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Webcasts
Ensuring High Availability With VMware vSphere
Apr 2009
VMware once again raises the bar for providing simple and cost-effective application high availability with VMware vSphere 4. Tune in to hear about VMware Fault Tolerance (FT), a new feature in...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
Business Continuity: Business Impact Analysis
Jan 2010
The presenter explains what the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is in the Business Continuity methodology. The presenter explains how the Business Impact Analysis is so beneficial not only for...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Scalability for Social Network Analysis Algorithms
Jun 2010
A Social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "Nodes" which are tied by "Edges". One example of a source for social network analysis is traffic in a mobile telephony network...
Provided by Uppsala University
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Software Update Management With System Center Configuration Manager (Level 300)
Dec 2007
Significant changes have been made to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager capabilities for assessing compliance, and also deployment and installation of software updates. This webcast...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
UEFI and Windows
Jul 2008
This paper briefly describes support for the Unified Extended Firmware Interface (UEFI) in the Windows family of operating systems and includes a brief discussion of related technical issues. This...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
CA IT Process Automation Manager Best Practices: Recommendations for Process Design and Monitoring
Apr 2010
CA IT Process Automation Manager (CA IT PAM) provides a centralized and structured approach to operations management by enabling one to define, build, orchestrate, manage, and report on automated...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Optimizing Deep Packet Inspection for High-Speed Traffic Analysis
Aug 2010
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) techniques are considered extremely expensive in terms of processing costs and therefore are usually deployed in edge networks, where the amount of data to be...
Provided by Politecnico di Torino
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White Papers
UEFI Support and Requirements for Windows Operating Systems
Apr 2009
This paper provides information about Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) support in Windows operating systems. Firmware and system designers can use the guidelines and requirements in this paper...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
SNMP Monitoring: One Critical Component to Network Management
Jun 2005
Although SNMP agents provide essential information for effective network monitoring and troubleshooting, SNMP alone does not provide all the information you need to stay on top of your network....
Provided by Network Instruments
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White Papers
SLA Description: a Description of Service Level Agreements
Jan 2002
A description of Service Level Agreements. What are they, why are they needed, what are they comprised of, and how to create and implement them. The primary objective of an organization's...
Provided by RL Information Consulting
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Desired Configuration Management in Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Level 300)
Oct 2007
With Desired Configuration Management, one can monitor environment for an array of configurations and settings and report the findings centrally. The webcast introduce key concepts and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Overview of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Level 300)
Oct 2007
The next major release of Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, is now available. This webcast provides a technical overview of System Center...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Cisco - Capacity and Performance Management: Best Practices White Paper
Mar 2003
This paper examines the general capacity and performance issues, including the risks and potential capacity issues within networks. The paper also looks at the capacity and performance management...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Webcasts
What's New With BMC Performance Manager 2.5
Nov 2007
BMC Performance Manager (BPM) 2.5 is faster and simpler than ever, with improvements in performance, usability, and configuration. The presenters will discuss the new v2.5 features focused on...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Quality of Service on the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-E
May 2009
Quality of Service (QoS) is no longer an option in networks today; it has become a requirement due the extensive use of unified communications. The extensive QoS toolkit provided by the Supervisor...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
White Paper: Core Network Design and Dimensioning for GPRS and UMTS
Oct 2007
This paper discusses the protocol architecture, and the design methodology for GPRS and UMTS core networks. The topics discussed include the new elements used for packet routing and external...
Provided by LCC International
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White Papers
IT Contingency Planning: IT Disaster Recovery Planning
Apr 2010
This paper design for the implementation of the SVCC IT Contingency Planning: Disaster Recovery Plan. This guide is to be used as a reference in order to respond to an IT Disaster in a timely...
Provided by Southside Virginia Community College
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Webcasts
Active Problem Analyzer - Overview and Configuration in NNM v7.51 Advanced Edition
Aug 2007
In this webcast, the attendee will learn about the Active Problem Analyzer (APA) extensible architecture in NNM v7.51 Advanced Edition and ways to setup, configure and customize APA to meet the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Introducing System Center Capacity Planner 2006 (Level 100)
Jul 2008
Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2006 uses state of the art modeling technology to bring unprecedented functionality and flexibility to the process of performance analysis and planning of...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Really Fast Failover and Other Use Cases for Veritas Cluster File System
Dec 2008
The presenter of this webcast will cover key uses cases for Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System. Attendees will learn how CFS delivers fast failover of databases and applications,...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Orchestrating People, Process, and Technology
May 2009
The ultimate goal of Information Technology (IT) operations is to provide efficient and effective services while increasing the value of IT to the organization. IT compliance standards require...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Staying on Top of Enterprise Extender: Proactive Monitoring, Management & Optimization
Jan 2009
HPR totally supplanted SNA/APPN's traditional 'Intermediate session routing' functionality with three new, function-rich components. These three HPR routing components, in the context of EE, then...
Provided by Software Diversified Services
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White Papers
Symantec High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP: Keep Your SAP Application Online, All the Time With Symantec
Feb 2008
Many organizations rely on SAP applications to support vital business processes. Any disruption of these services translates directly into bottom-line losses. As an organization's information...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
NetScout nGenius Performance Manager Helps Dell Conduct Effective Capacity Planning and Accelerate Network Trouble-Shooting by Approximately 90 Percent
Jul 2009
Managing the Dell global IT network is an immense job. The network IT group monitors all the network traffic flowing through more than 10,000 switches, routers, load balancers, and firewalls and...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Availability and More: End-to-End Monitoring Helps IT Add Value From the Business User's Point of View
Nov 2007
About three years ago, a leading U.S. bank with global operations decided to transform the way it managed the availability of its IT infrastructure. Today, it's preparing to leverage that...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Computer Systems Research at HP Labs
Nov 2008
This issue of Operating Systems Review continues a series of surveys of research at major corporate research labs with a slice of computer systems research at HP Labs. This paper gives a brief...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
The Emergence of Personal Health Systems: Designing Technology for Patients and Clinicians
May 2008
The ability to monitor patients from a distance, using electronic devices to record and send measurements of patients' vital signs, has been a mainstay in the use of medical technology for years....
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Technical Considerations for Creating a Serviceguard Cluster That Spans Multiple IP Subnets
Apr 2008
Serviceguard has required that nodes in the cluster be on the same IP subnet and that all the interfaces on the same subnet must be connected at the link level. This requirement has become too...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Detailed Diagnosis in Enterprise Networks
Aug 2009
By studying trouble tickets from small enterprise networks, the paper concludes that their operators need detailed fault diagnosis. That is, the diagnostic system should be able to diagnose not...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
BCDEdit Reference
Feb 2008
The Boot Configuration Data store (BCD) contains boot configuration parameters and controls how the operating system is booted for Windows Vista and later versions. BCD abstracts the underlying...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Performance Testing Guide for Windows
Aug 2009
This paper provides information about testing performance on Windows 7. It provides guidelines for hardware and software industry professionals, Information Technology (IT) professionals, and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Power Policy Configuration and Deployment in Windows
Mar 2009
Windows Vista and later versions of Windows feature a redesigned power policy store that enables third-party extensibility and configuration by using Windows Group Policy. This paper describes the...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification
Feb 2008
This specification describes the structure of executable (image) files and object files under the Windows family of operating systems. These files are referred to as Portable Executable (PE) and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) as Defined in ACPI 3.0b Specification
Aug 2009
The iSCSI Boot Firmware (iBF) Table (iBFT) is a block of information that contains various parameters that are useful to the iSCSI Boot process. The iBFT is the mechanism by which iBF parameter...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Overview on SP1 Release for Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows 5.1
Nov 2009
Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows 5.1 will be releasing Service Pack 1 (SP1) in November. This SP1 release includes an eye-popping list of extended features and additional...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
Agencia Gubernamental de Control del Gobierno de la Ciudad De Buenos Aires Accelerates Business License Processing by 80%
Nov 2009
The Agencia Gubernamental de Control del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires wanted to implement a scalable, highly-available IT infrastructure to help the agency reliably handle data and...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Aviva Reduces Cost of IT Estate After Implementing Management Solution
Oct 2009
United Kingdom - based Aviva wanted to rationalise the number of software management systems in line with the company's aims of reduced IT costs and greater effectiveness. With Microsoft Services...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Develop High-Volume, Low-Latency Finance Solutions With IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging
Oct 2009
This white paper discusses how IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging addresses the current challenges of the financial markets industry with solutions designed for reliable multicast and unicast...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
DekaBank Improves Customer Satisfaction With Active Monitoring of Web-Based Business Processes
Nov 2009
DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale wanted to enable DekaBank to ensure the high availability and performance of 14 business-critical, Web-based applications with 3 million users of internet banking...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Services-Powered Business
Feb 2008
This paper will review the defining characteristics of Services-Powered Businesses and will discuss the requirements of those best equipped to deliver the benefits. For many years now businesses...
Provided by Nortel Networks
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White Papers
Network Architectures for Ubiquitous Home Services
Jul 2011
The on-going growth of connectivity has brought new opportunities for Home Network; Home network will soon be a place of a large amount of services, from the gadget to the home control. In order...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Analysis of Reliable and Scalable Video-On-Demand Networks
Jul 2011
Various architectures have been proposed and implemented to handle the rapid growth in demand for video delivering technologies. This paper implements and thoroughly examines various...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Half-Band FIR Filters for Signal Compression
Jul 2011
An efficient design of equiripple half-band FIR filters for signal compression is presented. Solution of the approximation problem in terms of generating function and zero phase transfer function...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Modeling and Evaluation of SWAP Scheduling Policy Under Varying Job Size Distributions
Jul 2011
Size-based scheduling policies have been shown to be effective resource allocation policies in computing and networked environments. One of the recently proposed size-based scheduling policy is...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
A New Hybrid SPD-Based Scheduling for EPONs
Jul 2011
Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) is a key issue of Ethernet PONs. In order to get higher resource utilization and lower packet delay, the problem is always dissolved into grant sizing and grant...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
A Naming Scheme for Identifiers in a Locator/Identifier-Split Internet Architecture
Jul 2011
Many researchers agreed that splitting the IP address into a locator and an identifier seems to be a promising approach for a Future Internet Architecture. Although this solution addresses the...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
StepRoute - A MultiRoute Variant Based on Congestion Intervals
Jul 2011
Congestion-aware routing protocols require network statistics which are timely and as precise as possible. Consequently, there is a need to represent congestion information efficiently and in a...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Interaction Between an Online Charging System and a Policy Server
Jul 2008
According to the 3GPP standard architecture up to Release 9, a Charging System is not supposed to interact directly with a Policy Server. The Charging System is responsible for rating and...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Access Control in a Form of Active Queuing Management in Congested Network Environment
Jul 2011
Internet processes information in the form of distributed digital resources, which have to be available for authorized use and protected against unauthorized access. The implementation of these...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Application Design Over Named Data Networking With Its Features in Mind
Feb 2012
Designed around host-reachability, today's Internet architecture faces many limitations while serving data-oriented applications, which produce most traffic load to the Internet. Many clean-slate...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
A Reference Model for Future Computer Networks
Feb 2012
Future Internet design demands revolutionary approaches unfettered by legacy constraints and concepts. This paper presents a clean-slate Concern-Oriented Reference Model (CORM) for architecting...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Comparison of Heuristic Methods Applied to Optimization of Computer Networks
Feb 2012
This paper presents an attempt to solve Capacity and Flow Assignment (CFA) problem, which is NP-complete. Meta-heuristic and heuristic algorithms are invented in order to find not only feasible...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Estimation of Perceived Quality in Convergent Services
Apr 2012
Triple-Play (3P) and Quadruple-Play (4P) services are being widely offered by telecommunication services providers. Such services must be able to offer equal or higher quality levels than those...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Time Dependent Lévy Flights Models for Internet Traffic
Jun 2010
Measurements of local and wide-area network traffic in the 90's established the relation between burstiness and self-similarity of network traffic. Several papers explained that the widely used...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Dynamic End-to-End QoS Provisioning and Service Composition Over Heterogeneous Networks
Jun 2010
This paper presents an approach that aims to provide Quality of Services (QoS) over heterogeneous Internet domains. The goal is to install and to manage QoS inside each domain and to ensure it on...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
SLS Management Validation for End to End QoS Management in a Multidomain Testbed Environment
Jun 2010
This paper presents the validation of an end-to-end QoS integrated management system in a multidomain test-bed environment. The integrated management system was designed and implemented in the...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Traffic Shaping Via Congestion Signals Delegation
Apr 2011
This paper presents a new architecture that enables a set of clients to enforce traffic shaping policies among them through the delegation of congestion signals. When congestion-aware Internet...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Simulation and Analysis of a QoS Multipath Routing Protocol for Smart Electricity Networks
Apr 2011
This paper presents several considerations that must be taken into account in the design of a QoS multipath routing protocol suitable for Smart Electricity Networks (SENs). The main goal is to...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Generic Function Schema as a Means for Similar-Fashioned Operations on Heterogeneous Connection Properties
Apr 2012
Graphs are often used to model interconnected topological objects with different connection properties. Path finding in a weighted graph belongs to the classical problems of graph theory. Whereas...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
A Deterministic Indoor UWB Space-Variant Multipath Radio Channel Modelling Compared to Measurements on Basic Configurations
Nov 2006
A comparison of measured UltraWideBand (UWB) signals and signals simulated by a ray-tracing tool are presented in the paper. The simulation tool is a full 3D indoor deterministic simulator aimed...
Provided by ENSTA
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White Papers
SONG: Quake 4 Network Traffic Trace Files
Jan 2011
This paper describes the conditions under which network traffic was generated and captured for a range of traffic traces available on the SONG database. In this case the traffic traces concern...
Provided by Swinburne University of Technology
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White Papers
REED: Optimising First Person Shooter Game Server Discovery using Network Coordinates
Oct 2010
Online First Person Shooter (FPS) games typically use a client-server communication model, with thousands of enthusiast-hosted game servers active at any time. Traditional FPS server discovery may...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Cooperative Hybrid-ARQ Protocols: Unified Frameworks for Protocol Analysis
Oct 2011
Cooperative Hybrid-Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) protocols, which can exploit the spatial and temporal diversities, have been widely studied. The efficiency of cooperative HARQ protocols is...
Provided by ETRI Journal
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White Papers
A Novel Data Transmission Scheme for ATSC Terrestrial DTV Systems
Apr 2012
In Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) terrestrial Digital TeleVision (DTV) systems, additional very low-rate data can be transmitted by modulating the amplitude and polarity of the...
Provided by ETRI Journal
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White Papers
Enhanced FCME Thresholding for Wavelet-Based Cognitive UWB Over Fading Channels
Dec 2011
The cognitive Ultra-WideBand (UWB) network detects interfering narrowband systems and adapts its configuration accordingly. An inherently adaptive and flexible candidate for cognitive UWB...
Provided by ETRI Journal
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White Papers
Single Relay Selection for Bidirectional Cooperative Networks With Physical-Layer Network Coding
Feb 2012
To serve the growing demand of the bidirectional information exchange, the authors propose a single Relay Selection (RS) scheme for Physical-layer Network Coding (PNC) in a bidirectional...
Provided by ETRI Journal
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White Papers
Network Stability Under Alpha Fair Bandwidth Allocation With General File Size Distribution
Jun 2011
Rate allocation among a fixed set of end-to-end connections in the Internet is carried out by congestion control, which has a well established model: it optimizes a concave network utility, a...
Provided by Swinburne University of Technology
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White Papers
Optimal Control of Distributed Markov Decision Processes With Network Delays
Dec 2007
The authors consider the problem of finding an optimal feedback controller for a network of interconnected subsystems, each of which is a Markov decision process. Each subsystem is coupled to its...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Structured Variational Methods for Distributed Inference: Convergence Analysis and Performance-Complexity Tradeoff
Apr 2009
In this paper, the asymptotic performance of a recently proposed distributed inference framework, structured variational methods, is investigated. The authors first distinguish the intra- and...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
Adaptive Scheduling of Message Carrying in a Pigeon Network
Apr 2011
In adverse environments where real-time communications are not always available, a delay tolerant network may be the only choice. A special type of delay tolerant network known as a "Pigeon...
Provided by International Association for Sharing Knowledge and Sustainability (IASKS)
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White Papers
Regularization and Feature Selection for Networked Features
Oct 2010
In the standard formalization of supervised learning problems, a datum is represented as a vector of features without prior knowledge about relationships among features. However, for many real...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
On Rate Allocation for Multiple Plants in a Networked Control System
Mar 2012
The problem of allocating communication resources to multiple plants in a networked control system is investigated. In the presence of a shared communication medium, a total transmission rate...
Provided by KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Robust Monitoring of Network-Wide Aggregates Through Gossiping
Jan 2007
The authors examine the use of gossip protocols for continuous monitoring of network-wide aggregates. Aggregates are computed from local management variables using functions such as AVERAGE, MIN,...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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White Papers
ActiSen: Activity-Aware Sensor Network in Smart Environments
Dec 2011
A sensor network, unlike a traditional communication network, provides high degree of visibility into environmental physical processes. Therefore, its operation is driven by the activities in the...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Networks-on-Chip in Emerging Interconnect Paradigms: Advantages and Challenges
May 2009
Communication plays a crucial role in the design and performance of multi-core Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) have been proposed as a promising solution to simplify and optimize...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Effect of Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity on Correlated Firing in Feedback Networks
Jun 2011
The firing activity of a neuronal population is correlated, which has been linked to information coding and exchanging. Short-term synaptic plasticity allows synapses to increase (facilitate) or...
Provided by mecs-press
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White Papers
An Underwater Acoustic Routing Protocol Based on Hole Projection
Aug 2011
The directed routing protocol ends in failure when it faces a situation of the destination node with a very low velocity in a sparse ad hoc network so, that none of nodes exist in its forwarding...
Provided by mecs-press
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White Papers
Application of Erlang Formulae in Next Generation Networks
Feb 2012
The paper deals with the possibility of the Erlang B and Erlang C formula utilization in Next Generation Networks (NGN). Based on the common properties of synchronous and asynchronous networks it...
Provided by mecs-press
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White Papers
Network Packet Inspection to Identify Contraband File Sharing Using Forensic Tools
Apr 2012
This Paper discusses the digital forensic tool that uses a Field Programmable Gate Array [FPGA] based software for deep packet inspection in network Router for a Bit Torrent Handshake message....
Provided by mecs-press
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White Papers
Network Cooperation for Client-AP Association Optimization
Apr 2012
In a WiFi deployment with multiple access points, optimizing the way each client selects an AP from amongst the available choices, has a significant impact on the realized performance. When two or...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
White Paper: Core Network Design and Dimensioning for GPRS and UMTS
Oct 2007
This paper discusses the protocol architecture, and the design methodology for GPRS and UMTS core networks. The topics discussed include the new elements used for packet routing and external...
Provided by LCC International
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White Papers
Accelerated Enterprise WAN Optimization
Jun 2011
Is your network starting to look like a crowded freeway? The way that people access and use their data is changing, and it can leave your network feeling strained. Mobile devices, virtualized...
Provided by Blue Coat Systems
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White Papers
Orchestrating People, Process, and Technology
May 2009
The ultimate goal of Information Technology (IT) operations is to provide efficient and effective services while increasing the value of IT to the organization. IT compliance standards require...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Staying on Top of Enterprise Extender: Proactive Monitoring, Management & Optimization
Jan 2009
HPR totally supplanted SNA/APPN's traditional 'Intermediate session routing' functionality with three new, function-rich components. These three HPR routing components, in the context of EE, then...
Provided by Software Diversified Services
-
Webcasts
What's New With BMC Performance Manager 2.5
Nov 2007
BMC Performance Manager (BPM) 2.5 is faster and simpler than ever, with improvements in performance, usability, and configuration. The presenters will discuss the new v2.5 features focused on...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Symantec High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP: Keep Your SAP Application Online, All the Time With Symantec
Feb 2008
Many organizations rely on SAP applications to support vital business processes. Any disruption of these services translates directly into bottom-line losses. As an organization's information...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
NetScout nGenius Performance Manager Helps Dell Conduct Effective Capacity Planning and Accelerate Network Trouble-Shooting by Approximately 90 Percent
Jul 2009
Managing the Dell global IT network is an immense job. The network IT group monitors all the network traffic flowing through more than 10,000 switches, routers, load balancers, and firewalls and...
Provided by Dell
-
Case Studies
Availability and More: End-to-End Monitoring Helps IT Add Value From the Business User's Point of View
Nov 2007
About three years ago, a leading U.S. bank with global operations decided to transform the way it managed the availability of its IT infrastructure. Today, it's preparing to leverage that...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Computer Systems Research at HP Labs
Nov 2008
This issue of Operating Systems Review continues a series of surveys of research at major corporate research labs with a slice of computer systems research at HP Labs. This paper gives a brief...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
The Emergence of Personal Health Systems: Designing Technology for Patients and Clinicians
May 2008
The ability to monitor patients from a distance, using electronic devices to record and send measurements of patients' vital signs, has been a mainstay in the use of medical technology for years....
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Technical Considerations for Creating a Serviceguard Cluster That Spans Multiple IP Subnets
Apr 2008
Serviceguard has required that nodes in the cluster be on the same IP subnet and that all the interfaces on the same subnet must be connected at the link level. This requirement has become too...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Detailed Diagnosis in Enterprise Networks
Aug 2009
By studying trouble tickets from small enterprise networks, the paper concludes that their operators need detailed fault diagnosis. That is, the diagnostic system should be able to diagnose not...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
BCDEdit Reference
Feb 2008
The Boot Configuration Data store (BCD) contains boot configuration parameters and controls how the operating system is booted for Windows Vista and later versions. BCD abstracts the underlying...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Performance Testing Guide for Windows
Aug 2009
This paper provides information about testing performance on Windows 7. It provides guidelines for hardware and software industry professionals, Information Technology (IT) professionals, and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Power Policy Configuration and Deployment in Windows
Mar 2009
Windows Vista and later versions of Windows feature a redesigned power policy store that enables third-party extensibility and configuration by using Windows Group Policy. This paper describes the...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification
Feb 2008
This specification describes the structure of executable (image) files and object files under the Windows family of operating systems. These files are referred to as Portable Executable (PE) and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
UEFI and Windows
Jul 2008
This paper briefly describes support for the Unified Extended Firmware Interface (UEFI) in the Windows family of operating systems and includes a brief discussion of related technical issues. This...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
UEFI Support and Requirements for Windows Operating Systems
Apr 2009
This paper provides information about Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) support in Windows operating systems. Firmware and system designers can use the guidelines and requirements in this paper...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) as Defined in ACPI 3.0b Specification
Aug 2009
The iSCSI Boot Firmware (iBF) Table (iBFT) is a block of information that contains various parameters that are useful to the iSCSI Boot process. The iBFT is the mechanism by which iBF parameter...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Overview on SP1 Release for Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows 5.1
Nov 2009
Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows 5.1 will be releasing Service Pack 1 (SP1) in November. This SP1 release includes an eye-popping list of extended features and additional...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
Agencia Gubernamental de Control del Gobierno de la Ciudad De Buenos Aires Accelerates Business License Processing by 80%
Nov 2009
The Agencia Gubernamental de Control del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires wanted to implement a scalable, highly-available IT infrastructure to help the agency reliably handle data and...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Aviva Reduces Cost of IT Estate After Implementing Management Solution
Oct 2009
United Kingdom - based Aviva wanted to rationalise the number of software management systems in line with the company's aims of reduced IT costs and greater effectiveness. With Microsoft Services...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Develop High-Volume, Low-Latency Finance Solutions With IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging
Oct 2009
This white paper discusses how IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging addresses the current challenges of the financial markets industry with solutions designed for reliable multicast and unicast...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
DekaBank Improves Customer Satisfaction With Active Monitoring of Web-Based Business Processes
Nov 2009
DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale wanted to enable DekaBank to ensure the high availability and performance of 14 business-critical, Web-based applications with 3 million users of internet banking...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Services-Powered Business
Feb 2008
This paper will review the defining characteristics of Services-Powered Businesses and will discuss the requirements of those best equipped to deliver the benefits. For many years now businesses...
Provided by Nortel Networks
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Webcasts
Using IIS Application Request Routing to Achieve Elastic Scalability in the Hosting Space!
Dec 2009
Attaining high application availability is always very important albeit not always simple to achieve. IT Administrators and Hosters can benefit from using some of the recently released IIS...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Network Telemetry
Oct 2008
In order to operate and ensure availability of a network, it is critical to have visibility and awareness into what is occurring on the network at any one time. Network telemetry offers extensive...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Quality of Service on the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-E
May 2009
Quality of Service (QoS) is no longer an option in networks today; it has become a requirement due the extensive use of unified communications. The extensive QoS toolkit provided by the Supervisor...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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SNMP Monitoring: One Critical Component to Network Management
Jun 2005
Although SNMP agents provide essential information for effective network monitoring and troubleshooting, SNMP alone does not provide all the information you need to stay on top of your network....
Provided by Network Instruments
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Case Studies
GaVI Safeguards Online Application Response Times for Insurance Clients Using CA Wily Introscope
Jul 2009
Technology is fundamental to the day-to-day operations of GaVI's insurance clients. Poor application response times will therefore not only impact the insurance companies but also policyholders....
Provided by CA
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Case Studies
Intesa SanPaolo Boosts Quality of Service for Online Customers With CA Wily Introscope
Mar 2009
Given the growing use among clients of online banking, Intesa Sanpaolo had to ensure the high availability of its systems, during and after the merger. With a complex platform of Web applications,...
Provided by CA
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Case Studies
Telekom Austria Safeguards Service Levels for 17 Million Subscribers With CA eHealth Performance Manager
Jun 2009
Customer service levels and future business growth are dependent on the company's IT infrastructure, and especially its network. Following a network consolidation program, Telekom Austria needed...
Provided by CA
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Case Studies
Schneider Electric Improves System Availability, Boosts Corporate Confidence in IT
Dec 2008
Company surveys showed systems availability was the number one IT concern among internal users, particularly in the sales force, who sell Schneider's flagship Square D brand of electrical...
Provided by Compuware
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White Papers
IBM Performance Management Tools
Sep 2005
This paper is designed to help you understand the different IBM performance management tools that are available to you and when to use them. The paper is designed for beginners who want to learn...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Quality of Service (QoS) Networking
Feb 2003
QoS refers to the capability of a network to provide better service to selected network traffic over various technologies, including Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Ethernet and...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Deploying Dell Open Manage Server Administrator From IT Assistant 7.0
May 2005
IT Assistant is a central management console that manages and monitors systems in a corporate network. In addition to the basic discovery of systems it supports a wide variety of advanced systems...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
The Gadwall Network Checklist: Make Sure You’ve Got Everything When You Set Up Your Network
Jan 2000
This checklist is designed to guide you in making sure that you have covered all the bases with your network design and technology purchases. Most network installations suffer because parts are...
Provided by Gadwall Group
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White Papers
EminentWare WSUS Extension Pack and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
Aug 2009
SCCM uses WSUS for software update management. A new site role was added in SCCM 2007: the Software Update Point (SUP) role. The SUP role, which is enabled by WSUS, is used for providing the...
Provided by EminentWare
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Case Studies
Bank Increases Productivity With New Operational Business Control Center
Sep 2009
La Caixa is the premier savings bank in Spain and the third largest banking institution in Spain. Bank wanted enterprise-wide visibility and control of operations. A real-time control platform...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
Ensuring High Availability for Business-Critical Applications With VMware and Neverfail
Feb 2010
Application availability has a direct effect on the bottom line for technology-driven businesses. From natural disaster to configuration issues and planned maintenance to power failures, threats...
Provided by VMware
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