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Data-Driven Scenario Test Generation for Information Systems
Aug 2011
This paper is aimed on the data-driven scenario testing process. The first part of this paper starts with the general introduction into software testing. After that scenario testing is presented...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering (IJCTE)
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A Novel Approach for Deriving Test Scenarios and Test Cases From Events
Jun 2012
Safety critical systems, real time systems, and event-based systems have a complex set of events and their own interdependency, which makes them difficult to test ma Safety critic Safety critical...
Provided by KIPS
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Expressive Exceptions for Safe Pervasive Spaces
Jun 2012
Uncertainty and dynamism surrounding pervasive systems require new and sophisticated approaches to defining, detecting, and handling complex exceptions. This is because the possible erroneous...
Provided by KIPS
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Supporting Java Components in the SID Simulation System
Mar 2012
Embedded products are becoming richer in features. Simulation tools facilitate low-costs and the efficient development of embedded systems. SID is an open source simulation software that includes...
Provided by KIPS
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Error Probability of RS Code Over Wireless Channel
Nov 2011
Reed-Solomon codes are an important class of error correcting codes used in many applications related to communications and digital storage. The fundamental operations in Reed-Solomon encoding and...
Provided by Serials Publiations
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Case Studies
Patti Engineering Case Study: Ancor
Feb 2009
For 18 years every night, Troy, Michigan-based Ancor had been printing all of Ford Motor Company's vehicle window label packages, matching Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) and then hand...
Provided by Patti Engineering
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Motorola Helps Wumart Group Grow the Value of Its Trusted Brand in China's Expanding Retail Industry
May 2009
One of China's leading retail chains, Wumart is to China what Walmart is to America. Wumart operates more than 352 retail outlets, 269 convenience stores and 83 hypermarkets. The challenge was...
Provided by Motorola
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Hybrid ARQ Based on Rateless Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks
May 2009
This paper shows an incremental redundancy Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) scheme, based on rateless coding, for possible application to a distributed wireless network. The proposed...
Provided by Universita degli Studi di Pavia
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Distributed Neighborhood Admission Code Assignment for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Jan 2009
CDMA has proven to be a superior technology for wireless communication in cellular environments. However, it has not been fully exploited in ad hoc networks; several key challenges have to be...
Provided by State University of New York
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Leveraging the Model Driven Development and Software Product Line Engineering Synergy for Success
Jul 2009
This report focuses on one of these integrations, the Rational Rhapsody/BigLever Software Gears Bridge. The Rational Rhapsody/Gears Bridge extends the abstraction, comprehension and communication...
Provided by IBM
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Systems and Software Product Line Engineering with SysML, UML and the Rational Rhapsody/ Gears Bridge
Jul 2009
One of the great challenges and opportunities in systems and software delivery today is Product Line Engineering - creating, evolving and maintaining a portfolio of closely related products with...
Provided by IBM
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Multi Codec Implementation Guideline for Bluetooth AV Profile
Mar 2009
The number of devices that play music using Bluetooth wireless technology has been increasing recently. This is especially true for audio players, mobile phones, and wireless headphones. Bluetooth...
Provided by MCPC
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A Framework for Detecting Bluetooth Mobile Worms
Apr 2009
Bluetooth is an industrial standard for wireless specification for wireless Personal Area Network (PAN). In recent years, Bluetooth technology has become a standard in mobile devices such as cell...
Provided by Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Modeling Autonomous Mobile System With an Agent Oriented Approach
Sep 2009
This paper focuses on the design of control architecture, via Internet, of a mobile system. The remote control extends the sensorimotor capacities and the possibilities of actions of a human being...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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Performance Analysis of Improved Cache Invalidation Scheme in Mobile Computing Environment
Oct 2009
Improved data processing capabilities and increased data storage capacity of mobile devices facilitate on-line internet transaction processing. When number of mobile clients involve in transaction...
Provided by Akshaya College of Engineering and Technology
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Integration Technologies for Primavera Solutions
Jun 2009
Companies purchasing software solutions face more technical considerations than ever. Today's complex business processes connect people with information both inside and outside traditional...
Provided by Oracle
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Ajax: For Graphics-Intensive Web Applications
Dec 2009
Ajax (which stands for asynchronous JavaScript and XHTML) is not a technology per se, but rather a design approach for Web applications. Ajax improves the user's Web application experience while...
Provided by IBM
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On the Convergence of MDL Density Estimation
Jan 2009
This paper presents a general information exponential inequality that measures the statistical complexity of some deterministic and randomized density estimators. Using this inequality, one is...
Provided by IBM
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Sentara Healthcare optimizes the health of critical technology
Dec 2009
To effectively serve the 2 million residents that turn to them for healthcare services, Sentara Healthcare must coordinate operations across some 112 separate facilities in Virginia and North...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Consultants Migrate 950,000 Lines of Visual Basic Code to .NET Framework in Nine Months
Jul 2009
SIS provides information technology products and services to medium-sized and large companies in Austria and Germany. The company has 140 employees and is based in Vienna, Austria. SIS had to help...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Tools Company Integrates With Visual Studio to Make PHP Developers More Productive
Sep 2009
Jcx.Software, a development tools company, has three employees and is based in Miami, Florida. Jcx.Software was formed to provide a better set of tools for the development of PHP applications....
Provided by Microsoft
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Visual Studio Shell Helps Start-Up Speed Delivery of Tool for Building Diagnostic Applications
Jul 2009
Emotive provides a software tool for the rapid development of automotive diagnostic applications. The company was founded in 2008, has four employees, and is based in Stuttgart, Germany. Emotive...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Israel-Based Startup Changes the Game for Development of Web Applications
Aug 2009
Gizmox, a development tools company, has 14 employees and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Gizmox saw the need for a set of enterprise-ready tools that married the developer experience of desktop...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Tools Company Uses Visual Studio Shell to Bring Power of .NET Framework to Delphi Developers
Jun 2009
Off late, with growing market demand for the ability to build applications based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 using the Delphi language, the company decided the time was right to deliver...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Numerical Library Provider Realizes Major Performance Gains by Parallelizing Its Code
Dec 2009
Visual Numerics needed a way to efficiently parallelize its C# numerical library software - and thus realized the performance gains made possible by today's multicore processors. The company...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Northern Collaborative Technologies Embraces Microsoft Solution
Nov 2009
Andrew Pollack, a well-known advocate and expert whose articles and speeches are highly regarded in the Lotus Notes community, spent more than 18 years offering primarily IBM solutions through his...
Provided by Microsoft
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Energy Efficient Reliable Multi-Path Routing Using Network Coding for Sensor Network
Jan 2009
With the advantage from network coding, the packets are encoded at source and intermediate nodes respectively, and the sink node obtains the data by decoding. Even if partial packets are lost,...
Provided by Nanjing University
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Adaptive Threshold Determining Method for Statistical Filtering Scheme in Sensor Networks
Jul 2008
Many sensor network applications are dependent on the secure operation of networks, and will have serious outcome if the network is disrupted or injured. Bogus reports can be injected through the...
Provided by Sungkyunkwan University
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Review of J2ME and J2ME-Based Mobile Applications
Mar 2008
The wireless revolution has transformed mobile communication from only voice-oriented communication with relatively static, hard-coded functionality into extensible, Internet-enabled communication...
Provided by Victoria University
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: Comparative Windows Code Protection Technologies, Strengths, and Weaknesses (Level 200)
Dec 2009
As a developer, one not only have to consider writing great applications with broad appeal, but one also needs to consider how to protect applications so that they are not pirated or stolen by...
Provided by Microsoft
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MSDN Webcast: Lighting Up the New Visual Studio 2010 Editor With Rich Extensions (Level 200)
Dec 2009
While many of them may know that Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 comes with a new extensible editor based on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), does one know why one should care? The presenter...
Provided by Microsoft
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MSDN Webcast: Got Memory Leaks? Find Errors Using Intel Parallel Studio (Level 300)
Dec 2009
Discover how easy it is to detect challenging memory errors by taking advantage of the power of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Intel Parallel Studio. Intel Parallel Studio is an add-in to Visual...
Provided by Microsoft
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Where Is the Debugger for My Software-Defined Network?
Aug 2012
The behavior of a Software-Defined Network is controlled by programs, which like all software, will have bugs - but this programmatic control also enables new ways to debug networks. This paper...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Generalized Alias Analysis on a Basis for Programming Tools
Jul 2008
Tools for automatic program analysis promise to improve programmer productivity by searching and summarizing large bodies of code. However, the phenomenon of aliasing - different names being used...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Soft-Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes Using Successive Error-and-Ersure Decoding
Oct 2008
The authors propose a soft-decision decoding algorithm of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes using successive error-and-erasure decoding. Extensive simulations are conducted to show the possible performance...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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An Improved Tomlinson-Harashima Precoder Reducing Transmission Power
Oct 2008
Tomlinson-Harashima Precoder (THP) is an efficient interference pre-canceler, however, the transmission power is increased over the symbol power due to the modulo operation. In this paper, the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Performance and Design of an Impulse Noise Detector for OFDM Systems With Reed-Solomon Erasure-Decoding
Oct 2008
The authors develop an analytical framework to evaluate the probability-of-miss and probability-of-false-alarm performance of an Impulse Noise (IN) detection algorithm for Orthogonal...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Sufficient-Statistics Based Multiple Access Over Wireless Fading Channels
Oct 2008
In this paper, the authors study a communication scheme in which nodes transmit sufficient statistics of their observations over non-orthogonal medium access channels for distributed estimation....
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Configuring and Troubleshooting VoIP Monitoring
Mar 2009
Cisco software products for IP contact centers have the ability to silently monitor and record calls between contact center agents and customers. The configuration of various network components...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Climbing Mount Reliability
Feb 2009
There is incessant pressure to supply reliable systems at reduced cost and increased profitability. Object-oriented development has also made it easier to develop components iteratively in...
Provided by nFocus
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Wing+ Web-Application Development Framework
Nov 2011
Nowadays, web development has been expanded greatly, not only for ordinary reasons, but also for enterprise and other important purposes. So it's obvious that there would be some challenges and...
Provided by University of Iowa
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Reducing Papr of OFDM Based Wireless Systems Using Companding with Convolutional Codes
Nov 2011
OFDM is a promising broadband technique. However, the implementation disadvantage of OFDM is Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) which outweighs all the potential benefits of OFDM. In this paper, a...
Provided by Banasthali University
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Nimble@ITCEcnogrid Vs Alchemi.NET: A Performance Comparison
Nov 2011
The present paper includes the development of a novel toolkit namely Nimble@ITCEcnoGrid for calculating the pi() value up to 120 decimal places after decimal. Alchemi.NET is the other popular...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Distributed Asynchronous Game Theoretic Solutions for Precoding Strategies in Multiuser MIMO Systems
Jul 2012
In this paper, the authors proposed and illustrated a distributed low-complex algorithm for pre-coding strategy selection in a Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) wireless system...
Provided by Huazhong University of Science & Technology
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Applying Object Oriented Strategy to Model a Tourist Administration Structure for Secured Databases
Apr 2012
This paper examines the relationship between transport, tourism and the experiences of those travelling for touristic purposes. For over 20 years, it has been acknowledged that transport serves a...
Provided by IJART
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A Space-Time Coding Scheme for RFID MIMO Systems
Oct 2012
This paper discusses the Space-Time Coding (STC) problem for RFID MIMO systems. A mathematical model for this kind of system is developed from the viewpoint of signal processing, which makes it...
Provided by EURASIP
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Low Complexity Interference Alignment Algorithms for Desired Signal Power Maximization Problem of MIMO Channels
Jul 2012
In this paper, the authors investigate the Interference Alignment (IA) solution for a K-user MIMO interference channel. Proper users' precoders and decoders are designed through a desired signal...
Provided by EURASIP
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Non-Redundant and Redundant Post Coding in OFDM Systems
Nov 2007
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) provides a viable solution to communicate over frequency selective fading channels by converting them to an equivalent collection of flat fading...
Provided by University of Minho
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Design and Analysis of Post-Coded OFDM Systems
Dec 2008
This paper discusses the design and analysis of Post Coded OFDM (PC-OFDM) systems. Coded or precoded OFDM systems are generally employed to overcome the symbol recovery problem in uncoded OFDM...
Provided by University of Minho
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Lowcomplexity Post-Coded OFDM Communication System: Design and Performance Analysis
Nov 2007
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) provides a viable solution to communicate over frequency selective fading channels. However, in the presence of frequency nulls in the channel...
Provided by University of Minho
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On Ideal Lattices and Learning with Errors Over Rings
Apr 2012
The "Learning With Errors" (LWE) problem is to distinguish random linear equations, which have been perturbed by a small amount of noise, from truly uniform ones. The problem has been shown to be...
Provided by Tekyz Inc.
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Compilation Techniques for Efficient Encrypted Computation
May 2012
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) techniques are capable of performing encrypted computation on Boolean circuits, i.e., the user specifies encrypted inputs to the program, and the server computes...
Provided by International Association for Cryptologic Research
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Evaluation of Efficient CSI Based Channel Feedback Techniques for Adaptive MIMO-OFDM Systems
Aug 2012
This paper explores the implementation of adaptive coding and modulation schemes for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) feedback systems....
Provided by World Academic Union
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A Robust Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation Algorithm in Burst Mode Multicarrier CDMA based Ad Hoc Networks
Dec 2012
The future wireless communication systems demand very high data rates, anti-jamming ability and multiuser support. People want large amount of data to be continuously accessible in their personal...
Provided by International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security
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Constructing Vectorial Boolean Functions with High Algebraic Immunity Based on Group Decomposition
Jun 2012
Boolean functions play a very critical role in symmetric cryptographic systems. There are many criteria for a Boolean function to be a so-called "Good" function, such as balancedness, high...
Provided by Peking Duck Software
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Kineograph: Taking the Pulse of a Fast-Changing and Connected World
Apr 2012
Kineograph is a distributed system that takes a stream of incoming data to construct a continuously changing graph, which captures the relationships that exist in the data feed. As a computing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Characterizing and Improving the Use of Demand-Fetched Caches in GPUs
Jun 2012
Initially introduced as special-purpose accelerators for games and graphics code, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have emerged as widely-used high-performance parallel computing platforms. GPUs...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Multiuser BER Analysis Of CS-QCSK Modulation Scheme in a Cellular System
Dec 2012
In recent years, chaotic communication is a hot research topic and it suits better for the emerging wireless networks because of its excellent features. Different chaos based modulation schemes...
Provided by AIRCC
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Multilayer Perceptron Guided Key Generation Through Mutation With Recursive Replacement in Wireless Communication (MLPKG)
Jul 2012
In this paper, a multilayer perceptron guided key generation for encryption/decryption (MLPKG) has been proposed through recursive replacement using mutated character code generation for wireless...
Provided by AIRCC
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Jamming Detection and Mitigation in Wireless Broadcast Networks
Nov 2012
Wireless communication systems are often susceptible to the jamming attack where adversaries attempt to overpower transmitted signals by injecting a high level of noise. Jamming is difficult to...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Design and Implementation of FPGA Based MIMO Decoder in Wireless Receiver
Dec 2012
This paper address the implementation of Multi-Input-Multi-Output (MIMO) Decoder using FPGAs embedded in a prototype of Wireless Communication receiver. The task of the MIMO decoder is to...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Energy Efficiency Analysis of Adaptive Error Correction in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jul 2012
In this paper, the authors develop an analytical energy efficiency model using Adaptive Error Correction Code (AECC) in wireless sensor networks in fading environments. To adapt energy efficiency...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Reduction Techniques of Peak-to-Average Power Ratio in MCCDMA Systems
Dec 2012
The high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) is one of the main disadvantages of Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MCCDMA) system. To reduce the PAPR of multi-carrier CDMA signals, a lot...
Provided by Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES)
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Functional Encryption for Regular Languages
May 2012
The authors provide a functional encryption system that supports functionality for regular languages. In their system a secret key is associated with a Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) M. A...
Provided by University of Texas at Arlington
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The Arithmetic Codex
Nov 2012
The authors introduce the notion of an arithmetic codex, or codex for short. Codices encompass several well-established notions from cryptography (various types of arithmetic secret sharing...
Provided by Nanyang Technological University
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Performance Enhancement of Wireless Communication Systems using Transmit and Receive Diversity
Aug 2010
In this paper, the authors describe the concatenation of Turbo/Convolutional codes with transmit and receive diversity schemes by using Space-Time Block Code. It is shown that, by using two...
Provided by AICIT
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LDPC Code based Varying Data Rate Communication Systems with Improved OFDM-MIMO Technology
Jul 2012
The rapid evolution of global mobile communication demands high data rate transmission via satellites, which in turn requires spectrally efficient modulation technique and power efficient...
Provided by IPA Journals
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Mobile Learning Objects Deployment and Utilization in Developing Countries
Oct 2010
The increasing ability to access Internet via mobile devices means that learning objects can be deployed and utilized on those devices. Increasing research attention has been accorded to the...
Provided by International Journal of Computing and ICT Research
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Busy Burst Enabled Coordinated Multipoint Network with Decentralized Control
May 2011
A novel decentralized Coordinated MultiPoint (CoMP) technique facilitated by receiver feedback is proposed. If multiple Base Stations (BSs) access the same radio resource; downlink transmissions...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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On the (Im)Plausibility of Constant-Round Public-Coin Straight-Line-Simulatable Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Sep 2012
In 2001, a breakthrough result by Barak [FOCS 2001] showed how to achieve public-coin Zero-Knowledge (ZK) arguments in constant rounds, a feature known to be impossible using black-box simulation....
Provided by Nanyang Technological University
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Constant-Overhead Secure Computation of Boolean Circuits using Preprocessing
Dec 2012
The authors present a protocol for securely computing a Boolean circuit C in presence of a dishonest and malicious majority. The protocol is unconditionally secure, assuming a preprocessing...
Provided by Aarhus University
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Commitments and Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs From Learning Parity with Noise
Sep 2012
Commitment schemes and zero-knowledge proofs are fundamental cryptographic primitives. In this paper, the authors propose a simple string commitment scheme and show efficient zero-knowledge proofs...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Punctured 8-PSK Turbo-TCM Transmissions Using Recursive Systematic Convolutional GF (2n) Encoders
Sep 2011
A new Galois Field GF (2N) structure for designing Recursive Systematic Convolutional (RSC) encoders is presented in this paper. The proposed RSC encoders are used as components of a...
Provided by EURASIP
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Radar Code Design With a Peak to Average Power Ratio Constraint: A Randomized Approximate Approach
Sep 2011
This paper considers the problem of radar waveform design in the presence of colored Gaussian disturbance under a Peak to Average power Ratio (PAR) and an energy constraint. Firstly, the authors...
Provided by EURASIP
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Rate Optimization for Incremental Redundancy and Repetition Coding in Relay Networks
Sep 2011
The deployment of relay nodes is a viable solution to fulfill the demands of high throughput and ubiquitous access for future mobile radio communications. A relay can cooperate by transmitting...
Provided by EURASIP
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Leakage Squeezing of Order Two
Oct 2012
In masking schemes, leakage squeezing is the study of the optimal shares representation, that maximizes the resistance order against high-order side-channel attacks. Squeezing the leakage of...
Provided by University of Paris
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Cryptanalysis of the OKH Authenticated Encryption Scheme
Nov 2012
Authenticated Encryption (AE) schemes achieve the security functions of message authentication codes and that of encryption schemes at the same time, i.e. authenticity and privacy. Simply...
Provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Robust Video Watermarking Using Maximum Likelihood Decoder
Sep 2011
In this paper, a robust multiplicative video watermarking scheme is presented. The authors segment the video signal into 3-D blocks like cubes, and then apply 3-D wavelet transform to each block....
Provided by EURASIP
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Simple Models for Power Optimization Across Transmission, Equalization and Decoding
Sep 2011
This paper provides simplistic models for optimization over transmit, equalization, and decoding power in a communication system for a given attainable rate, bandwidth, error probability, and the...
Provided by EURASIP
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Simplified Robust Fixed-Complexity Sphere Decoder
Sep 2011
A Simplified Robust Fixed-complexity Sphere Decoder (SRFSD) is proposed in this paper. SRFSD reduces the complexity of Robust Fixed complexity Sphere Decoder (RFSD) by choosing a detection order...
Provided by EURASIP
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SAS Code Validation: L.E.T.O Method
Mar 2010
Coders write abundant amounts of SAS code for ad hoc analysis. This code is not usually intended for use in a full scale production system, but it is still critical that it be validated....
Provided by SAS Institute
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Flex Your SAS Muscle
Apr 2010
This paper explains how to integrate the power of SAS software with the rich and interactive environment provided by Adobe Flex. SAS 9.2 enables one to easily deploy SAS Stored Processes as...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Taming the Herd: Wrangling Unruly Text Files in SAS
Mar 2010
It may come to pass that a SAS programmer is asked to make simple modifications to a set of plain text files thereby producing a new set of plain text files. At first, this may seem like an...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Working With SAS Date and Time Functions: Foundations & Fundamentals
Mar 2010
Many new users are confused about how to work with variables (columns) representing dates and time in the SAS System. This paper provides an explanation of how to work with date and time...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Establishing Consistent Programming for Pharmaceutical Safety Summarizations Using a DOW Loop
Mar 2010
Three types of data collected during an early stage clinical trial study to assess safety are laboratory tests, electrocardiogram parameters, and vital signs. Simple summary statistics of the...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Transposing Data Using PROC SUMMARY'S IDGROUP Option
Mar 2010
When clinical data are stored with multiple observations per subject, a common task is to rearrange the data so there is only one observation per subject. That single observation contains all or...
Provided by UAlbany School of Public Health
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ZIP Code 411: Decoding SASHELP.ZIPCODE and Other SAS Maps Online Mysteries
Mar 2010
SAS provides a very useful file called SASHELP.ZIPCODE. This file is relatively unknown and under-utilized. This paper explores current and potential uses of the file, as well as how to update the...
Provided by Abt Associates
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SAS Style Templates: Always in Fashion
Mar 2010
The syntax for style templates changed in SAS 9.2 and became much easier to use. With the new CLASS statement, there is no need to debate the use of the STYLE statement versus the now defunct...
Provided by SAS Institute
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A VB.NET Utility to Transfer Multiple Data Files Between SAS and Microsoft Access/Excel by Automatically Generating SAS Import/Export Statements
Apr 2010
A VB.NET utility was developed to automate the process of converting data files between SAS and Microsoft Access or Microsoft Excel using point-and-click in the Windows environment. It saves time...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Next Generation DATA _NULL_ Report Writing Using ODS OO Features: A Powerful Tool to Create Custom Tables
Mar 2010
The ODS report writing interface feature is in preproduction for SAS 9.1.3 and later, presenting an Object-Oriented (OO) language fully integrating all capabilities of ODS and taking advantage of...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Challenge! Reading Mainframe Hex Delimited Flat File Where Each Line Has Different Layout
Apr 2010
This paper illustrates how to design an appropriate input program to handle a complex file layout using data collected from pharmacy and health insurance information about individuals. Various...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Data Simulation for Piloting Clinical Trials Display Programs
Mar 2010
In a fast-paced clinical trials computing environment, programmers often need to create tables, listings, and figures within a limited time span. In these cases, available working data sets are...
Provided by Rho
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So Many Variables: Too Many Labels Moving Labels From One Variable to Another
Mar 2010
So a person has one hundred plus variables to copy and recode and one wants their original variable labels to transfer with them. Good luck with that! SAS will let the person do all kinds of...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Faster Results by Multi-Threading Data Steps
Apr 2010
Many SAS users run programs on systems with multiple processors. Starting with SAS9, certain intensive SAS procedures take can advantage of these multiple processors to reduce run-time, and make...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Using AJAX and SAS Stored Processes to Create Dynamic Search-Suggest Functionality
Mar 2010
Almost everyone is familiar with the search-suggest functionality that is offered by search engines and other Web applications (for example, a user begins typing into a text box on a Web page and...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Listening to the Twitter Conversation
Mar 2010
Twitter, with its short texts and large number of users, zero cost of entry, and open API, has become a social media phenomenon providing an inexpensive way to connect with customers, increase...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Generating Reports With DDE and VBA, the Concept - Alternative to ODS to Produce Complex Reports
Mar 2010
As a SAS programmer, one might have experience of spending hours modifying the thickness/colors of a bar chart, fitting an image into the corner of the page, or putting multiple charts/tables side...
Provided by HAVI Group
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Yes, Proc SQL Is Great, But I Love Data Step Programming, What's a SAS User to Do?
Mar 2010
Like many long-standing SAS users and Data Step programmers, the author avoided learning Proc SQL for many years. After making the decision to take the plunge and add Proc SQL to the authors...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Two Practical Approaches to Add Special Characters to Axis Labels in SAS/Graph Output in RTF
Mar 2010
There are several methods (such as the BYTE function, Hexadecimal code, and Greek character symbols with/without the ODS ESCAPECHAR= statement) available to produce special characters (such as...
Provided by INC Research
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Using SAS Software and Visual Basic for Application to Dynamically Manipulate SAS List Files
Mar 2010
This paper demonstrates how to apply Visual Basic for Application (VBA) procedures in the Microsoft Word to dynamically manipulate SAS output list files. In the paper, the author shall show how to...
Provided by Forest Laboratories
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The SAS Hash Object: It's Time to .find() Your Way Around
Mar 2010
Has one heard themselves or others say this when someone suggests a new technique to help solve a problem? Most of them have a set of tricks and techniques from which they draw when starting a new...
Provided by Fernwood Consulting Group
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Bridging the Gap Between the Google Analytics API and SAS
Mar 2010
Third parties which collect the data generally offer an acceptable reporting piece which provides the general public with a good sense of the how, when, where, and why. For those of them that want...
Provided by Capella University
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Make Your SAS Code Environmentally Aware
Mar 2010
SAS global macro variables and operating system environment variables contain a wealth of information that can be used to add extra power to the SAS programs. This information can be used to add...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Complex Data Combinations on Large Volumes: How to Get the Best Performance
Mar 2010
Developers are often challenged to build complex combinations of large files with a good performance. In most cases the SQL procedure is the obvious choice. However, the DATA step often provides...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Get the Scoop on the Loop: How Best to Write a Loop in the DATA Step
Mar 2010
During the execution of the DATA step processing, the DATA step works like a loop, repetitively reading the data and creating observations one at a time. The author calls this type of loop the...
Provided by City of Hope
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A Program to Automatically Compute Agreement Statistics for an Asymmetric Table
Mar 2010
Cohen's Kappa coefficient is a method for assessing the degree of agreement between two raters. In order to correctly compute agreement statistics, the table must be square and row labels must...
Provided by McGraw-Hill
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White Papers
Automate PowerPoint Slide Generation With ODS and VBScript
Mar 2010
SAS can generate nice figures and tables in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel format, but it hasn't been easy for SAS to generate Microsoft PowerPoint slides. This paper introduces a method that...
Provided by Amylin Pharmaceuticals
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White Papers
Automating Report Dates and Formats Using SAS 9 Software
Apr 2010
In many organizations, analysts manually change the SAS code that is used to run routine reports so that it uses current dates. However, analysts can use SAS date functions and formats to create...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
The Power of User Defined SAS Code in SAS Data Integration Studio
Mar 2010
Extensive use of standard SAS Data Integration Studio Transformations is often made when designing data warehouses, thereby reducing maintenance requirements and the need for user defined code....
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
From Genomes to Galaxies: 3D Graphics in JMP Scripting Language
Mar 2010
JMP Scripting Language (JSL) offers an interface to OpenGL for three-dimensional graphics. This paper presents several new examples illustrating the aesthetics and interactivity of JSL 3D...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Evolution of Formatting "On the Fly"
Mar 2010
PROC FORMAT procedure is a powerfully productive tool. It allows one to assign labels to values without having to spend time combining data sets, changing values and molding the data to take on...
Provided by U.S. Census Bureau
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White Papers
Choosing the Right Tool From Your SAS and Microsoft Excel Tool Belt
Mar 2010
There are over a dozen ways to bring the data into SAS from Microsoft Excel or to push it out from SAS to Excel. Some are simple wizards, and others are more complex programming techniques. How...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Why Aren't You Using MEMLIB?
Mar 2010
The concept of a RAM disk is simple: set aside an area of the computer's memory (RAM - Random Access Memory) to serve as a simulated hard disk. While hard drive speeds have increased tremendously...
Provided by INC Research
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White Papers
MySQL Cluster Manager: Reducing Complexity and Risk While Improving Efficiency
Apr 2010
Organizations are demanding that IT focus more on strategic initiatives and less on the day-today management of an IT environment. IT groups need to be agile and responsive to market demands by...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
Reduce CPU Usage With SMART SQL
Nov 2009
The presenter of this webcast discusses how and why to design SQL that will reduce the number of times calls are made to DB2 on z/OS. The presenter looks at how to write SMART (SQL Made to...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
PageBus 1.2 and Best Practices in Architecting and Managing Composite Ajax Applications
Jan 2010
Ajax applications enable many new and great things. This webcast provides insights to architecting, creating, and managing scalable Ajax applications using TIBCO PageBus, an open source message...
Provided by TIBCO Software
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: BenkoTips Live and on Demand: Visual Studio 2010 Debugging and Intellitrace (Level 200)
Apr 2010
When the unexpected happens, how does one figure out what went wrong and recovers gracefully? In this webcast, the presenter takes a look at the debugging features and capabilities of Microsoft...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Price Comparison Site Increases Revenue Opportunities With Automated Development Tools
Apr 2010
Confused.com is a price comparison Web site that depends on the ability of its development team to quickly turn market opportunities into consumer products. In 2009, the team evaluated the...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Flexible HTML Reporting Using Advanced Macro Programming and TableEditor Tagset
Mar 2010
SAS ODS techniques provide the ability to create HTML outputs and help minimize manual work. However, if one still misses dynamic and interactive Excel functionalities, the author has a solution!...
Provided by Wyndham Worldwide
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White Papers
Verifying Dereference Safety Via Expanding-Scope Analysis
Jul 2008
This paper addresses the challenging problem of verifying the safety of pointer dereferences in real Java programs. The paper provides an automatic approach to this problem based on a sound...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
