this paper, the Virtual Private Network (VPN)...
Provided by JATIT
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White Papers
Making the Case for Converged Ethernet Transport: The Advantages of Integrating Layer 2 Ethernet With Layer 0/1 Transport
Nov 2007
The rapid growth of IP traffic is creating a period of transition from circuit to packet optimization. Service providers - already having made significant investments in service edge and core...
Provided by Ciena
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White Papers
G-Router: GSM/GPRS to RS-232 and Ethernet Gateway - Securing Wireless Communication by Using PPP Over CSD
Feb 2010
The G-router is a compact GSM/GPRS Ethernet Gateway designed to provide economical and simple connectivity of RS232 and Ethernet devices to GSM networks. The G-router supports both RS-232...
Provided by RFI Engineering
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White Papers
Illuminating Optical Ethernet Networks!
Mar 2010
The TDM-to-packet network transformation has been underway in transport/telecommunications networks for some years now, fueled primarily by two trends: the advent of triple-play (voice, video,...
Provided by Metanoia
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Whitepapers
The Evolution of Ethernet
Jun 2010
Despite recent economic woes, Ethernet continues to grow at a steady pace; during 2009, Ethernet services in North America grew at a double-digit rate. Vertical Systems Group projects Ethernet to...
Provided by NTT Communications
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White Papers
Differentiated Ethernet Congestion Management for Prioritized Traffic
Apr 2010
This paper proposes and studies a differentiated congestion control for Ethernet congestion management. Following the popular approach that uses a cooperation of an Additive Increase and...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Enabling Ultra Low Latency Applications Over Ethernet
Jan 2010
With the explosion of content and multimedia on the Internet over the past few years, it's not surprising that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and carriers that make up the backbone of the...
Provided by PacketExchange
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White Papers
IPv6-Ready Ethernet Switches for Industrial Networking
Mar 2009
As of September 2007, nearly 80% of the world's IPv4 address capacity was exhausted, leaving only 20% for future Internet users. In recent years, the demand for IPv4 addresses has steadily...
Provided by Moxa
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White Papers
Network Testing Over HDMI 1.4 Ethernet Channel
Mar 2010
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is an extremely successful standard for consumer electronic equipment, with over 850 manufacturers adopting the HDMI standard and an estimated one...
Provided by Ixia
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White Papers
Point-to-Multipoint VLAN Path Signaling Demonstration on the GMPLS Controlled Ethernet Test Network
Jan 2010
Ethernet has greatly succeeded in Local Area Network (LAN). A simple forwarding scheme of Ethernet facilitated the development of high-speed and cost-effective Ethernet equipments. Ethernet is now...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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White Papers
40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet: An Imminent Reality
Mar 2010
Many of today's data centers are running 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) over both optical fiber and balanced twisted-pair copper cabling in their backbone infrastructure where large numbers of gigabit...
Provided by ADC Telecommunications
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White Papers
Improving Label Space Usage for Ethernet Label Switched Paths
Feb 2010
Ethernet is becoming the dominant aggregation technology for carrier transport networks; however, as it is a LAN technology, native bridged Ethernet does not fulfill all the carrier requirements....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Classifying Ethernet Data Packets Based on Raw Bit Patterns
Jun 2010
Currently most operations on network data packets are controlled by the applicable protocols such as TCP/IP. However, there is scope to examine and classify the data without resorting to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Exegy Ticker Plant & Mellanox ConnectX EN (RDMA Over Ethernet) Delivers Breakthrough for Co-Located Trading
Apr 2010
This paper takes a look at how Exegy's High Frequency Trading technology is taking advantage of the new Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN with RoCE (RDMA over Ethernet) 10GigE NICs that implement the RoCE...
Provided by Mellanox Technologies
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White Papers
Multi-Point Ethernet Over Next-Generation SONET/SDH
Apr 2010
Advances in SONET/SDH technologies have introduced novel features for improved services mapping and provisioning, enabling many new avenues for new Carrier Ethernet support. However...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Functional Interface for Universal Access to Ethernet-Based Field Bus Protocols
Feb 2009
Today's field bus systems for connecting automation components in and between machines and units have a very high performance in regard to their transmission rate and realtime capability....
Provided by University of Stuttgart
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White Papers
Efficient Cache Coherence on Manycore Optical Networks
Feb 2010
Ever since industry has turned to parallelism instead of frequency scaling to improve processor performance, multicore processors have continued to scale to larger and larger numbers of cores....
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
LDPC-Coded OFDM for Heterogeneous Access Optical Networks
Aug 2010
This paper proposes a heterogeneous optical access networking scenario, in which communication links between source and destination nodes are heterogeneous, composed of free-space optical, Plastic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Physical Layer Impairment Aware Routing (PLIAR) in WDM Optical Networks: Issues and Challenges
Feb 2010
In WDM optical networks, the Physical Layer Impairments (PLIs) and their significance depend on network type - opaque, translucent, or transparent; the reach - access, metro, or core/long-haul;...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Graph Partitioning for Survivability in Multi-Domain Optical Networks
Jan 2010
As optical networking deployments increase, multidomain provisioning and survivability are becoming major concerns. A key challenge in multi-domain survivability is the scalability problem. To...
Provided by IRISA
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White Papers
Optical Transport Networks for 100G Implementation in FPGAs
Jul 2010
Based on announcements from vendors, enterprises and service providers, 100G system deployment is finally gaining real traction in the marketplace. The primary driver for this deployment is the...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Avoiding Path-Vectors in Multi-Domain Optical Networks
Apr 2010
One of the key building blocks of optical internetworking is the Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) protocol. The consolidation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) has motivated the proposal...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Design and Optimization Next-Generation All-Optical Passive Networks
Nov 2009
This paper describes the progress of the work plan named "Design and Optimization Next Generation Passive All-Optical Networks". The first part of this report focuses on summarizing the status of...
Provided by Instituto de Telecomunicacoes
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White Papers
A Survey of Survivability in Multi-Domain Optical Networks
Jan 2010
Network survivability is becoming an important issue and a topical subject in WDM optical mesh networks. Many works have studied network survivability. However, few works have focused on...
Provided by IRISA
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White Papers
Optical and Higher Layer Performance Monitoring in Photonic Networks: Progress and Challenges
Feb 2009
Optical Performance Monitoring (OPM) and Optical Network Management (ONM) are essential in building a reliable and high quality of service system as the optical transmission system continues to...
Provided by Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET)
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White Papers
160 Gb/s Time-Domain Channel Extraction/ Insertion and All-Optical Logic Operations Exploiting a Single PPLN Waveguide
Oct 2009
160 Gb/s all-optical signal processing is demonstrated exploiting pump depletion in addition to sum and difference frequency generation (SFG/DFG) in a single Periodically Poled Lithium-Niobate...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Optical Interconnection Networks Based on Microring Resonators
Jul 2010
Interconnection networks must transport an always increasing information density and connect a rising number of processing units. Electronic technologies have been able to sustain the traffic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Broadband Municipal Optical Networks in Greece: A Suitable Business Model
Mar 2009
This paper proposes a business model for the optimal exploitation of the currently developing broadband metropolitan area networks in Greece. Having recorded and examined relevant international...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Performances of Label Switched Path Dynamic Provisioning in GMPLS Networks
Jul 2010
Given the fact that control channels in GMPLS/MPLS-TE networks use packet based forwarding, and the processing of control messages may be subject to various factors, the provisioning delay of an...
Provided by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Performance of Translucent Optical Networks Under Dynamic Traffic and Uncertain Physical-Layer Information
Apr 2010
This paper investigates the performance of translucent Optical Transport Networks (OTNs) under different traffic and knowledge conditions, varying from perfect knowledge to drifts and...
Provided by Technical University of Catalonia
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Path Monitoring for Restoration Functions in Optical Packet-Switched Networks
Jul 2010
The increasing demand in the Internet network for real-time multimedia data traffic with high quality is pushing the limits of existing network structure. Optical Packet Switching (OPS) is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Transparent High-Data-Rate Optical Transmission Through Broadband Hitless Bypass Switches for Chip-Scale Optical Networks
Apr 2010
Silicon photonics has been realized to provide outstanding performance in very broad range of applications such as short-haul communication, and on-chip global interconnection networks in...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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Energy Efficient Optical Burst Switched (OBS) Networks
Jun 2010
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a profound impact on the economy and the environment. A study estimated that the Internet equipment consumed roughly 8 % of the total energy...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Capacity and Delay Analysis of Next-Generation Passive Optical Networks (NG-PONs)
Jan 2010
Building on the Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) and Gigabit PON (GPON) standards, Next-Generation (NG) PONs provide increased data rates, split ratios, wavelengths counts, and fiber...
Provided by Arizona State University
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Cross-Layer Traffic Grooming for Optical Networks With Hybrid Layer-One and Layer-Zero Signal Regeneration
Jan 2010
Traffic grooming is important for optical transport networks. Most of studies in this area have focused on minimizing total network capacity or maximizing total served traffic demand subject to...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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Performance Analysis of Network Operating Systems in Local Area Networks
Jan 2008
With the increased uses of computer networks, the performance analysis of networks is becoming critical. Businesses need to transfer more data at the minimum amount of time in their LANs and WANs....
Provided by Unitec
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Reed-Solomon Turbo Product Codes for Optical Communications: FromCode Optimization to Decoder Design
Apr 2008
Turbo Product Codes (TPCs) are an attractive solution to improve link budgets and reduce systems costs by relaxing the requirements on expensive optical devices in high capacity optical transport...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Coarse Optical Circuit Switching by Default, Rerouting Over Circuits for Adaptation
Dec 2008
As Internet traffic continues to grow unabated at an exponential rate, it is unclear whether the existing packet-routing network architecture based on electronic routers will continue to scale at...
Provided by Optical Society of America
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An Integrated View on Monitoring and Compensation for Dynamic Optical Networks: From Management to Physical Layer
Dec 2008
A vertical perspective, ranging from management and routing to physical layer options, concerning dynamic network Monitoring and Compensation of impairments (M&C), is given. Feasibility,...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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A Performance Study of an Optical Burst Switched Network With Dynamic Simultaneous Link Possesion
Jan 2010
In Optical Burst Switched (OBS) networks a burst may occupy a wavelength on one or more links as it travels through the network. In the literature, OBS networks have been analyzed assuming that...
Provided by North Carolina State University
