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Access Service Network Gateway in WiMAX
Aug 2009
The high data rate demand for applications such as real-time audio, video, online gaming, service on demand, and live conference has always kept challenges way ahead of available technical...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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LTE-Advanced: Future of Mobile Broadband
Sep 2009
Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) a group of telecommunication associations working towards the development and maintenance of a Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) including...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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Leveraging RFID and 2D Barcodes: ePedigree and Beyond
Jun 2009
This paper highlights the drug counterfeit challenges and discusses the approaches to handle "Serialization" through track and trace of drug in supply chain. It provides approach to deploy mass...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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Mobile Phone Networks for Communication in Feeder Automation
Oct 2008
The techno-commercial feasibility of using mobile phone networks for Feeder Automation is established. Major utilities in India have conducted pilots and have gone ahead with mass-deployments. The...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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WiMAX Base Station Scheduling Algorithms
Jul 2009
This white paper discusses about the scheduling algorithms for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access/Time Division Multiple Access (OFDMA/TDMA) based systems, which extends the PF scheme...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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Comparing Research in Motion and Microsoft Mobile Solutions
Jun 2008
This paper compares the Research In Motion BlackBerry solution (BlackBerry mobile devices and BlackBerry Enterprise Server) with the Microsoft mobile solution (Microsoft Windows Mobile and...
Provided by Advaiya
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The State of 802.11n
Sep 2009
With the ratification of 802.11n, wireless LANs are finally coming of age. Though its status as an official IEEE standard is new, the technology is mature and proven. The 802.11n specification is...
Provided by Meru Networks
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Embracing Next-Generation Mobility Platforms to Solve Business Problems
Oct 2008
This White Paper, IDC analyzes the role of next-generation mobile enterprise platforms as organizations seek a more strategic deployment of mobile solutions. The White Paper analyzes why mobility...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Why Traditional Monitoring Tools Cannot Deliver True Mobile User Management for the BlackBerry Platform
Jan 2009
Many enterprises and government agencies have seen use of the BlackBerry smartphone transition in recent years from small-scale productivity tool to widely used mission-critical platform. The...
Provided by BoxTone
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Wireless LAN Operations: From Reactive to Proactive
Oct 2009
Enterprises everywhere are turning to Wireless Networks (WLANs) as their primary network to provide users mobility, increase productivity and lower infrastructure cost. The recent ratification of...
Provided by Meru Networks
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The T-Mobile HotSpot@Home UMA Service on a University or Enterprise WLAN
Feb 2009
Off late the features of dual-mode devices (cellular voice and data clients with additional Wi-Fi radios) have grown increasingly sophisticated. The burgeoning capabilities of these devices have...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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The All-Wireless Workplace Is Now Open for Business: Using 802.11n as Your Primary Network LAN Deployments
Dec 2007
Wi-Fi technology has been steadily improving for some years, to the extent that many workers now rely on wireless as their primary data connection to the corporate network. Wi-Fi infrastructure...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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WLAN RF Architecture Primer: Single-Channel and Adaptive Multi-Channel Models
Feb 2008
This paper examines one of the questions central to the technology debate: the advantages and disadvantages of the single-channel RF architecture when compared to the adaptive, cellular-like...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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Fixed-Mobile Convergence With UMA for Enterprises
Feb 2009
Advances in Voice-over-IP (VoIP), and cellular networking technologies are driving opportunities for businesses to improve productivity while saving on telecommunication expenses. One...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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The Indestructible Network: Wireless LANs for Industrial and Outdoor Applications
Jan 2008
Off late the new requirements on outdoor and industrial communications have increasingly stressed communications infrastructure designs. Meanwhile, a number of developments in Wi-Fi for enterprise...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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Designed for Speed: Network Infrastructure in an 802.11n World
Jun 2009
The IEEE 802.11n standard and Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11n certification herald a new world for enterprise wireless networks. 802.11n brings significantly higher data rates and more reliable coverage...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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Interoperability Considerations for Today's Wi-Fi Networks
Dec 2007
As Wireless LANs (WLANs) have expanded rapidly over the recent years, the adoption rate for the IEEE 802.11 technology has seen a tremendous growth. Such market demand for unwiring enterprise...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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Network Access Control for Mobile Networks
Dec 2007
The threat of an infected device gaining access to a healthy enterprise network is becoming a significant concern. The focus has been on securing the network perimeter, which leaves the network...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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Running for Coverage: A Review of Femtocells
Jan 2008
Femtocells are short-range radios used to extend the cellular network into homes and office buildings. While there is enormous enthusiasm over their prospects, deployment is still at a very early...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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Interactive Learning 2.0: How Wi-Fi Enhances Learning and Improves Student/Teacher Interaction
Jul 2008
While quite effective, smart classrooms have had limited deployment due to their high cost and need for specialized physical spaces. However, as the adoption of Wi-Fi enabled laptops proliferates...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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The Whys and Hows of Deploying Large-Scale Campus-Wide Wi-Fi Networks
Jan 2008
Ubiquitous Wi-Fi across an enterprise or campus is a very positive and exciting experience for students, faculty, staff and visitors to institution. Having instant access to email, the internet,...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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Location-Based Services for Cellular Phones Using Wi-Fi: The University of Cincinnati's System for Emergency Call Location
Sep 2009
Virtually every new smartphone coming to market now has Wi-Fi functionality, and Wi-Fi is preferred for data services due to its high performance and low cost. Many universities already offer...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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Connect Every K-12 Laptop... Wirelessly, Effortlessly, Securely
Jun 2008
The increased use of laptop computers in K-12 schools has created a unique opportunity to dramatically improve the quality of teaching and learning. The integration of audio, video and graphics...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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The WLAN in the Hospitality Industry
Dec 2007
Hospitality venues have many choices available to them as they consider deploying WLAN technology. WLAN hotspot access may be fee based or offered for free to guests. The venue may choose to...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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Pharmaceutical Shifts Towards UHF RFID for Savings
Dec 2008
The pharmaceutical industry in the United States dispensed more than $260 billion worth of prescription medications in 2008, and in the global marketplace the total is more than twice that amount....
Provided by Alien Technology
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Getting Up to Speed: RFID Powered by Impinj
Aug 2008
Off late Radio Frequency Identification (or RFID) - a means of identifying objects via a wireless communications protocol using radio waves - has become commonplace. One may already be making...
Provided by Impinj
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UHF Gen 2: Deep and Wide, Near and Far
May 2008
The key to this development is Impinj's patented (and patents pending) technologies for harnessing UHF's near field - that aspect of the radio wave that is particularly well-suited to close range,...
Provided by Impinj
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Proactive Attacker Localization in Wireless LAN
Apr 2009
This paper addresses the open problem of locating an attacker that intentionally hides or falsifies its position using advanced radio technologies. A novel attacker localization mechanism, called...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
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A System Implementation of Pushing Advertisement to Handheld Devices Via Bluetooth
Sep 2009
Almost everyone today has his or her mobile phone and Bluetooth has already become a standard inclusion on most mobile phones, laptops and PDAs. Data transfer through Bluetooth among the handheld...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Autonomous Proximity Awareness of Bluetooth Devices
Jan 2009
This paper focuses on designing autonomous device discovery algorithms for Bluetooth networks. The paper first extends the conventional asymmetric Bluetooth link model to three point-to-point...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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P2P Content Distribution to Mobile Bluetooth Users
Aug 2009
Using handheld devices such as cellular phones and smart phones for personal entertainment has become commonplace in today's lifestyle. Virtually all of these devices are equipped with Bluetooth...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Carrier-Sense ARQ: Squeezing Out Bluetooth Performance While Preserving Standard Compliancy
Mar 2009
This paper proposes a simple and standard compliant retransmission mechanism, called Carrier - Sense Automatic Repeat reQuest (CS - ARQ), which aims at improving system performance, both in terms...
Provided by University of Padova
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Security Comparison: Bluetooth Communications Vs Wi-Fi
Dec 2007
Bluetooth and WiFi wireless technology came into focus in few years would be an understatement. It was a time of tremendous progress - a time of refining, improving and making strides towards...
Provided by INFLIBNET Centre
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A Simple Adaptive MAC Scheduling Scheme for Bluetooth Scatternet
Jan 2009
A simple adaptive MAC scheduling algorithm, called Gateway Oriented Scatternet Scheduling (GOSS), is proposed for data exchange in a Bluetooth scatternet. Unlike the existing scheme MDRP (Maximum...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: The Path From Carter and Reagan-Era Faith in Deregulation to Widespread Products Impacting Our World
May 2009
The rules adopted in Docket 81-413 had a much greater impact than any of its advocates could ever have imagined at the time. They enabled the development of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the majority of...
Provided by Emerald Group Publishing
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Using Co-Presence Communities to Enhance Social Recommendation
Apr 2009
This paper proposes a social recommendation algorithm for use in a research social network environment. The social recommendation algorithm proposed combines the concepts of a relationship...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Mobile Robots for Offshore Inspection and Manipulation
Dec 2007
This paper analyzes the potential to apply mobile service robots in offshore oil and gas producing environments. The required hardware and software components and abilities of such a mobile...
Provided by International Petroleum Technology Conference
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AnonySense: Privacy-Aware People-Centric Sensing
Jun 2008
Personal mobile devices are increasingly equipped with the capability to sense the physical world (through cameras, microphones, and accelerometers, for example) and the network world (with Wi-Fi...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Indoor Positioning Via Three Different RF Technologies
Jan 2009
The continuous tracking of mobile systems via active or passive RFID is a desirable but difficult to achieve objective. This paper presents the experimental results of positioning techniques using...
Provided by University of Tubingen
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Understanding Energy Consumption of Sensor Enabled Applications on Mobile Phones
Apr 2009
Recent research in ubiquitous and mobile computing uses mobile phones and wearable accelerometers to monitor individuals' physical activities for personalized and proactive health care. The goal...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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A Hybrid-FAIL Dynamic Channel Allocation Method in GSM System
Jan 2013
Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) uses wireless channel to communicate between a Mobile Stations (MS) to others mobile unit. In GSM the finite number of channel should be efficiently...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Performance Analysis of AODV and OLSR Routing Protocol With Different Topologies
Jan 2013
In this paper, the author represents a survey of performance analysis of AODV and OLSR routing protocol on the basis of some performance parameters. How they work with different topologies and...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Multi Layer Aperture Coupled Micro Strip Antenna With Variation in Dielectric Constants
Jan 2013
Micro strip antennas are used for low profile antenna applications. These antennas are always attractive for researchers due to their low cost, light weight, small size and ease in fabrication....
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Design of GPS and GSM Based Vehicle Location and Tracking System
Jan 2013
A vehicle tracking system combines the installation of an electronic device in a vehicle, or fleet of vehicles, with purpose designed computer software to enable the owner or a third party to...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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A Survey on Routing Protocols of Location Aware and Data Centric Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network
Jan 2013
Wireless sensor network consists of thousands of tiny nodes. The nodes in network are directly connected. Routing protocols are used to discovering and maintaining route in network. There are...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Various Hierarchical Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network: A Survey
May 2013
In a hierarchical architecture, higher energy nodes can be used to process and send the information while low energy nodes can be used to perform the sensing in the proximity of the target. This...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Performance Analysis of a Concentric Cluster Based Hierarchical Routing Protocol for WSN
Feb 2013
Wireless Sensor Networks consist of small nodes with sensing, computation and wireless communication capabilities. In general, sensor nodes have some limitations such as limited battery power,...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Prolonged Network Lifetime and Data Wholeness by Clusters Using B-Ct Algorithm
Mar 2013
The unique characteristics of cost and rapid deployment of sensor networks feigns exciting applications in the areas of communication and in industrial automation, which makes the wireless sensor...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Performance Comparison of AODV & DSR Routing Protocol in a Fading Environment
Mar 2013
In most of the performance comparison of routing protocols, the effects of fadings are rarely considered. The protocols are instead compared in terms of traffic intensity, node intensity and...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Ethics of Reducing Power Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Soft Computing Techniques
Mar 2013
Power eminence controls the suitability of electrical power to user devices. A wireless sensor network is an arrangement collected of several computing and sensing devices distributed within an...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Effective Performance Evaluation of On-Demand Routing Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Network
Mar 2013
To solve spectrum decision and route selection problem which have vital role in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Network (CRAHN), many researchers developed different methodology how efficiently select the...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Research on Qualitative Analysis of LEACH With Wormhole Attack in Wireless Sensor Network
Mar 2013
Wireless sensor networks are real time distributed systems often deployed in ad hoc fashion with self-configuring capability along with ability to connect wirelessly at extremely low cost, makes...
Provided by ACCENTS
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A Survey on Different Approaches for Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mar 2013
In the recent years the applications of wireless sensor networks in the fields such as scientific, military and healthcare have developed. So it has gained more attention in research area. A...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Design of Rectangular Stepped DRA for Wireless Local Area Network (Wlan) Applications
Mar 2013
In this paper, a Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) is presented for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) applications. Here three rectangular dielectric resonators are used as stepped manner. The...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Renovated Cluster Based Routing Protocol for MANET
Mar 2013
A MANET can be defined as a collection of wireless mobile nodes that are capable of communicating with each other without the use of a network infrastructure or any centralized administration. The...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Mobile Sources in an Information-Centric Network with Hierarchical Names: An Indirection Approach
May 2011
An increasing amount of information is available from mobile devices. The authors consider the problem of retrieving data from mobile sources in an information-centric network architecture called...
Provided by Uppror Media Group
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Named Data Networking for Military Communication Systems
Apr 2012
Many modern military communication systems rely on Internet Protocol (IP) mechanisms to provide networking functionality. In addition, mostly all of these military systems are moving towards...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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An Evaluation of MANET Routing Protocol
Mar 2013
Clustering in Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANETs) has much better utilization compared to the conventional system. Other than the highly active and unbalanced nature of MANETs makes it hard for the...
Provided by ACCENTS
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A Novel Approach for Improving the Performance of TCP by TCP Reno and SACK Acknowledgement in High Traffic Density Conditions With Cognitive Radios
Mar 2013
The key factors that contribute to TCP's performance degradation as TCP losses, MAC link failure detection latency, Route computation time and, Link failure notification latency Transmission...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Mall Navigation System Using Wi-Fi Router
Dec 2012
There have been various navigation and tracking systems being developed with the help of technologies like GPS, GSM, Bluetooth, IR, Wi-Fi and Radar. A shopping Mall is a vast place, & the people...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Adaptive Mapping for Reducing Power Consumption on NoC-Based MPSoC
Dec 2012
Intricacy of the S/W increased considerably nowadays. It needs smart application specific architectures as NoC based MPSoCs to achieve the high data communication with computation requirements....
Provided by ACCENTS
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Constant Modulus Blind Equalization for Time-Varying MIMO-FIR Channels With Pulse Estimation
Dec 2012
The Constant Modulus (CM) property of source signal can be mostly utilized to equalize the single-input multiple-output and Finite Impulse Response (FIR) channels. In existing, the channels are...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Energy Efficient Adaptive Routing Algorithm in MANET With Sleep Mode
Dec 2012
An ad hoc network is a group of mobile wireless nodes that collectively form a network among themselves without any permanent infrastructure. One major area of research within ad hoc networks is...
Provided by ACCENTS
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A Brief Overview of the Developments of the Cognitive Radio Technology
Dec 2012
Cognitive radio's rising popularity among various engineers, scientists and researchers can be credited to the increasing number of users of wireless technology and the radio spectrum which is...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Wireless Switch for Saving Electricity
Dec 2012
The authors are going to represent an electrical switch that can change its behaviour through wireless. Realization of switch for saving electricity, they are interested to deal with such an...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Half-Wave Dipole Antenna for GSM Applications
Dec 2012
The dipole antenna or dipole aerial is one of the most important and commonly used types of RF antenna. It is widely used on its own, and it is also incorporated into many other RF antenna designs...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Algorithm for Minimizing Network Cost in WDM Network
Dec 2012
This paper is based on a novel heuristic algorithm for routing and wavelength assignment in virtual wavelength path routed WDM network. In this paper, the authors have considered a wavelength...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Identification of Node Behavior for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network
Dec 2012
In AODV (Ad-hoc On demand Distance Vector Routing), the network is silent until a connection is needed. At point of time when a node needs to establish a connection broadcasts a request Root...
Provided by ACCENTS
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One Step Towards Finding AOA/TOA for Mobile Location
Dec 2012
Due to development of technology mobile devices are becomes more common, to satisfy increasing demand of mobile communication more accurate calculations are required. In mobile communication angle...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Effect of BER Performance in RLS Adaptive Equalizer
Dec 2012
Wireless communication systems operating over time-varying fading channels require adaptive signal processing to equalize the channel variations at the receiver. In wireless applications, the...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Softening Misbehaviour of Nodes and Enforcing Cooperation in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Dec 2012
In ad-hoc wireless network nodes have constraints of resources like CPU cycles, memory, battery power, software, because of which they are not always willing or able to forward others data over...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Intelligent Traffic System for VANET: A Survey
Dec 2012
During the last decades, the total number of vehicles around the world growing enormously. Therefore the focus of manufactures, researchers and government is shifting towards improving the on road...
Provided by ACCENTS
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An Efficient Load Balancing Using Genetic Algorithm in Hierarchical Structured Distributed System
Dec 2012
In this paper, a genetic algorithm based approach for job scheduling in distributed system considering dynamic load balancing is discussed. The underlying distributed system has hierarchical...
Provided by ACCENTS
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A Survey on Energy Consumption in Routing Protocols for MANET Using Cross Layer
Dec 2012
This paper presents the exhaustive search on reduced energy consumption routing protocols for MANET using cross layer. There are so many techniques available for energy consumption in routing...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Probabilistic Analysis of the Semidefinite Relaxation Detector in Digital Communications
Oct 2009
A fundamental problem in modern digital communication is that of the joint detection of several information carrying symbols that are being transmitted over a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO)...
Provided by Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Universal Rigidity: Towards Accurate and Efficient Localization of Wireless Networks
Dec 2009
A fundamental problem in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks is that of determining the positions of nodes. Often, such a problem is complicated by the presence of nodes whose positions cannot be...
Provided by Stanford Technology Ventures Program
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Probabilistic SINR Constrained Robust Transmit Beamforming: A Bernstein-Type Inequality Based Conservative Approach
Feb 2011
Recently, robust transmit beamforming has drawn considerable attention because it can provide guaranteed receiver performance in the presence of channel state information (CSI) errors. Assuming...
Provided by National Tsing Hua University
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Cheap Semidefinite Relaxation MIMO Detection Using Row-by-Rowblock Coordinate Descent
Feb 2011
This paper considers the problem of low complexity implementation of high-performance Semi-Definite Relaxation (SDR) MIMO detection methods. Currently, most SDR MIMO detectors are implemented...
Provided by Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Safe Convex Approximation to Outage-Based MISO Secrecy Rate Optimization Under Imperfect CSI and With Artificial Noise
Nov 2011
Consider a scenario in which an MISO channel is overheard by multiple single-antenna eavesdroppers. The transmitter has perfect Channel State Information (CSI) with the legitimate channel, but has...
Provided by Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Rank-Two Transmit Beamformed Alamouti Space-Time Coding for Physical-Layer Multicasting
Jan 2012
In physical-layer multicasting over a multiuser MISO downlink channel, transmit beamforming using Semi-Definite Relaxation (SDR) has been a popular approach. In this paper, the authors propose a...
Provided by Chinese University of Hong Kong
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RFID and Wireless Sensing
Mar 2009
Off late, the demand of markets to use active transponders, is reaching a saturation point. The main reason is because these ones get its power from batteries, which must be periodically replaced...
Provided by University of Minho
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Applying Active RFID in Mining
Jan 2009
This paper introduces active RFID technology: its principles of operation and capabilities. Readers of this paper can gain a proper understanding of the technology so that they can make informed...
Provided by Technews Publishing
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Efficient RFID Data Imputation by Analyzing the Correlations of Monitored Objects
Jan 2009
As a promising technology for tracing the product and human flows, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has received much attention within database community. However, the problem of missing...
Provided by Northeastern University
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Strengthen RFID Tags Security Using New Data Structure
Dec 2008
RFID was first proposed as a technology for the automatic identification of objects. However, some recent RFID devices can provide additional objects information and can be used for other...
Provided by University of Stavanger
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Privacy Protection for RFID Data
Mar 2009
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is a technology of automatic object identification. Retailers and manufacturers have created compelling business cases for deploying RFID in their supply...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Experimental Evaluation of Read Performance for RFID-Based Mobile Sensor Data Gathering Applications
Dec 2008
This paper considers RFID-based sensing applications enabled by passive or semi-passive tags and mobile devices equipped with readers. The paper experimentally investigates the feasibility of such...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Personal Navigator for a Public Transport System Using RFID Ticketing
May 2009
RFID-based public transport ticketing systems rely on widespread networks of RFID readers that locate the user within the transport network in real time to be able to verify whether he can travel...
Provided by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
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Tracking Occupants and Inventory Items in Buildings Using RFID Technology
Jul 2009
In order to make control decisions, Smart Buildings need to collect data from multiple sources and bring it to a central location, such as the Building Management System (BMS). This needs to be...
Provided by University College Cork
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Hybrid Ultrasound - RFID Indoor Positioning: Combining the Best of Both Worlds
Apr 2009
Existing hybrid ultrasound/RF positioning systems usually measure ultrasonic time-of-flight. This operation requires a wide bandwidth and this makes it rather noise sensitive, limiting the useful...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Efficient and Reliable Estimation of Tags in RFID Systems
Mar 2008
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has recently received much attention from various parties involved in supply chain management. Much of the received wisdom emanating from modern corporations...
Provided by University of Canberra
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Multiscan-Based Map Optimizer for RFID Map-Building With Low-Accuracy Measurements
Nov 2008
This paper studies the problem of mobile robot map-building using a low-accuracy RFID sensor. In recent years, there has been increasing number of mobile robot systems using RFID landmarks. A...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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RFID-Enabled Inventory Control Optimization: A Proof of Concept in a Small-to-Medium Retailer
Sep 2009
This study examines the impact of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology on the inventory control practices of a small-to-medium retailer using a Proof of Concept (PoC) approach. The...
Provided by University of Wollongong
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Analysis of Silver Ink Bow-Tie RFID Tag Antennas Printed on Paper Substrates
Oct 2007
In this study, polymeric silver inks, paper substrates, and screen printing were used to produce prototype Bow-Tie tags. Because of increasing interest in applying passive UHF-RFID systems in...
Provided by Tampere University of Technology
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When Compromised Readers Meet RFID
Aug 2009
RFID-based access control solutions for mobile environments, e.g. ticketing systems for sport events, commonly rely on readers that are not continuously connected to the back-end system. The...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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Using Innovation Theory to Analyse the Status of RFID Technology Adoption at Industry Level in New Zealand
Dec 2008
Radio Frequency Identification also known as RFID technology has been commercially available since World War II. Early applications of RFID were for military purposes. In recent years, interest...
Provided by Auckland University of Technology
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A Simple and Accurate Model for RFID Rectifier
Dec 2008
In this paper, a simple model for the UHF low power rectifier circuit is proposed. Using a novel approach to model the rectifier current waveform, simple analytical equations are derived. The...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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System Framework and Its Application in Mobile RFID Service Network
Jul 2009
Mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a newly emerging technology which uses the mobile phone as an RFID reader with a wireless technology and provides new valuable services to the user...
Provided by Sungkyunkwan University
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Mobile RFID Tracking System
Feb 2008
This paper describes the design of an RFID Kids Tracking System. It is designed to track a moving child in a wide area, such as a park or mall, using RFID technology. The proposed system has...
Provided by American University of Sharjah
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Characterization of RF Propagation in Muscle Tissue for Passive UHF RFID Tags
Jul 2008
This paper presents an analytical analysis and study of the propagation of Radio Frequency (RF) energy in muscle tissue. The workings of passive UHF RFID tag backscatter are studied. Backscatter...
Provided by University of Texas
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Storing Data on RFID Tags: A Standards-Based Approach
Apr 2009
The potential of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for increasing supply chain efficiency has been repeatedly stressed by practitioners and researchers alike. The cross-company usage of RFID...
Provided by Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
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Sensitivity and Impedance Measurements of UHF RFID Chips
May 2009
This paper describes the sensitivity and impedance measurement method for UHF RF Identification (RFID) chips. The measurements are performed using an RFID tester (RFID reader with variable output...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Adding an On/Off Device to Activate the RFID in Enhanced Driver's Licences: Pioneering a Made-in-Ontario Transformative Technology That Delivers Both Privacy and Security
Mar 2009
There are well-known privacy and security vulnerabilities associated with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. So when the author learned that the inclusion of an RFID would be a...
Provided by Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario
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Algebraic Attacks on RFID Protocols
Jun 2009
This work aims to identify the algebraic problems which enable many attacks on RFID protocols. Toward this goal, three emerging types of attacks on RFID protocols, concerning authentication,...
Provided by University of Luxembourg
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Coexistence Proof Using Chain of Timestamps for Multiple RFID Tags
Sep 2009
How can a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Devices) system prove that two or more RFID tags are in the same location? Previous researchers have proposed yoking-proof and grouping-proof...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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RFID Circuit Design With Optimized CMOS Inductor for Monitoring Biomedical Signals
Feb 2008
RFID is evolving as a major technology enabler for identifying and tracking goods. RFID applications in biomedical area not only need to detect but also require monitoring and transmitting vital...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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A Prescription for RFID Success in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Mar 2009
Today's ePharma RFID systems typically track the location of pills from RFID tags or barcodes, and the change of custody at all change of ownership points. Specifically, the system supports...
Provided by FALKEN Secure Networks
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Towards Linking Virtual Models With Physical Objects in Construction Using RFID - Review of Ontologies
Mar 2009
Virtual models have in recent years proven their worth in practice relating to building design. Today virtual models of the complete project are created before the project is carried out in...
Provided by Aalborg University
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Navigating by Stigmergy: A Realization on an RFID Floor for Minimalistic Robots
Feb 2009
Stigmergy is a mechanism that allows the coordination of actions within the same agent or across different agents by means of traces left in the environment. The paper proposes a stigmergetic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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The RFID Radio Channel Performance in the Vehicular Control
Sep 2009
Most terrestrial wireless communication systems operate in environments that present a multitude of RF propagation problems. The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) System, a wireless...
Provided by Instituto Politecnico Nacional
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VLSI Design of an Anti-Collision Protocol for RFID Tags
May 2009
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is slated to become a standard tracking and tagging system for various products chain management systems. Since more and more products become RFID enabled, a...
Provided by EuroJournals
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An Empirical Study of UHF RFID Performance
Sep 2008
This paper examines the performance of EPC Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID reader systems in a realistic setting. Specifically, one identifies factors that degrade overall performance and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Recognizing Daily Activities With RFID-Based Sensors
Oct 2009
This paper explores a dense sensing approach that uses RFID sensor network technology to recognize human activities. In the setting, everyday objects are instrumented with UHF RFID tags called...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Mobile RFID Tag Detection Influence Factors and Prediction of Tag Detectability
Mar 2009
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) readers are powered RF devices that communicate with tags (whether mobile or fixed) and read necessary information to be processed. A mobile RFID tag is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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RFID Tags: Positioning Principles and Localization Techniques
Oct 2008
RFID is an automatic identification technology that enables tracking of people and objects. Both identity and location are generally key information for indoor services. An obvious and interesting...
Provided by Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
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A Metallic RFID Tag Design for Steel-Bar and Wire-Rod Management Application in the Steel Industry
Mar 2009
In recent years, RFID solutions are finding an increasing number of applications in a wide variety of industries. There are some natural limitations when applying RFID technology in the steel...
Provided by China Steel
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RFID Application in Municipal Solid Waste Management System
Jan 2009
Processing and recovery is a key functional element in Municipal Solid Waste Management System (MSWMS). Reuse, recycle and recovery of valuable components of waste stream are given much attention...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Healthcare Professionals Identification at Regional and Local Level: An RFId Integrated Scenario Based on Synergic Experiences
Jan 2009
This paper presents a perspective scenario of synergy on the themes of identification provisioning and traceability, which may bind closely two top tier projects in the Lombardy Region, Italy. The...
Provided by European Communities
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An Exploratory Study of RFID Adoption in Retail Sector
Apr 2009
While several large retailers have mandated RFID deployment across their value chain, the case for RFID adoption among several other retailers still remains more uncertain. This paper uses an...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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Personal Identification in Dynamic Images Using UHF Band RFID System for Service Provision
Aug 2008
Off late, many surveillance cameras are installed in public spaces. This paper presents a proposal of using these cameras for service provision. To do so, it is important to identify "Who" the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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A Low-Power RF Front-End of Passive UHF RFID Transponders
Nov 2008
This paper presents in details the architecture and most of RF front-end building blocks of a fully integrated passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) transponder operating at UHF 902MHz to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
