In this paper, the authors provide an insightful comparison between three of the most popular and widely-used Reduced Instruction Set Computing architecture (RISC) processors-MIPS, ARM and SPARC. In order for the reader to acknowledge the differences between those three architectures and fully understand the significance of each one, a comparison between the three architectures is ...

Long Time Evolution (LTE) is a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile terminal; it is based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies, increasing the capacity and speed using a different radio interface together with core network improvement. This paper takes a look at two of the most common radio propagation models ...

Fiber optic systems are important telecommunication infrastructure for world-wide broadband networks. Wide bandwidth signal transmission with low delay is a key requirement in present day applications. Optical fibers provide enormous and unsurpassed transmission bandwidth with negligible latency, and are now the transmission medium of choice for long distance and high data rate transmission in telecommunication ...

Big data integration process faced structural heterogeneity and semantic heterogeneity problems. Ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization, which is the core of semantic web technologies that can be used to describe the semantics of the metadata. This paper builds a big data model based on ontology by exploiting semantic web technology, and propose ...

In this paper, the authors present a metaheuristic algorithm that is inspired by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The algorithm maintains a set of intercommunicating particle clusters and equips each particle with a specialized local search function. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm, they analyze its ability to solve Mastermind codes and compare its performance ...

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is crucial in desktop or web application development. Mobile applications are being developed for deployment in smart phones. Looking at the rising need of mobile applications and the associated development complexity, it is imperative to have a dedicated framework lifecycle for mobile application – Mobile Application Development Life Cycle (MADLC). ...

Air freight is an important part of the global supply chain. In particular, various high-value electronic products need to be transported efficiently by air freight. Currently, many air freight forwarders still rely on manual operations to process air cargo. These manual operations may affect target service levels due to handling delays and human errors and ...

With the developments in the Information Technology and improvements in the communication channels, fraud is spreading all over the world, resulting in huge financial losses. Though fraud prevention mechanisms such as CHIP&PIN are developed, these mechanisms do not prevent the most common fraud types such as fraudulent credit card usages over virtual POS terminals or ...

Dense sub-graphs of Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) graphs are assumed to be potential functional modules and play an important role in inferring the functional behavior of proteins. PPI graphs are known to be scale free, and this property makes the process of isolation of dense sub-graphs very hard. This paper describes a new graph theoretic clustering ...

Information and Communication (ICT) Technology related projects, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects have a high failure rate. Planned and systematically adopted risk management procedure is crucial to keep projects on time and within budget with all requirements fulfilled. In this paper, the authors have analyzed the critical risks of ERP projects through the ...