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Combining Transport Layer And Link Layer Mechanisms For Transparent QoS Support Of IP Based Applications
White Papers The goal of this paper is to show how link level mechanisms can be enhanced by transport layer information in order to meet transport layer reliability and delay requirements within wireless scenarios.
[December 5, 2007, 23:00]
Evaluation Of Congestion Detection Mechanisms For InfiniBand Switches
White Papers In this paper, the author develops and evaluates ECN mechanisms for switches with input-buffered configuration (typical for InfiniBand), as opposed to traditional techniques that target output-buffered switches.
[January 10, 2007, 23:00]
QoS Mechanisms For The MAC Protocol Of 802.11 WLANs
White Papers The IEEE 802.11e draft standard includes new features to facilitate and promote the provision of QoS guarantees, but no specific mechanisms are defined in the protocol to avoid over saturating the medium (via CAC) or to decide how to assign the...
[June 21, 2006, 0:00]
A Comparison Between Mechanisms For Sequential Compute Resource Auctions
White Papers This paper describes simulations designed to test the relative efficiency of two different sequential auction mechanisms for allocating compute resources between users in a shared data-center. For each of two possible auction types one apply a...
[June 7, 2006, 0:00]
Integrating Seismic Events Focal Mechanisms With Image Services In Kepler
White Papers GEON is building a mechanism for integration and visualization of seismic events and their related fault orientations - referred by seismologists as focal mechanisms (or "Beach balls") with other image (map) services using a Service Oriented...
[March 21, 2007, 23:00]
Understanding 802.11e Contention-Based Prioritization Mechanisms And Their Coexistence With Legacy 802.11 Stations
White Papers The IEEE 802.11e task group has reached a stable consensus on two basic contention-based priority mechanisms to promote for standardization: usage of different arbitration interframe spaces and usage of different minimum/maximum contention windows.
[February 7, 2006, 23:00]
HP-UX IPv6 Transition Mechanisms
White Papers This paper describes the transition mechanisms currently supported by HP-UX and how these mechanisms can be used to deploy IPv6 with no impact to the existing IPv4 infrastructure. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has designed IPv6, the...
[November 15, 2004, 23:00]
LDAP: Authentication Methods And Connection Level Security Mechanisms
White Papers This paper describes authentication methods and connection level security mechanisms of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). This paper also details the simple Bind authentication method including anonymous, unauthenticated, and plain...
[December 13, 2004, 23:00]
Data Collection Mechanisms For Intrusion Detection Systems
White Papers In this white paper we describe different ways of classifying data collection mechanisms for intrusion detection, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each one of them according to experiences.
[April 3, 2004, 0:00]
Inventory Service Level Agreements As Coordination Mechanisms: The Effect Of Review Periods
White Papers The authors investigate these mechanisms in a controlled laboratory. A supplier stocking goods for delivery to a retailer may face a finite-horizon service-level agreement. In this context, the service-level agreement is a commitment by a supplier...
[August 4, 2006, 0:00]
A Comparative Study Of Persistence Mechanisms For The Java Platform
White Papers Many mechanisms for managing persistent data have been proposed, some of which are now included in the standard Java platforms, e.g. This paper defines a set of criteria by which persistence mechanisms may be compared and then applies the criteria...
[August 2, 2005, 0:00]
Performance Evaluation Of The Impact Of QoS Mechanisms In An IPv6 Network For IPv6-Capable Real-Time Applications
White Papers It contains results from the tests that were performed in order to configure and evaluate the QoS mechanisms. The new version of the Internet Protocol (IP), IPv6, is a solution designed to overcome the limitations of IPv4 and fill the future needs...
[March 13, 2005, 23:00]
Privacy And E-Government: Privacy Impact Assessments And Privacy Commissioners - Two Mechanisms For Protecting Privacy To Promote Citizen Trust Online
White Papers Many countries have adopted national privacy or data protection laws. Such laws may apply to data about individuals collected by the government, to personal data in the hands of private sector businesses, or to both.
[September 1, 2005, 0:00]
TCP Symbiosis: Congestion Control Mechanisms Of TCP Based On Lotka-Volterra Competition Model
White Papers This paper proposes TCP Symbiosis, which has a robust, self-adaptive and scalable congestion control mechanism for TCP. The method is quite different from existing approaches. The paper changes the window size of a TCP connection in response to...
[December 20, 2007, 23:00]
Solaris Operating Environment Deployment Mechanisms In Replicated And High Availability Environments
White Papers This article will briefly introduce some of the latest technologies that will help in rapid Solaris Operating Environment (OE) installation or software upgrades in high availability environments.
[May 20, 2004, 0:00]
A Short Look On Power Saving Mechanisms In The Wireless LAN Standard Draft IEEE 802.11
White Papers This paper describes simulations of the power saving mechanism of the upcoming standard for wireless Local Area Networks IEEE 802.11. They were performed in order to see how typical parameters influence the performance.
[December 6, 2007, 23:00]
Dynamic Quality Adaptation Mechanisms For TCP-Friendly MPEG-4 Video Transfer
White Papers When a considerable amount of UDP traffic is injected into the Internet by distributed multimedia applications, the Internet is easily driven congested. Consequently, bandwidth available to TCP connections is oppressed and their performance...
[December 6, 2007, 23:00]
A Comparison Of Mechanisms For Improving TCP Performance Over Wireless Links
White Papers Reliable transport protocols such as TCP are tuned to perform well in traditional networks where packet losses occur mostly because of congestion. However, networks with wireless and other lossy links also suffer from significant losses due to bit...
[October 30, 2007, 23:00]
Analysis Of Bluetooth Device Discovery And Some Speedup Mechanisms
White Papers The device discovery time of Bluetooth is prohibitively long. This may significantly impact many mobile applications. This paper analyzes the frequency-matching delay of Bluetooth for both versions V1.1 and V1.2.
[August 9, 2005, 0:00]
The Performance Of Remote Display Mechanisms For Thin-Client Computing
White Papers In the last two decades, the centralized computing model of mainframe computing has shifted to the more distributed model of desktop computing. But as these personal desktop computers become ubiquitous in today's large corporate and academic...
[January 16, 2005, 23:00]
