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Case Studies
Momentum Expands Service Offering With Nimsoft Monitoring System
Feb 2010
Momentum offers tailored Internet outsourcing solutions to clients in the US and Canada, including best-in-class managed hosting services. Momentum Advanced Solutions ("Momentum") wanted to grow...
Provided by Nimsoft
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Case Studies
Atrion Enhances Managed Services, Profit Margins With Nimsoft
Oct 2009
Established in 1987, Atrion Networking Corporation has been offering managed services for more than 14 years. Atrion wanted to gain end-to-end service level monitoring insights needed to...
Provided by Nimsoft
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Case Studies
Alvaka Networks Shaves Cost and Risk Off Monitoring Services With Nimsoft Monitoring Solution
Jan 2010
Alvaka is an Old Icelandic word for "Ever Vigilant" or "Always Awake." Being ever vigilant is critical for Alvaka Networks, whose primary responsibility it is to monitor its clients' IT...
Provided by Nimsoft
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Case Studies
Sound Monitoring Strategy Gives Peace of Mind to Arrowgrass Customers
Nov 2009
A spin-off of Deutsche Bank with offices in London and New York, Arrowgrass Capital Partners manages regulated alternative investments in a broad range of asset classes. Arrowgrass needed to...
Provided by Nimsoft
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Case Studies
Airlines Reporting Corporation Deploys Scalable, Customized Monitoring Solution and Improves User Experience
Sep 2009
Airline Reporting Corporation supports more than 180 airlines from around the world, distributing and settling their products with its pioneering e-ticket processing and settlement solution....
Provided by Nimsoft
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Case Studies
ISC Optimizes Managed Services and Operations With Nimsoft
Aug 2009
Established in 1984, ISC is a highly accredited IT solution provider that offers IT infrastructure supply, implementation, and support services. ISC wanted to support for an expanding managed...
Provided by Nimsoft
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Case Studies
ENKI Monitors the Cloud With Nimsoft
May 2009
Buoyed by a sophisticated infrastructure, veteran leadership, and quality-focused processes, ENKI has established itself as one of the leading service providers in the massively expanding managed...
Provided by Nimsoft
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Case Studies
Major Win for Indicative in the Travel Services Industry Worldspan - The Leader in Travel Technology and Applications
Apr 2008
Worldspan is the global leader in travel technology services for travel suppliers, travel agencies, e-commerce sites and corporations. Worldspan was pressed to invest more and more in the...
Provided by Nimsoft
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White Papers
Introducing Standby Capabilities Into Next-Generation Network Devices
Nov 2010
In this contribution, the main objective is to introduce and to support standby modes in next-generation devices for backbone networks. The main idea consists of periodically reconfiguring nodes...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Should Specific Values Be Embedded in the Internet Architecture?
Nov 2010
A fundamental disagreement in the Future Internet debate concerns architecture design and value. Should an architecture incorporate inherent values that have been widely accepted through societal...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Design Considerations for a Network of Information
Dec 2008
The existing Internet ecosystem is a result of decades of evolution. It has managed to scale well beyond the original aspirations. Evolution, though, highlighted a certain degree of inadequacies...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Evaluating the Suitability of Server Network Cards for Software Routers
Nov 2010
The advent of multicore CPUs has led to renewed interest in software routers built from commodity PC hardware. The typical approach to scaling network processing in these systems is to distribute...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Overlay-Friendly Native Network: A Contradiction in Terms?
Jan 2011
It is a widely accepted notion that the native layer of the current Internet has begun to stagnate in terms of the services offered. Consequently, overlay networks have gained attention as a...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
A Programmable, Generic Forwarding Element Approach for Dynamic Network Functionality
Aug 2009
Communication networks are growing exponentially, and new services and applications are being introduced unceasingly. To meet the demands of these services and applications, current network...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Case Studies
Dutch Schools Improve IT Management and Security With Operating System Upgrade
Nov 2010
In 2007, Liemers High School in Zevenaar, Didam, the Netherlands, became part of the Quadraam Education Group, which includes 12 other high schools. To improve operational efficiency, the Quadraam...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Energy Producer Fuels Productivity, Mobility With Robust Operating System
Nov 2010
With six thermoelectric and three hydroelectric power plants, Edipower is one of the largest energy producers in Italy. The company generates 7 percent of the national demand, with a throughput of...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Recursive Temporal Namespaces
Dec 2008
Recursive Temporal (RT) namespaces extend spatial namespaces such as IP with the notion of a nested time interval. RT namespace is an architectural approach to dealing with the uncertainty...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Implementation of End-to-End Abstractions in a Network Service Architecture
Dec 2008
To support the increasing diversity of systems and protocols in the Internet, modern routers offer a variety of data path processing functions. Such "Network Services" are easy to implement on a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
mPlane: An Architecture for Scalable Fault Localization
Dec 2009
Customers are increasingly demanding service-level guarantees from ISPs. ISPs use active probes for monitoring network health and use tomography approaches to localize any end-to-end problems...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Webcasts
Cheaper, Faster & Better: Monitoring z/OS in the Age of zEnterprise
Nov 2010
Life would really be great for systems programmers if only the management of z/OS could be done quickly, easily, and cost effectively. Is that just wishful thinking or could that really happen?...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Scalability and Scheduling in an Agent Architecture
Jan 2011
For a given agent goal or objective there will be many different possible task execution paths for achieving the goal. One method for achieving the goal is to algorithmically determine the "Best"...
Provided by University of Delaware
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White Papers
A Bayesian Network Framework for Reject Inference
Jan 2011
Most learning methods assume that the training set is drawn randomly from the population to which the learned model is to be applied. However in many applications this assumption is invalid. For...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
A Survey on Distributed Approaches to Graph Based Reputation Measures
Oct 2007
Reputation systems are indispensable for the operation of Internet mediated services, electronic markets, document ranking systems, P2P networks and Ad Hoc networks. Here the authors' survey...
Provided by ICST
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White Papers
Large-Scale Network Simulation Scalability and an FPGA-Based Network Simulator
Dec 2008
Network algorithms are deployed on large networks, and proper algorithm evaluation is necessary to avoid large-scale outages or performance bottlenecks. However, evaluating a network algorithm in...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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White Papers
Scalability and Robustness of a Market-Based Network Resource Allocation System
Dec 2009
This paper considers issues related to scalability and robustness in designing a market-based multi-agent system that allocates bandwidth in a communications network. Specically, an empirical...
Provided by University of Southampton
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White Papers
JumboGen: Dynamic Jumbo Frame Generation for Network Performance Scalability
Jun 2007
Network line speeds have increased at a significant rate. Unfortunately, network performance has not been able to keep pace with increases in line speed. This is due to the majority of packets...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
Synchronization-Based Scalability of Complex Clustered Networks
Nov 2008
Complex clustered networks arise in biological, social, physical, and technological systems, and the synchronous dynamics on such networks have attracted recent interests. Here the authors...
Provided by American Institute of Physics
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White Papers
On the Scalability of an Efficient "Nonscalable" Key Distribution Scheme
Aug 2008
Some important requirements of key distribution schemes for many emerging applications involving resource constrained devices (For example, ad hoc and sensor networks) are low complexity; the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Sharing Networked Resources With Brokered Leases
Jan 2011
This paper presents the design and implementation of Shirako, a system for on-demand leasing of shared networked resources. Shirako is a prototype of a service-oriented architecture for resource...
Provided by Duke University
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White Papers
Large Margin Classification in Infinite Neural Networks
Mar 2010
The authors introduce a new family of positive-definite kernels for large margin classification in Support Vector Machines (SVMs). These kernels mimic the computation in large neural networks with...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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White Papers
ShortCuts: Using Soft State to Improve DHT Routing
Jan 2011
Distributed hash tables are increasingly being proposed as the core substrate for content delivery applications in the Internet, such as cooperative Web caches, Web index and search, and content...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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White Papers
Branch Prediction With Neural Networks: Hidden Layers and Recurrent Connections
Jan 2011
As Moore's law forces modern computer microarchitectures to increasingly rely on speculation, accurately predicting branches becomes more important in keeping the pipeline full. Previous work has...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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White Papers
California Fault Lines: Understanding the Causes and Impact of Network Failures
Sep 2010
Of the major factors affecting end-to-end service availability, network component failure is perhaps the least well understood. How often do failures occur, how long do they last, what are their...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Towards Feasibility and Scalability of Text Search in Peer-to-Peer Systems
Nov 2007
This paper introduces a search engine, Dgoogle, designed for large scale P2P systems. Dgoogle is purely text-based, does not organize documents based on pre-defined keywords or based on their...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
Scalability in Adaptive Multi-Metric Overlays
Jan 2011
Increasing application requirements have placed heavy emphasis on building overlay networks to efficiently deliver data to multiple receivers. A key performance challenge is simultaneously...
Provided by Duke University
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White Papers
Multiple View Scalability of Presentations Distributed to Heterogeneous Devices
May 2010
This paper presents a novel approach of distributing lecture video by capturing multiple region of interest video streams from a high definition camera and then distributing via a peer-to-peer...
Provided by University of Houston
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On Maximum Stability With Enhanced Scalability in High-Churn DHT Deployment
Jun 2009
When applied in a commercial deployment, DHTbased P2P protocols face a dilemma: although most real-world participants are so unstable that the maintenance overhead is prohibitively high, they must...
Provided by Nanjing University
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Improving Scalability of Task Allocation and Scheduling in Large Distributed Real-Time Systems Using Shared Buffers
Jan 2011
Scheduling precedence-constrained tasks in a distributed real-time system is an NP-hard problem. As a result, the task allocation and scheduling algorithms that use these heuristics do not scale...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Scalability and Robustness in the Domain of Web-Based Tutoring
Apr 2009
Web-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems distribute content using a server based infrastructure. These systems need to be easily accessible to provide a reliable and scalable architecture for...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Scalability and Evolutionary Dynamics of Air Transportation Networks in the United States
Oct 2007
With the growing demand for air transportation and the limited ability to increase capacity at key points in the air transportation system, there are concerns that, in the future, the system will...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Controlled Conflict Resolution for Replicated Document
Dec 2012
Collaborative working is increasingly popular, but it presents challenges due to the need for high responsiveness and disconnected work support. To address these challenges the data is...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Model-Order Reduction of Biochemical Reaction Networks
Dec 2012
In this paper, the authors propose a model-order reduction method for chemical reaction networks governed by general enzyme kinetics, including the mass-action and Michaelis-Menten kinetics. The...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Feedback Compression Schemes for Downlink Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced
Sep 2011
With full Channel State Information (CSI) available, it has been shown that Carrier Aggregation (CA) in the downlink can significantly improve the data rate experienced at the User Equipments...
Provided by Aalborg University
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Reduced-Rank Detection for Hybrid Direct-Sequence Time-Hopping UWB Systems in Nakagami-M Fading Channels
Aug 2008
This paper investigates and compares the performance of hybrid Direct-Sequence Time-Hopping (DS-TH) Ultra-Wide Bandwidth (UWB) systems using full-rank and various reduced-rank detections when...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Normalised Least Mean-Square Aided Decision-Directed Adaptive Detection in Hybrid Direct-Sequence Time-Hopping UWB Systems
Aug 2008
In this paper, Decision-Directed adaptive detection scheme based on Normalised Least Mean-Square (DD/NLMS) principles is proposed and investigated for the hybrid Direct-Sequence Time-Hopping...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A Realization of FIR Filters with Simultaneously Variable Bandwidth and Fractional Delay
Aug 2012
This paper introduces a realization of Finite-length Impulse Response (FIR) filters with simultaneously variable bandwidth and Fractional Delay (FD). The realization makes use of impulse responses...
Provided by EURASIP
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Modern Trends Used in Operating Systems for High Speed Computing Applications
Aug 2010
Operating system researches traditionally consist of adding new functions to the operating system in other words inventing and evaluating new methods for performing functions. Operating systems...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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Scalability Analysis of a Media Aware Network Element
Aug 2012
An architecture based on new concepts of Content Aware Networking (CAN) and Network Aware Applications (NAA) is proposed in FP7 ALICANTE research project as a better support for multimedia flows...
Provided by EURASIP
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Multi-Domain Virtual Content-Aware Networks Mapping on Network Resources
Aug 2012
For Future Internet multimedia distribution with different levels of guarantees a transport solution may consist in creation of parallel multi-domain Virtual Content Aware Networks (VCAN)...
Provided by EURASIP
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Whitepapers
Empirical Study on Ultra-Wideband Vehicle Radar
Aug 2008
High range-resolution radar using ultra wideband radio attracts considerable attention as a short range automotive radar. Radar echo from a target often contains unwanted echoes called as clutter,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Asynchronous Diffusion Adaptation Over Networks
Aug 2012
In this paper, the authors explain about the asynchronous behavior of diffusion adaptation strategies for distributed optimization over networks. Under the assumed model, agents in the network may...
Provided by EURASIP
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Whitepapers
Outdoor-Indoor Propagation Measurements and Link Performance in the VHF/UHF Bands
Aug 2009
Measurements for building penetration are performed in the VHF/ UHF bands using low antenna height (< 3 meters). Data analysis results such as transmission loss and rms delay spreads are reported...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Location Variability of the Field Strength Local Median Values in the Medium Wave Band
Aug 2008
The digital broadcasting systems (DRM and HD Radio/IBOC) developed in the last decade has renewed the interest for the MW band. The planning requirements of the digital services require more...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Waveform Optimization in UWB Antenna Systems Based on Prolate Spheroidal Wave Signal Spaces
Aug 2008
Antenna waveform distortion evaluation in Ultra-WideBand (UWB) communications has become an important concern due to the possible degradation in system performance. Fidelity is the typical measure...
Provided by University of Zagreb
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Deriving a Generic Energy Consumption Model for Network Enabled Devices
Jan 2010
Energy saving has become a global issue when people use network enabled equipment in the office or at home. However few methods exist to measure and monitor energy use per user or per application,...
Provided by University of Ulsan
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Network (Tree) Topology Inference Based on Prufer Sequence
Jan 2010
Network topology discovery is the basis for any network management application. The problem of estimating internal structure and link-level performance from end-to-end measurements is known as...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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Coding Gain Optimized Finite Impulse Response(FIR) Paraunitary(PU) Filter Banks
Dec 2009
Filter bank optimization for coding gain maximization for given input statistics has been well studied before. Principal Component Filter Banks (PCFB) have proven to be optimal whenever the...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Two Stage Narrowband Interference Mitigation for Transmitted Reference UWB Systems
Jun 2007
Transmitted Reference (TR) UWB using an Autocorrelation Receiver (AcR) provides a simple architecture and yet robust functionality against multipath propagation. NarrowBand interference (NBI),...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Comparison of Data Forwarding Mechanisms for AMI Networks
Jan 2012
Advance Metering Infrastructure (AMI) networks are often deployed under challenging and unreliable conditions. One of the issues for the transmission of data packet in these unreliable networks is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Extensions to Orthogonal Matching Pursuit for Compressed Sensing
Dec 2010
Compressed Sensing (CS) provides a set of mathematical results showing that sparse signals can be exactly reconstructed from a relatively small number of random linear measurements. A particularly...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Whitepapers
Generation of a Short-Duration Ultrawideband Chirped-Pulse Using CRLH Transmission Lines
Dec 2010
In this paper, the authors present the various design issues related to CRLH-Transmission lines for the generation of short duration Ultra-Wideband chirped-pulse. The major parameters of the CRLH...
Provided by Indian Institute of Science
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Whitepapers
Comparison of Features Extracted Using Time-Frequency and Frequency-Time Analysis Approach for Text-Independent Speaker Identification
Dec 2010
This paper compares the feature sets extracted using time-frequency analysis approach and frequency-time analysis approach for text-independent speaker identification. Mel-Frequency Cepstral...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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Whitepapers
Adaptive Push Based Data Collection Method for Online Performance Monitoring
Dec 2010
In telecommunication network management systems, pull and push are the conventional methods for data collection. The manager (also called client) entity manages a large number of network elements...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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Whitepapers
Resource Allocation for the AF Multiple Access Relay Channel With OFDMA
Mar 2012
This paper considers the resource allocation problem for a Multiple Access Relay Channel (MARC). A transmission scheme with OFDMA and Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relaying is assumed. To maximise the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Adaptive Rateless Coding With Feedback for Cooperative Relay Networks
Mar 2012
Cooperation among nodes is proposed as an effective means of combating fading and for enhancing system's overall capacity and coverage. The robustness of rateless codes makes them particularly...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Practical User Pairing and Selective Network Coding for Multi-User Bidirectional Relaying
Mar 2012
A low-complexity user pairing algorithm for the broadcast phase of the XOR-based network coding is presented. The proposed scheme achieves the same spectral efficiency as an exhaustive search...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Channel Quantization for Physical Layer Network-Coded Two-Way Relaying
Mar 2012
The design of modulation schemes for the physical layer network-coded two way relaying scenario is considered with the protocol which employs two phases: Multiple access (MA) Phase and Broadcast...
Provided by University of South Florida
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Whitepapers
Performance and Trade-offs of Opportunistic Routing in Underwater Networks
Mar 2012
Underwater acoustic channel imposes many challenges into underwater networks communication, such as high bit error, temporary losses of connectivity due to shadow zones, limited bandwidth capacity...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Impact of Infection Rate on Scaling Law of Epidemic Routing
Mar 2012
Performance modeling of epidemic routing is challenging because of the unguaranteed end-to-end connectivity and lack of global information in delay-tolerant scenarios. Existing works analyze the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Joint Power Allocation and Relay Selection in Network-Coded Multi-Unicast Systems
Mar 2012
Physical-layer Network Coding (PNC) promises a significant gain in overall network throughput for multi-user cooperative communications. In a multi-unicast scenario, one drawback associated with...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Hug: Human Gathering Point Based Routing for Opportunistic Networks
Mar 2012
In this paper, the authors study multi-copy routing schemes in opportunistic networks. Compared to single-copy protocols, the multi-copy schemes expedite the mean delivery delay while consuming...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Anomaly Detection in Network Traffic Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence
May 2012
Anomaly detection in high speed networks is well known to be a challenging problem. It requires generally the analysis of a huge amount of data with high accuracy and low complexity. In this...
Provided by University Paris 12
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Whitepapers
Resource Allocation for Minimal Downlink Delay in Two-Way OFDM Relaying With Network Coding
May 2012
This paper investigates the resource allocation problem to minimize the downlink transmission delay under power constraints for two-way relay transmission using network coding over OFDM channels,...
Provided by Tsihai
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Whitepapers
Vehicular Networking for Intelligent and Autonomous Traffic Management
May 2012
Traffic congestion has become a daily problem that most people suffer. This not only impacts the productivity of the population but also poses a safety risk. Most of the technologies for...
Provided by University of Mary Washington
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Whitepapers
Constellation Design and Mapping for Partially Coherent Correlated Channel With Coding
May 2012
Space-Time (ST) constellation design problem and bit mapping schemes for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems in correlated Rayleigh fading channels with imperfect channel estimation at...
Provided by University of Ottawa
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Whitepapers
Trellis-Based Equalization Schemes for Physical Layer Network Coding
May 2012
In this paper, the authors consider two-way relaying in a physical layer network coded system in a scenario where transmissions are subject to frequency-selective fading. Physical Layer Network...
Provided by University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila
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Whitepapers
Collaborative Downloading in VANET Using Network Coding
May 2012
Data downloading on the fly is the base of commercial data services in vehicular networks, such as office-on-wheels and entertainment-on-wheels. Due to the sparse special distribution of roadside...
Provided by University of Warwick Library
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Whitepapers
Trustworthiness of Random Network Coded Information in Untrustworthy Networks
May 2012
The authors examine the trustworthiness of random network coded information in untrustworthy networks, where the network nodes provide false data purposely or unknowingly and data transmissions...
Provided by Iowa State University
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Whitepapers
Polarity-Invariant Square Law Technology for Transmitted Reference UWB Receivers Digitizing With a Monobit ADC
May 2012
In this paper, two novel digital signal processing technologies, denoted as Polarity-Invariant Square Law (PISL) technology and forgetting factor based Successive Reference Enhancement (SRE)...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Joint Estimation of Time of Arrival and Channel Power Delay Profile for Pulse-Based UWB Systems
May 2012
Sub-Nyquist Maximum Likelihood (ML)-based Time Of Arrival (TOA) estimation methods for Ultra-WideBand (UWB) signals normally assume a priori knowledge of the UWB channel in the form of the Average...
Provided by McGill University
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White Papers
Evaluating the Suitability of Server Network Cards for Software Routers
Nov 2010
The advent of multicore CPUs has led to renewed interest in software routers built from commodity PC hardware. The typical approach to scaling network processing in these systems is to distribute...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Overlay-Friendly Native Network: A Contradiction in Terms?
Jan 2011
It is a widely accepted notion that the native layer of the current Internet has begun to stagnate in terms of the services offered. Consequently, overlay networks have gained attention as a...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
A Programmable, Generic Forwarding Element Approach for Dynamic Network Functionality
Aug 2009
Communication networks are growing exponentially, and new services and applications are being introduced unceasingly. To meet the demands of these services and applications, current network...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Case Studies
Dutch Schools Improve IT Management and Security With Operating System Upgrade
Nov 2010
In 2007, Liemers High School in Zevenaar, Didam, the Netherlands, became part of the Quadraam Education Group, which includes 12 other high schools. To improve operational efficiency, the Quadraam...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Energy Producer Fuels Productivity, Mobility With Robust Operating System
Nov 2010
With six thermoelectric and three hydroelectric power plants, Edipower is one of the largest energy producers in Italy. The company generates 7 percent of the national demand, with a throughput of...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Recursive Temporal Namespaces
Dec 2008
Recursive Temporal (RT) namespaces extend spatial namespaces such as IP with the notion of a nested time interval. RT namespace is an architectural approach to dealing with the uncertainty...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Implementation of End-to-End Abstractions in a Network Service Architecture
Dec 2008
To support the increasing diversity of systems and protocols in the Internet, modern routers offer a variety of data path processing functions. Such "Network Services" are easy to implement on a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
mPlane: An Architecture for Scalable Fault Localization
Dec 2009
Customers are increasingly demanding service-level guarantees from ISPs. ISPs use active probes for monitoring network health and use tomography approaches to localize any end-to-end problems...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Webcasts
Cheaper, Faster & Better: Monitoring z/OS in the Age of zEnterprise
Nov 2010
Life would really be great for systems programmers if only the management of z/OS could be done quickly, easily, and cost effectively. Is that just wishful thinking or could that really happen?...
Provided by BMC Software
-
White Papers
Scalability and Scheduling in an Agent Architecture
Jan 2011
For a given agent goal or objective there will be many different possible task execution paths for achieving the goal. One method for achieving the goal is to algorithmically determine the "Best"...
Provided by University of Delaware
-
White Papers
A Bayesian Network Framework for Reject Inference
Jan 2011
Most learning methods assume that the training set is drawn randomly from the population to which the learned model is to be applied. However in many applications this assumption is invalid. For...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
A Survey on Distributed Approaches to Graph Based Reputation Measures
Oct 2007
Reputation systems are indispensable for the operation of Internet mediated services, electronic markets, document ranking systems, P2P networks and Ad Hoc networks. Here the authors' survey...
Provided by ICST
-
White Papers
Large-Scale Network Simulation Scalability and an FPGA-Based Network Simulator
Dec 2008
Network algorithms are deployed on large networks, and proper algorithm evaluation is necessary to avoid large-scale outages or performance bottlenecks. However, evaluating a network algorithm in...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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White Papers
Scalability and Robustness of a Market-Based Network Resource Allocation System
Dec 2009
This paper considers issues related to scalability and robustness in designing a market-based multi-agent system that allocates bandwidth in a communications network. Specically, an empirical...
Provided by University of Southampton
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White Papers
JumboGen: Dynamic Jumbo Frame Generation for Network Performance Scalability
Jun 2007
Network line speeds have increased at a significant rate. Unfortunately, network performance has not been able to keep pace with increases in line speed. This is due to the majority of packets...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
Synchronization-Based Scalability of Complex Clustered Networks
Nov 2008
Complex clustered networks arise in biological, social, physical, and technological systems, and the synchronous dynamics on such networks have attracted recent interests. Here the authors...
Provided by American Institute of Physics
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White Papers
On the Scalability of an Efficient "Nonscalable" Key Distribution Scheme
Aug 2008
Some important requirements of key distribution schemes for many emerging applications involving resource constrained devices (For example, ad hoc and sensor networks) are low complexity; the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Sharing Networked Resources With Brokered Leases
Jan 2011
This paper presents the design and implementation of Shirako, a system for on-demand leasing of shared networked resources. Shirako is a prototype of a service-oriented architecture for resource...
Provided by Duke University
-
White Papers
Large Margin Classification in Infinite Neural Networks
Mar 2010
The authors introduce a new family of positive-definite kernels for large margin classification in Support Vector Machines (SVMs). These kernels mimic the computation in large neural networks with...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
-
White Papers
ShortCuts: Using Soft State to Improve DHT Routing
Jan 2011
Distributed hash tables are increasingly being proposed as the core substrate for content delivery applications in the Internet, such as cooperative Web caches, Web index and search, and content...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
-
White Papers
Branch Prediction With Neural Networks: Hidden Layers and Recurrent Connections
Jan 2011
As Moore's law forces modern computer microarchitectures to increasingly rely on speculation, accurately predicting branches becomes more important in keeping the pipeline full. Previous work has...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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White Papers
California Fault Lines: Understanding the Causes and Impact of Network Failures
Sep 2010
Of the major factors affecting end-to-end service availability, network component failure is perhaps the least well understood. How often do failures occur, how long do they last, what are their...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Towards Feasibility and Scalability of Text Search in Peer-to-Peer Systems
Nov 2007
This paper introduces a search engine, Dgoogle, designed for large scale P2P systems. Dgoogle is purely text-based, does not organize documents based on pre-defined keywords or based on their...
Provided by North Carolina State University
-
White Papers
Scalability in Adaptive Multi-Metric Overlays
Jan 2011
Increasing application requirements have placed heavy emphasis on building overlay networks to efficiently deliver data to multiple receivers. A key performance challenge is simultaneously...
Provided by Duke University
-
White Papers
Multiple View Scalability of Presentations Distributed to Heterogeneous Devices
May 2010
This paper presents a novel approach of distributing lecture video by capturing multiple region of interest video streams from a high definition camera and then distributing via a peer-to-peer...
Provided by University of Houston
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White Papers
On Maximum Stability With Enhanced Scalability in High-Churn DHT Deployment
Jun 2009
When applied in a commercial deployment, DHTbased P2P protocols face a dilemma: although most real-world participants are so unstable that the maintenance overhead is prohibitively high, they must...
Provided by Nanjing University
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Improving Scalability of Task Allocation and Scheduling in Large Distributed Real-Time Systems Using Shared Buffers
Jan 2011
Scheduling precedence-constrained tasks in a distributed real-time system is an NP-hard problem. As a result, the task allocation and scheduling algorithms that use these heuristics do not scale...
Provided by University of Michigan
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Scalability and Robustness in the Domain of Web-Based Tutoring
Apr 2009
Web-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems distribute content using a server based infrastructure. These systems need to be easily accessible to provide a reliable and scalable architecture for...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Scalability and Evolutionary Dynamics of Air Transportation Networks in the United States
Oct 2007
With the growing demand for air transportation and the limited ability to increase capacity at key points in the air transportation system, there are concerns that, in the future, the system will...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Efficiency and Scalability of Barrier Synchronization on NoC Based Many - Core Architectures
Oct 2008
Interconnects based on Networks-on-Chip are an appealing solution to address future microprocessor designs where, very likely, hundreds of cores will be connected on a single chip. A fundamental...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Scalability of Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring for Shipboard Applications
Jul 2009
The non-intrusive load monitor has been demonstrated - as an effective tool for evaluating and monitoring shipboard electro-mechanical systems through analysis of electrical power data. A key...
Provided by University of Rhode Island
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Improving the Scalability of Parallel Algorithms for Hyperspectral Image Analysis Using Adaptive Message Compression
Jan 2011
In previous work, the authors have reported that the scalability of parallel processing algorithms for hyperspectral image analysis is affected by the amount of data to exchanged through the...
Provided by Universidad de Extremadura
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Understanding the Scalability of Bayesian Network Inference Using Clique Tree Growth Curves
May 2010
One of the main approaches to performing computation in Bayesian Networks (BNs) is clique tree clustering and propagation. The clique tree approach consists of propagation in a clique tree...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Improving MPI-HMMER's Scalability With Parallel I/O
May 2008
As the size of biological sequence databases continues to grow, the time to search these databases has grown proportionally. This has led to many parallel implementations of common sequence...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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Supporting Better Scalability and Richer Subscription Models in Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe
Jan 2011
With the advent of Web 2.0 and the Digital Age, everyone is witnessing an unprecedented increase in the amount of information collected, and in the number of users interested in different types of...
Provided by Duke University
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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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Scalability in Constraints: Are You Comparing Apples and Oranges?
Jan 2008
This paper shows how to ensure a constant cost for the computation-unit in graphs depicting the number of (Sequential) computation-units at different problem sizes. This is needed for a meaningful...
Provided by American Association for Artificial Intelligence
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Swing: Realistic and Responsive Network Traffic Generation
Jul 2008
This paper presents Swing, a closed-loop, network-responsive traffic generator that accurately captures the packet interactions of a range of applications using a simple structural model. Starting...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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Ruminate: A Scalable Architecture for Deep Network Analysis
Dec 2010
Traditionally, Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) inspect packet header and payload data for malicious content. While each system is different, most NIDS perform limited analysis on...
Provided by George Mason University
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REMO: Resource-Aware Application State Monitoring for Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Mar 2009
To observe, analyze and control large scale distributed systems and the applications hosted on them, there is an increasing need to continuously monitor performance attributes of distributed...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
