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PHP Scalability and High Availability: Database Resident Connection Pooling and Fast Application Notification
Apr 2008
PHP is a popular dynamic programming language for web applications. PHP comes with extensions that provide a wide range of capabilities including database access. The OCI8 extension in PHP allows...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
CBID: A Scalable Method for Distributed Data Aggregation in WSNs
Sep 2009
Mobile Agents (MAs) are referred to as autonomous programs able to move among network nodes towards the completion of an assigned task. The authors' proposal involves MA middleware in WSNs to...
Provided by University of Piraeus
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Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming: Insights and New Developments
Aug 2011
Internet media content delivery started to emerge roughly a decade ago, and it has subsequently had a major impact on network traffic and usage. Although traditional client-server systems were...
Provided by University of Athens
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Service Quality in P2P Streaming Systems
Nov 2010
Relying on end users to contribute bandwidth to the system Peer-To-Peer (P2P) overlays provide a cheap and scalable way to distribute live video content in the Internet. However, being inherently...
Provided by Tampere University of Technology
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Improving Scalability, Manageability, and Performance for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Solutions
Sep 2007
No one disputes the theoretical advantages of Network-Attached Storage (NAS) compared to direct-attached storage. The inefficiencies involved with multiple, separate data storage platforms can be...
Provided by sgi
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Analyzing the Scalability of Graph Algorithms on Eldorado
Jan 2008
The Cray MTA-2 system provides exceptional performance on a variety of sparse graph algorithms. Unfortunately, it was an extremely expensive platform. Cray is preparing an Eldorado platform that...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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A Scalable Peer-to-Peer System for Music Content and Information Retrieval
Jan 2008
Currently a large percentage of Internet traffic consists of music files, typically stored in MP3 compressed audio format, shared and exchanged over Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. Searching for...
Provided by Johns Hopkins University
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VDCBPI: An Approximate Scalable Algorithm for Large POMDPs
Jan 2008
Existing algorithms for discrete partially observable Markov decision processes can at best solve problems of a few thousand states due to two important sources of intractability: the curse of...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Scalable Hybrid Search on Distributed Databases
Jan 2008
A hybrid keyword search that combines metadata search with a traditional keyword search over unstructured context data has been previously described. This hybrid search paradigm provides the...
Provided by Florida State University
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White Papers
Binomial Graph: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Logical Network Topology
Sep 2007
The number of processors embedded in high performance computing platforms is growing daily to solve larger and more complex problems. The logical network topologies must also support the high...
Provided by University of Tennessee
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White Papers
Scalable AOI-Cast for Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments
Mar 2008
Networked Virtual Environments (NVEs) are computer-generated virtual worlds where users interact by exchanging messages via network connections. Each NVE user often pays attention to only a...
Provided by National Central University
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White Papers
BGP Routing Scalability: Reflectors Vs. Route Servers
Jan 2008
Autonomous systems need to be connected using BGP servers. To reduce the complexity of connecting these systems together, researchers have suggested that route servers or routing databases be...
Provided by University of Alberta
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White Papers
Linux Virtual Server for Scalable Network Services
Jan 2008
This paper describes the motivation, design, internal implementation of Linux Virtual Server. The goal of Linux Virtual Server is to provide a basic framework to build highly scalable and highly...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
An Incrementally Scalable Multiprocessor Interconnection Network With Flexible Topology and Low-Cost Distributed Switching
Jan 2008
Massively parallel computing architectures are becoming widely accepted in many computationally intensive areas. One of the prime advantages touted is their scalability, and yet while in principle...
Provided by Monash University
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White Papers
Pastis: A Highly-Scalable Multi-User Peer-to-Peer File System
Jan 2008
This paper introduces Pastis, a completely decentralized multi-user read-write peer-to-peer file system. In Pastis every file is described by a modifiable inode-like structure which contains the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Scalable Load-Distance Balancing
Jan 2008
This paper introduces the problem of load-distance balancing in assigning users of a delay-sensitive networked application to servers. The paper models the service delay experienced by a user as a...
Provided by Israel Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Testing the Scalability of Overlay Routing Infrastructures
Jan 2008
Recent studies have demonstrated the utility of alternate paths in improving connectivity of two end hosts. However studies that comprehensively evaluate the tradeoff between its effectiveness and...
Provided by University of North Carolina
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White Papers
Shared Receive Queue Based Scalable MPI Design for InfiniBand Clusters
Jan 2008
Clusters of several thousand nodes interconnected with InniBand, an emerging high-performance interconnect, have already appeared in the Top 500 list. The next-generation InniBand clusters are...
Provided by Ohio State University
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White Papers
Scalability and Robustness of Virtual Multicast for Synchronous Multimedia Distribution
Jan 2008
A simple UDP packet reflector for virtual multicast multimedia transfer is extended to form a distributed system of active elements that solves the scalability problem of otherwise centralistic...
Provided by Masaryk University
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White Papers
Scalable Position-Based Multicast for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Jan 2008
This paper presents Scalable Position-Based Multicast (SPBM), a multicast routing protocol for ad-hoc networks. SPBM uses the geographic position of nodes to provide a highly scalable group...
Provided by University of Mannheim
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White Papers
A Scalable Content-Addressable Network
Jan 2008
Hash tables - which map "Keys" onto "Values" - are an essential building block in modern software systems. It is believed that a similar functionality would be equally valuable to large...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Scalable Layer-2/Layer-3 Multistage Switching Architectures for Software Routers
Jan 2008
Software routers are becoming an important alternative to proprietary and expensive network devices, because they exploit the economy of scale of the PC market and open-source software. When...
Provided by Politecnico di Torino
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White Papers
Scalable and Energy Efficient Localisation in Wireless Sensor NetWorks
Jan 2008
A need exists for localisation algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) that are scalable, energy efficient and able to function in easy to deploy sensor networks. This paper proposes a...
Provided by University of Pretoria
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White Papers
A Programmable, Scalable-Throughput Interleaver
Mar 2010
The inter-leaver stages of digital communication standards show a surprisingly large variation in throughput, state sizes, and permutation functions. Furthermore, data rates for 4G standards such...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Field Division Routing
Jun 2010
Multihop communication objectives and constraints impose a set of challenging requirements that create difficult conditions for simultaneous optimization of features such as scalability and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Design and Analysis of an Energy-Saving Distributed MAC Mechanism for Wireless Body Sensor Networks
Aug 2010
The fact that the IEEE 802.15.4MAC does not fully satisfy the strict wireless Body Sensor Network (BSN) requirements in healthcare systems highlights the need for the design and analysis of new...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Scalable Ad Hoc Networks for Arbitrary-Cast: Practical Broadcast-Relay Transmission Strategy Leveraging Physical-Layer Network Coding
Feb 2008
The capacity of wireless ad hoc networks is constrained by the interference of concurrent transmissions among nodes. Instead of only trying to avoid the interference, Physical-layer Network Coding...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Energy-Efficient Reservation-Based Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Aug 2010
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), a robust and energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is required for high energy efficiency in harsh operating conditions, where node and link...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Tree Based Protocol for Key Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2010
Securing a wireless communication has generally a vital importance, particularly when this communication is in a hostile environment like in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The problem is how to...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Scalable TCP: Better Throughput in TCP Congestion Control Algorithms on MANETs
Aug 2011
In the modern mobile communication world the congestion control algorithms role is vital to data transmission between mobile devices. It provides better and reliable communication capabilities in...
Provided by The Science and Information Organization
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7DS - Node Cooperation and Information Exchange in Mostly Disconnected Networks
Jun 2007
When the node density in a network decreases below the level necessary to sustain ad-hoc and mesh networks, communication can succeed only by leveraging node mobility and transitioning to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
How Different VPN Approaches Affect Site-to-Site Scalability and Connectivity: Comparison of Rule-Based, Route-Based and Dynamic Route-Based VPNs
Feb 2008
A Dynamic Route-based VPN provides significant management benefits over a Rule-based VPN or a Route-based VPN. This paper discusses how the topology of the network is integral to the VPN policy in...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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White Papers
DOH: A Content Delivery Peer-to-Peer Network
Jan 2008
Many SMEs and non-profit organizations suffer when their Web servers become unavailable due to flash crowd effects when their web site becomes popular. One of the solutions to the flash-crowd...
Provided by Swedish Institute of Computer Science
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White Papers
Dynamic Multi Level Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Sensor Networks
Sep 2011
Wireless sensor networks have the problem of lifetime and scalability. To increase lifetime and scalability it is necessary to have control over topology of the network even when dynamically...
Provided by Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs)
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White Papers
On the Scalability of Fair Queueing
Jan 2008
The scalability of fair queueing depends on the number of flows that have, or recently have had, packets in the queue. Applying known facts about statistical traffic characteristics at flow level,...
Provided by Politecnico di Torino
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White Papers
Scalable Non-Blocking Infrastructure Management: A Comparative Study
Mar 2008
Today's enterprise environments impose demands for a large-scale, highly available, fault tolerant physical layer infrastructure. Typical storage area and data communication network environments,...
Provided by OnPATH Technologies
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Whitepapers
Elements of a Scalable Network File System Protocol
Jan 2008
Standardized Network File System protocols (e.g. NFS, CIFS) have been highly successful in enabling data to be shared among multiple clients and across heterogeneous computing platforms. The key...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
Regional Telecommunications Company Opts for Excellent Service Delivery to Beat Big Carriers
Aug 2011
West Central Telephone Association (WCTA) is a full-service telecommunications. The main challenges were to prepare for anticipated growth and the addition of new technologies including triple...
Provided by Extreme Networks
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A New Framework for GLIF Interdomain Resource Reservation Architecture (GIRRA)
Mar 2010
Many existing and emerging Scientific high-end applications (E-science) require end-to-end circuits interconnecting Grid resources for large data transfers. A few advanced Networks, mainly...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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An Adaptive Inter-Domain PCE Framework to Improve Resource Utilization and Reduce Inter-Domain Signaling
Aug 2009
Upcoming broadband commercial and scientific applications are now demanding high bandwidth pipes across multiple domains with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS). Recent research initiatives such...
Provided by Nokia
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Evaluating the Efficiency of Clustering on Routing and Network Performance
May 2008
The intrinsic characteristics of ad hoc networks, such as the frequent connectivity changes and the strict bandwidth and power constraints, impose further challenges, especially for routing tasks....
Provided by University of Manouba
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A Reconfigurable Distributed Multiagent System Optimized for Scalability
Jan 2011
This paper proposes a novel solution for optimizing the size and communication overhead of a distributed multiagent system without compromising the performance. The proposed approach addresses the...
Provided by West Virginia University
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White Papers
The K-Observer Problem in Computer Networks
Apr 2011
For any non-negative integer K, a K-observer P of a network N is a set of nodes in N such that each message, that travels at least K hops in N, is handled (and so observed) by at least one node in...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Predicting Network Response Times Using Social Information
Dec 2010
Social networks and discussion boards have become a significant outlet where people communicate and express their opinion freely. Although the social networks themselves are usually...
Provided by George Mason University
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Components Based Key Management Algorithm for Storage Area Networks
May 2011
Data sharing and file distributions are the two primary functions of network attached storages. Fibre Channel based Storage Area Networks (FC-SAN) have become a more popular solution for the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Scalability of Relaxed Consistency Models in NoC Based Multicore Architectures
Dec 2009
This paper studies realization of relaxed memory consistency models in the network-on-chip based Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) multi-core systems. Within DSM systems, memory consistency is a...
Provided by KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Scalability of Network-on-Chip Communication Architecture for 3-D Meshes
Apr 2009
Design Constraints imposed by global interconnect delays as well as limitations in integration of disparate technologies make 3-D chip stacks an enticing technology solution for massively...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Towards Hierarchical Cluster Based Cache Coherence for Large-Scale Network-on-Chip
Mar 2009
Network-on-Chip (NoC) is considered to be a promising scheme for future MPSoCs. NoC can provide high bandwidth, low latency, parallel communication and scalable design exploration space. The...
Provided by Nanjing University
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White Papers
Authentication Schemes for Multimedia Streams: Quantitative Analysis and Comparison
Feb 2010
With the rapid increase in the demand for multimedia services, securing the delivery of multimedia content has become an important issue. Accordingly, the problem of multimedia stream...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Partitioning of Multiple Fine-Grained Scalable Video Sequences Concurrently Streamed to Heterogeneous Clients
Apr 2008
Fine-Grained Scalable (FGS) coding of video streams has been proposed in the literature to accommodate client heterogeneity. FGS streams are composed of two layers: a base layer, which provides...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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End-to-End Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams
Jun 2009
The authors investigate the problem of securing the delivery of scalable video streams so that receivers can ensure the authenticity (originality and integrity) of the video. The focus is on...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Deterministic Worst-Case Performance Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks
May 2008
Dimensioning wireless sensor networks requires formal methods to guarantee network performance and cost in any conditions. Based on network calculus, this paper presents a deterministic analysis...
Provided by KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Traffic Splitting With Network Calculus for Mesh Sensor Networks
Sep 2007
In many applications of sensor networks, it is essential to ensure that messages are transmitted to their destinations as early as possible and the buffer size of each sensor node is as small as...
Provided by Fudan University
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Mapping Optimisation for Scalable Multi-Core ARchiTecture: The MOSART Approach
Apr 2010
The project will address two main challenges of prevailing architectures: The global interconnect and memory bottleneck due to a single, globally shared memory with high access times and power...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Scalability of Weak Consistency in NoC Based Multicore Architectures
Jan 2010
In Multicore Network-on-Chip, it is preferable to realize Distributed but Shared Memory (DSM) in order to reuse the huge amount of legacy code. Within DSM systems, memory consistency is a critical...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Realization and Scalability of Release and Protected Release Consistency Models in NoC Based Systems
Jun 2011
This paper studies the realization and scalability of release and protected release consistency models in Network-on-Chip (NoC) based Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) multi-core systems. The...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Aziala-Net: Deploying a Scalable Multi-Hop Wireless Testbed Platform for Research Purposes
May 2009
Aziala-net is a flexible and scalable experimental testbed for wireless multi-hop networks based on simple off-the-shelf hardware that is able to adapt to various research purposes. It is composed...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Starburst SSD: An Efficient Protocol for Selective Dissemination
Mar 2009
The authors present Starburst, a routing-based protocol designed to efficiently disseminate data items to small subsets within a sensor network. Starburst constructs a routing hierarchy to enable...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Emerson: Scripting for Federated Virtual Worlds
Jul 2010
The authors introduce Emerson, a scripting language for virtual worlds that are seamless, scalable, and federated. These worlds present a number of unique challenges. Most importantly, scripts...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Exploiting Query Feedback for Efficient Query Routing in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks
Jun 2009
Unstructured peer-to-peer networks are popular due to its robustness and scalability. Query schemes that are being used in unstructured peer-to-peer such as the flooding and interest-based...
Provided by Universiti Putra Malaysia
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White Papers
Scalable Adhoc Entity Extraction From Text Collections
Aug 2008
Supporting entity extraction from large document collections is important for enabling a variety of important data analysis tasks. In this paper, the authors introduce the "Ad-hoc" entity...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Virtual Machines Cooperation for Impatient Jobs Under Cloud Paradigm
Jun 2011
The increase in the demand of IT resources diverts enterprises to use the cloud as a cheap and scalable solution. Cloud computing promises are achieved by using the virtual machine as a basic unit...
Provided by University Putra Malaysia
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White Papers
KeyChains: A Decentralized Public-Key Infrastructure
Jan 2011
A Certification Authority (CA) can be used to certify keys and build a Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) when all users trust the same CA. A decentralized PKI trades off absolute assurance on keys...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
A Framework for Quantitative Analysis of Cascades on Networks
Feb 2011
How does information flow in online social networks? How does the structure and size of the information cascade evolve in time? How can people efficiently mine the information contained in cascade...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
On the Database/Network Interface in Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe Systems
Jan 2011
The work performed by a publish/subscribe system can conceptually be divided into subscription processing and notification dissemination. Traditionally, research in the database and networking...
Provided by Duke University
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White Papers
End-to-End Support for Joins in LargeScale Publish/Subscribe Systems
Aug 2008
The authors address the problem of supporting a large number of select-join subscriptions for wide-area publish/subscribe. Subscriptions are joins over different tables, with varying interests...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Highly Scalable and Efficient Distributed File Storage System
Dec 2009
The need and use of large scale distributed storage has rapidly increased in last few years. Organizations need Terabytes of storage for their operational data and backups. Large storage systems...
Provided by University of Engineering and Technology Taxila
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White Papers
A Group Key Management Approach for Multicast Cryptosystems
Mar 2010
The security in the multicast communication in the large groups is the major obstacles for effectively controlling access to the transmitting data. The IP Multicast itself does not provide any...
Provided by JATIT
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White Papers
Investigating the Scalability of the Fish-Eye State Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
Feb 2010
The overall goal of this paper is to investigate the scalability of the Fish-eye State Routing (FSR) protocol under different network scenarios in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs). This performance...
Provided by JATIT
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White Papers
A Super-Logarithmic Lower Bound for Shuffle-Unshuffle Sorting Networks
Aug 2010
A variety of different classes of sorting networks have been described in the literature. Of particular interest here are the so-called AKS network discovered by Ajtai, Komlos, and Szemeredi, and...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Second-Order Methods for Distributed Approximate Single-And Multicommodity Flow
Aug 2010
The authors study local-control algorithms for maximum flow and multicommodity flow problems in distributed networks. The authors propose a second-order method for accelerating the convergence of...
Provided by Polytechnic University
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White Papers
Fast Recovery From Dual Link or Single Node Failures in IP Networks Using Tunneling
Jul 2010
This paper develops novel mechanisms for recovering from failures in IP networks with proactive backup path calculations and IP tunneling. The primary scheme provides resilience for up to two link...
Provided by University of Arizona
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White Papers
SENCAST: A Scalable Protocol for Unicasting and Multicasting in a Large Ad Hoc Emergency Network
Feb 2008
This paper presents a novel protocol, SENCAST, a scalable protocol for large ad hoc emergency network for unicasting and multicasting. SENCAST is scalable to a very large ad hoc network and...
Provided by University of Mauritius
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White Papers
Secure Microkernels, State Monads and Scalable Refinement
May 2008
The authors present a scalable, practical Hoare Logic and refinement calculus for the nondeterministic state monad with exceptions and failure in Isabelle/HOL. The emphasis of this formalisation...
Provided by NICTA
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White Papers
Performance Evaluation of Competing High-Speed TCP Protocols
Jun 2008
Fairness and efficiency were, and still are, the center of the most of researches conducted to evaluate the performance of high-speed TCP protocols. The majority of these researches were carried...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Survey on Congestion Control Protocols for High Speed Networks
Jul 2008
Conventional TCP suffers from poor performance on high bandwidth delay product links meant for supporting transmission rates of multi Gigabits per second (Gbps). This is largely due to TCP's...
Provided by Dravidian University
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White Papers
Worm Detection at Network Endpoints Using Information-Theoretic Traffic Perturbations
Sep 2008
In this paper, the authors propose an endpoint-based anomaly detection scheme that detects computer worms by comparing the current traffic patterns of each host to the corresponding benign traffic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Local and Global Stability of Delayed Congestion Control Systems
Nov 2008
Stability proofs of nonlinear congestion control systems under heterogeneous feedback delays are usually difficult and involve a fair amount of effort. In this paper, the authors show that there...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Towards Experimental Evaluation of Explicit Congestion Control
Dec 2008
Innovative efforts to provide a clean-slate design of congestion control for future high-speed heterogeneous networks have recently led to the development of explicit congestion control. These...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Queuing Dynamics and Single-Link Stability of Delay-Based Window Congestion Control
Oct 2009
Accurate modeling of queuing dynamics is important in the design and analysis of Internet congestion control. However, as demonstrated in this paper, existing window-based queuing models are often...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Scalable Hybrid Search on Distributed Databases
Jan 2008
A hybrid keyword search that combines metadata search with a traditional keyword search over unstructured context data has been previously described. This hybrid search paradigm provides the...
Provided by Florida State University
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White Papers
Binomial Graph: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Logical Network Topology
Sep 2007
The number of processors embedded in high performance computing platforms is growing daily to solve larger and more complex problems. The logical network topologies must also support the high...
Provided by University of Tennessee
-
White Papers
Scalable AOI-Cast for Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments
Mar 2008
Networked Virtual Environments (NVEs) are computer-generated virtual worlds where users interact by exchanging messages via network connections. Each NVE user often pays attention to only a...
Provided by National Central University
-
White Papers
BGP Routing Scalability: Reflectors Vs. Route Servers
Jan 2008
Autonomous systems need to be connected using BGP servers. To reduce the complexity of connecting these systems together, researchers have suggested that route servers or routing databases be...
Provided by University of Alberta
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White Papers
Linux Virtual Server for Scalable Network Services
Jan 2008
This paper describes the motivation, design, internal implementation of Linux Virtual Server. The goal of Linux Virtual Server is to provide a basic framework to build highly scalable and highly...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
An Incrementally Scalable Multiprocessor Interconnection Network With Flexible Topology and Low-Cost Distributed Switching
Jan 2008
Massively parallel computing architectures are becoming widely accepted in many computationally intensive areas. One of the prime advantages touted is their scalability, and yet while in principle...
Provided by Monash University
-
White Papers
Pastis: A Highly-Scalable Multi-User Peer-to-Peer File System
Jan 2008
This paper introduces Pastis, a completely decentralized multi-user read-write peer-to-peer file system. In Pastis every file is described by a modifiable inode-like structure which contains the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Scalable Load-Distance Balancing
Jan 2008
This paper introduces the problem of load-distance balancing in assigning users of a delay-sensitive networked application to servers. The paper models the service delay experienced by a user as a...
Provided by Israel Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Testing the Scalability of Overlay Routing Infrastructures
Jan 2008
Recent studies have demonstrated the utility of alternate paths in improving connectivity of two end hosts. However studies that comprehensively evaluate the tradeoff between its effectiveness and...
Provided by University of North Carolina
-
White Papers
Shared Receive Queue Based Scalable MPI Design for InfiniBand Clusters
Jan 2008
Clusters of several thousand nodes interconnected with InniBand, an emerging high-performance interconnect, have already appeared in the Top 500 list. The next-generation InniBand clusters are...
Provided by Ohio State University
-
White Papers
Scalability and Robustness of Virtual Multicast for Synchronous Multimedia Distribution
Jan 2008
A simple UDP packet reflector for virtual multicast multimedia transfer is extended to form a distributed system of active elements that solves the scalability problem of otherwise centralistic...
Provided by Masaryk University
-
White Papers
Scalable Position-Based Multicast for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Jan 2008
This paper presents Scalable Position-Based Multicast (SPBM), a multicast routing protocol for ad-hoc networks. SPBM uses the geographic position of nodes to provide a highly scalable group...
Provided by University of Mannheim
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White Papers
A Scalable Content-Addressable Network
Jan 2008
Hash tables - which map "Keys" onto "Values" - are an essential building block in modern software systems. It is believed that a similar functionality would be equally valuable to large...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
Scalable Layer-2/Layer-3 Multistage Switching Architectures for Software Routers
Jan 2008
Software routers are becoming an important alternative to proprietary and expensive network devices, because they exploit the economy of scale of the PC market and open-source software. When...
Provided by Politecnico di Torino
-
White Papers
Scalable and Energy Efficient Localisation in Wireless Sensor NetWorks
Jan 2008
A need exists for localisation algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) that are scalable, energy efficient and able to function in easy to deploy sensor networks. This paper proposes a...
Provided by University of Pretoria
-
White Papers
A Programmable, Scalable-Throughput Interleaver
Mar 2010
The inter-leaver stages of digital communication standards show a surprisingly large variation in throughput, state sizes, and permutation functions. Furthermore, data rates for 4G standards such...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Field Division Routing
Jun 2010
Multihop communication objectives and constraints impose a set of challenging requirements that create difficult conditions for simultaneous optimization of features such as scalability and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Design and Analysis of an Energy-Saving Distributed MAC Mechanism for Wireless Body Sensor Networks
Aug 2010
The fact that the IEEE 802.15.4MAC does not fully satisfy the strict wireless Body Sensor Network (BSN) requirements in healthcare systems highlights the need for the design and analysis of new...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Scalable Ad Hoc Networks for Arbitrary-Cast: Practical Broadcast-Relay Transmission Strategy Leveraging Physical-Layer Network Coding
Feb 2008
The capacity of wireless ad hoc networks is constrained by the interference of concurrent transmissions among nodes. Instead of only trying to avoid the interference, Physical-layer Network Coding...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Energy-Efficient Reservation-Based Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Aug 2010
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), a robust and energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is required for high energy efficiency in harsh operating conditions, where node and link...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Tree Based Protocol for Key Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2010
Securing a wireless communication has generally a vital importance, particularly when this communication is in a hostile environment like in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The problem is how to...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Scalable TCP: Better Throughput in TCP Congestion Control Algorithms on MANETs
Aug 2011
In the modern mobile communication world the congestion control algorithms role is vital to data transmission between mobile devices. It provides better and reliable communication capabilities in...
Provided by The Science and Information Organization
-
White Papers
7DS - Node Cooperation and Information Exchange in Mostly Disconnected Networks
Jun 2007
When the node density in a network decreases below the level necessary to sustain ad-hoc and mesh networks, communication can succeed only by leveraging node mobility and transitioning to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
How Different VPN Approaches Affect Site-to-Site Scalability and Connectivity: Comparison of Rule-Based, Route-Based and Dynamic Route-Based VPNs
Feb 2008
A Dynamic Route-based VPN provides significant management benefits over a Rule-based VPN or a Route-based VPN. This paper discusses how the topology of the network is integral to the VPN policy in...
Provided by Juniper Networks
-
White Papers
DOH: A Content Delivery Peer-to-Peer Network
Jan 2008
Many SMEs and non-profit organizations suffer when their Web servers become unavailable due to flash crowd effects when their web site becomes popular. One of the solutions to the flash-crowd...
Provided by Swedish Institute of Computer Science
-
White Papers
Dynamic Multi Level Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Sensor Networks
Sep 2011
Wireless sensor networks have the problem of lifetime and scalability. To increase lifetime and scalability it is necessary to have control over topology of the network even when dynamically...
Provided by Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs)
-
White Papers
On the Scalability of Fair Queueing
Jan 2008
The scalability of fair queueing depends on the number of flows that have, or recently have had, packets in the queue. Applying known facts about statistical traffic characteristics at flow level,...
Provided by Politecnico di Torino
-
White Papers
Scalable Non-Blocking Infrastructure Management: A Comparative Study
Mar 2008
Today's enterprise environments impose demands for a large-scale, highly available, fault tolerant physical layer infrastructure. Typical storage area and data communication network environments,...
Provided by OnPATH Technologies
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Whitepapers
Elements of a Scalable Network File System Protocol
Jan 2008
Standardized Network File System protocols (e.g. NFS, CIFS) have been highly successful in enabling data to be shared among multiple clients and across heterogeneous computing platforms. The key...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
Regional Telecommunications Company Opts for Excellent Service Delivery to Beat Big Carriers
Aug 2011
West Central Telephone Association (WCTA) is a full-service telecommunications. The main challenges were to prepare for anticipated growth and the addition of new technologies including triple...
Provided by Extreme Networks
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White Papers
A New Framework for GLIF Interdomain Resource Reservation Architecture (GIRRA)
Mar 2010
Many existing and emerging Scientific high-end applications (E-science) require end-to-end circuits interconnecting Grid resources for large data transfers. A few advanced Networks, mainly...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
An Adaptive Inter-Domain PCE Framework to Improve Resource Utilization and Reduce Inter-Domain Signaling
Aug 2009
Upcoming broadband commercial and scientific applications are now demanding high bandwidth pipes across multiple domains with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS). Recent research initiatives such...
Provided by Nokia
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White Papers
An Evolutionary Approach to End-to-End Addressing and Routing in all-Ethernet Wide-Area Networks
Jun 2010
While the introduction of new Ethernet-based wide-area solutions, such as provider-backbone bridging traffic engineering - PBB-TE, paves a way for Ethernet to become a carrier class service, it is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Modeling on Quicksand
Sep 2011
Researchers studying the inter-domain routing system, its properties and new protocols, face many challenges in performing realistic evaluations and simulations. Modeling decisions with respect to...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
AngelCast: Cloud-Based Peer-Assisted Live Streaming Using Optimized Multi-Tree Construction
Feb 2011
Increasingly, commercial Content Providers (CPs) offer streaming and IPTV solutions that leverage an underlying Peer-To-Peer (P2P) stream distribution architecture. The use of P2P protocols...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
HTTPOS: Sealing Information Leaks With Browser-Side Obfuscation of Encrypted Flows
Dec 2010
Leakage of private information from web applications - even when the traffic is encrypted - is a major security threat to many applications that use HTTP for data delivery. This paper considers...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Enforcing User Privacy in Web Applications Using Erlang
Apr 2010
Social networking applications on the web handle the personal data of a large number of concurrently active users. These applications must comply with complex privacy requirements, while achieving...
Provided by Imperial College London
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White Papers
Scalable APRIORI-Based Frequent Pattern Discovery
Jun 2009
Frequent pattern discovery, the task of finding sets of items that frequently occur together in a dataset, has been at the core of the field of data mining for the past sixteen years. In that...
Provided by University of Victoria
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White Papers
Nepheli: Scalable Decentralized Authorization in Federated File Services
Apr 2010
The authors consider the problem of remote access control in federated file services across independent administrative domains. Existing approaches either establish complex trust relationships...
Provided by University of Ioannina
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White Papers
BitShred: Feature Hashing Malware for Scalable Triage and Semantic Analysis
Oct 2011
The sheer volume of new malware found each day is growing at an exponential pace. This growth has created a need for automatic malware triage techniques that determine what malware is similar,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
