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IGP Link Weight Assignment For Transient Link Failures
White Papers This paper examines the problem of link weight assignment for short isolated link failures, and proposes a novel Tabu Search Heuristic that takes into account such failures. Intra-domain routing in IP backbone networks relies on link-state...
[January 6, 2005, 23:00]
A Thorough Review Reveals Opportunities To Improve Printer's International Assignment Program
White Papers Sarbanes-Oxley legislation led the developer, manufacturer and supplier of printing solutions to the International Assignment Services practice. Deloitte Tax LLP was awarded the International Assignment Services (IAS) tax work of this leading...
[March 11, 2005, 23:00]
Wavelength Assignment To Minimize The Number Of SONET ADMs In WDM Rings
White Papers This problem of optimal wavelength assignment to minimize the number of SONET ADMs is NP-hard. This paper introduces an integer linear programming (ILP) formation for this problem, propose a new wavelength assignment heuristic, and evaluate the...
[October 21, 2004, 0:00]
IPv6 Address Allocation And Assignment Policy
White Papers This paper describes policies for the allocation and assignment of globally-unique Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) address space. It updates and obsoletes the existing Provisional IPv6 Policies in effect since 1999 [RIRv6-Policies].
[October 16, 2004, 0:00]
Channel Assignment
White Papers Channel Assignment problem is concerned with finding the minimum assignment of channels to communicating devices so that their communication demands are satisfied. This paper surveys variants of the channel assignment problem used to find efficient...
[August 7, 2007, 0:00]
Frequency Assignment For Multi-Cell IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
White Papers This paper focuses on interactions among access points based on their traffic loads and radio propagation and formulates the channel assignment for the 802.11 network as a 0-1 programming problem, where one version of the problem is shown to be NP...
[October 20, 2005, 0:00]
Resource Assignment For Large-Scale Computing Utilities Using Mathematical Programming
White Papers This paper describes a resource assignment problem (RAP) for a large-scale computing utility, such as an Internet data center. The problem is defined as, for a given topology of a network consisting of switches and servers with varying capabilities...
[October 6, 2004, 0:00]
Neighbor Based TDMA Slot Assignment Algorithm For WSN
White Papers This paper proposes a neighbor based TDMA (NB-TDMA) slot assignment algorithm for wireless sensor networks suitable for target-tracking kind of applications. It is observed that this method requires less number of colors/slots than slot assignment...
[October 29, 2007, 23:00]
A Distributed, Utility-Based Architecture For Task Assignment In Tactical WSNs
White Papers This paper develops architecture for task assignment in wireless sensor networks in support of tactical operations. The paper has applied the utility-based architecture framework in the design of a distributed task assignment algorithm for a simple...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Utilization And Fairness In Spectrum Assignment For Opportunistic Spectrum Access
White Papers However, a naive distributed spectrum assignment can lead to significant interference between devices. This paper examines both a centralized strategy, where a central server calculates an allocation assignment based on global knowledge, and a...
[May 31, 2007, 0:00]
An Approach To Improving Data Quality In Surveys By Applying Register Data With Limited Assignment Of Units
White Papers This paper deals with an improvement of estimators with respect to available auxiliary information from registers with limited assignment of the units. A Monte Carlo simulation study will make it possible to compare the estimators with different...
[February 5, 2007, 23:00]
Dynamic Channel Rate Assignment For Multi-Radio WLANs
White Papers However, static channel rate assignment in MRMC can lead to load imbalance across channels. This paper presents a dynamic channel rate assignment scheme for the MRMC MAC protocol. The simulation results show that dynamic channel rate assignment can...
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
Can A Foreign Assignment Help Your Career?
News Nowak worked hard, but he also lived well, which is another compelling reason for taking a foreign assignment. The question on most managers' minds is whether a foreign assignment can boost your career.
[June 20, 2002, 9:59]
Simple Wavelength Assignment Protocol
White Papers Coupling IP routers with wavelength-selective optical cross-connects supports existing Internet infrastructure in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical network. Because optical wavelength routing is transparent to IP, packets can bypass...
[October 14, 2003, 0:00]
Centralized Channel Assignment And Routing Algorithms For Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers The IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN standards allow multiple non-overlapping frequency channels to be used simultaneously to increase the aggregate bandwidth available to end-users. Such bandwidth aggregation capability is routinely used in infrastructure...
[June 30, 2006, 0:00]
Data Extraction And Label Assignment For Web Databases
White Papers Many tools have been developed to help users query, extract and integrate data from web pages generated dynamically from databases, i.e.from the Hidden Web. A key prerequisite for such tools is to obtain the schema of the attributes of the...
[January 13, 2005, 23:00]
Implementing Geographic Workflow Assignment For State And Local Government
White Papers Geography plays an essential role in assigning people to tasks in many government agencies. Who does building inspections in the Wilburton neighborhood? Who gets assigned to fix a water meter at 2815 Second Avenue?
[August 23, 2005, 0:00]
How To Effectively Set Up File And Printer Shares
News The cornerstone of a secure infrastructure is the appropriate assignment of permissions for shared folders, file systems, and printers. Here's a look at the issues involved in the assignment process. Since the assignment of permissions is primarily...
[June 27, 2003, 13:42]
Operating System Scheduling On Heterogeneous Core Systems
White Papers This paper makes a case that a thread scheduler for heterogeneous multicore systems should target three objectives: optimal performance, core assignment balance and response time fairness. Performance optimization via optimal thread-to-core...
[September 11, 2007, 0:00]
IP QoS Control White Paper
White Papers This paper proposes a QoS control architecture that designs and controls network resource assignments (including path, bandwidth and buffer assignment) in order to provide the network-wide QoS appropriate to each services requirement.
[November 28, 2006, 23:00]
