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Vehicle-Driver Communication Using <endeca_term>Off-The-Shelf</endeca_term> Transceivers

Vehicle-Driver Communication Using Off-The-Shelf Transceivers

...energy efficient bidirectional longer range communication. In this paper, the authors investigate off-the-shelf transceivers in terms of their usability for bidirectional longer range... Read more

3 November, 2010
A Unified Perspective on Parity-And Syndrome-Based Binary Data Compression Using <endeca_term>Off-the-Shelf</endeca_term> Turbo Codecs

A Unified Perspective on Parity-And Syndrome-Based Binary Data Compression Using Off-the-Shelf Turbo Codecs

The authors consider the problem of compressing memoryless binary data with or without side information at the decoder.... Read more

2 August, 2010
HP Elitebook 8460p

HP Elitebook 8460p

...but the matte screen is superb. We also appreciate the range of off-the-shelf configurations, and the high-quality audio subsystem Read more

8 September, 2011 by Sandra Vogel

MIT develops smartphone clip-on to detect cataracts

...group director Ramesh Raskar and colleagues, the Catra system is made of off-the-shelf components. Users peer through an eyepiece that slides onto a... Read more

6 July, 2011 by Tim Hornyak
GenProg: A Generic Method for Automatic Software Repair

GenProg: A Generic Method for Automatic Software Repair

This paper describes GenProg, an automated method for repairing defects in off-the-shelf, legacy programs without formal specifications, program annotations, or special coding... Read more

1 February, 2012
Efficacious Distributed Arbitrary Node Duplication Attacks in Wireless Networks

Efficacious Distributed Arbitrary Node Duplication Attacks in Wireless Networks

Due to the off-the-shelf hardware components in unshielded network, nodes leave them vulnerable to... Read more

31 January, 2012
Evaluation and Selection COTS Software Process: The State of the Art

Evaluation and Selection COTS Software Process: The State of the Art

In the recent years, the Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products are being increasingly used in the world of... Read more

5 January, 2012
Security Evaluation and Hardening of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)

Security Evaluation and Hardening of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)

...and Open Source Software (FOSS) has emerged as an alternative to Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software. Now, FOSS is perceived as a viable long... Read more

10 December, 2010
Impact of CPU-Bound Processes on IP Forwarding of Linux and Windows XP

Impact of CPU-Bound Processes on IP Forwarding of Linux and Windows XP

These days, Commodity-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware and software are used to build high-end... Read more

14 October, 2010
A Simulation Study of IEEE 802.11 With Optimal Rate Control in Multi-Hop Topologies

A Simulation Study of IEEE 802.11 With Optimal Rate Control in Multi-Hop Topologies

...scheduling scheme to build wireless multi-hop networks is CSMA-CA as off-the shelf IEEE 802.11 radios can be used to easily and... Read more

12 July, 2010
Energy-Accuracy Trade-Offs in Querying Sensor Data for Continuous Sensing Mobile Systems

Energy-Accuracy Trade-Offs in Querying Sensor Data for Continuous Sensing Mobile Systems

A large number of context-inference applications run on off-the-shelf smart-phones and infer context from the data acquired by... Read more

5 July, 2010
Golden Cross Increases Competitiveness and Productivity With Automation and Process Efficiency

Golden Cross Increases Competitiveness and Productivity With Automation and Process Efficiency

...Cross Assistencia Internacional de Saude Ltda wanted to deploy a standardized commercial off-the-shelf Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to allow the organization's... Read more

1 July, 2010
Windows Server 8 Beta

Windows Server 8 Beta

Private clouds are the main focus of Windows Server 8, which is now available as a public beta. However, there's something in it for everyone from the smallest home office to the largest international company. Read more

5 March, 2012 by Simon Bisson

CloudFlare: How we got caught in LulzSec-CIA crossfire

Web resilience company CloudFlare has given details of how it was 'caught in the crossfire' between US intelligence agencies, hackers and LulzSec during the hacking group's summer 2011 campaign Read more

1 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Nasa's test planes in pictures

Nasa's test planes in pictures

...a hangar at Nasa's Dryden Flight Research Center. The project used off-the-shelf technology in order to keep costs down. For instance, Nasa... Read more

20 May, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings

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