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Scalability of Linux Event-Dispatch Mechanisms
White Papers In this paper, the authors discuss some of the event-dispatch mechanisms used by Internet servers to handle the network I/O generated by these request loads. The authors focus on the mechanisms supported by the Linux kernel, and measure their...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
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 8, 2006, 0:01]
Experimental Evaluation of Application Performance With 802.11 PHY Rate Adaptation Mechanisms in Diverse Environments
White Papers This paper examines the impact of physical layer rate adaptation mechanisms on the performance of real applications over 802.11 wireless links in diverse channel environments. The paper considers two different and well known 802.11 rate adaptation...
[August 1, 2007, 1:00]
Creating C# Wrappers for Intel Integrated Performance Primitives Using Microsoft .NET Interoperability Mechanisms
White Papers This paper provides information on Microsoft .NET framework interoperability mechanisms to create C# wrapper functions for using Intel IPP C-style libraries from a .NET framework application using the C# language.
[June 3, 2008, 6:06]
Linking Project-Based Mechanisms With Domestic Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes
White Papers This paper focuses on Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading and project-based mechanisms for GHG emission reduction which are two possible policy instruments that countries can use to address climate change.
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
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 14, 2005, 2:00]
Analyzing and Improving a BitTorrent Network's Performance Mechanisms
White Papers The goal is to deconstruct the system and evaluate the impact of its core mechanisms, both individually and in combination, on overall system performance under a variety of workloads. In recent years, BitTorrent has emerged as a very scalable peer...
[May 24, 2007, 1:00]
Comparison of Two Sampling-Based Data Collection Mechanisms for Intrusion Detection System
White Papers The implementation of packets sampling is provided, and efficiencies of these data collection mechanisms for IDS are compared in this paper. Data collection mechanism is a crucial factor for the performance of Intrusion Detection System (IDS).
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
Bio-Inspired Mechanisms for Efficient and Adaptive Network Security
White Papers Off late, many efforts have been made in developing algorithms and methodologies for building efficient network security mechanisms. Network security mechanisms are composed of several components. The primary requirements are efficiency...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Use SLAs in a Web Services Context, Part 1: Guarantee Your Web Service With a SLA - Introduction, Architecture, and Testing Mechanisms
White Papers Many businesses are demanding Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) that guarantee the reliability of the IT services they pay for. As Web services enter the mainstream, customers will be asking for SLAs that ensure their quality.
[August 23, 2006, 1:00]
Power Saving Mechanisms in the IEEE 802.16e/m
White Papers In the IEEE 802.16e WiMAX or WiBro, power saving is one of the important issues for the battery-powered Mobile Stations due to the mobility. The IEEE 802.16e standard provides different Power Saving Classes (PSCs) depending on parameters sets...
[April 22, 2009, 1:24]
Juniper Networks Advanced Insight Solutions (AIS) Security Overview: Security Controls, Mechanisms, and Techniques Applied to AIS Components and Infrastructure That Provide Protection to the Data
White Papers Juniper Networks Advanced Insight Solutions (AIS) offers significant benefits to customers by automating both reactive and proactive technical support processes. AIS enables faster problem identification and resolution, and more effective problem...
[July 13, 2009, 1:21]
Trajectory-Based Forwarding Mechanisms for Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks
White Papers Routing in ad-hoc sensor networks is a complicated task because of many reasons. The nodes are low powered and they cannot maintain routing tables large enough for well-known routing protocols. Because of that, greedy forwarding at intermediate...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
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 31, 2007, 0:00]
Latency Evaluation of Networking Mechanisms for Game Traffic
White Papers Large improvements in computer technology allow thousands of users to concurrently interact in a virtual game. Due to this development, the body of work analyzing game traffic has grown considerably in the recent past.
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
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 21, 2007, 0:01]
On Class-Based Isolation of UDP, Short-Lived and Long-Lived TCP Flows
White Papers The congestion control mechanisms of TCP make it vulnerable in an environment where flows with different congestion sensitivity compete for scarce resources. With the increasing amount of unresponsive UDP traffic in today's Internet, new mechanisms...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
MSDN Webcast: Instrumentation, Logging, and Error Handling in ASP.NET Applications (Level 200)
White Papers Building detection and reaction mechanisms that signal errors or attack conditions into the applications empowers to diagnose and fix problems much more easily. The presenter describes how these detection and reaction mechanisms are as important as...
[April 27, 2007, 1:00]
Icann gains independence from the US
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the body that oversees some of the core mechanisms of the internet, has been granted independence from the United States government. In addition, she called for all parties to work out...
[September 30, 2009, 15:58]
Government warned over data-transfer security
News The government does not have adequate mechanisms in place to secure data transfer, according to a report prepared on behalf of the Cabinet Office. Government departmental security is in silos, and there are currently no adequate mechanisms in place...
[July 30, 2007, 14:41]
