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RSS rochesterRochester Institute of Technology Improves Applications' Availability With Hosted Solution
White Paper Founded in 1829, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is an internationally recognized leader in professional and career-oriented education, enrolling more than 15,000 students in eight colleges. Rochester Institute of Technology wanted to... [18 Dec 2007]
Best Practices for Ensuring IM Compliance: What Every IT Professional Needs to Know
White Paper You will also hear how Rochester Public Utilities turned sporadic, unmanaged use of IM into a productive business tool for internal and external communications, while satisfying records management regulations. [12 Dec 2007]
The Impact of Delayed Acknowledgement on E-TCP Performance in Wireless Networks
White Paper The expansion of Internet into wireless network has been a very active area of research. One of the topics many researches focus on is the performance of TCP over wireless environment. TCP is an Internet transport protocol, which uses a cumulative... [05 Dec 2007]
Handoff Loss Detection With E-TCP
White Paper One of the problems affecting TCP performance is packet loss, which can cause significant degradation of TCP performance over wireless network. The current implementation of TCP faces a serious problem when data packets are lost as a result of... [05 Dec 2007]
TCP Performance for Future IP-Based Wireless Networks
White Paper In recent years, many extensive studies have been performed that have attempted to improve the performance of TCP for wireless networks. The common assumptions made by TCP for wired networks definitely do not hold for wireless networks. [05 Dec 2007]
mySAP E-Procurement Optimizes Ordering Processes and Enables Up to 30% Savings
White Paper At the Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG locations in Wiesloch/ Heidelberg and Rochester, N.Y. USA), employees started to order office materials and tools via Intranet. With a web-browser interface at their desks, they simply need to select the... [28 Sep 2007]
DAPR: A Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Utilizing an Application-Based Routing Cost
White Paper As wireless sensor networks continue to attract more attention, new ideas for applications are continually being developed, many of which involve consistent coverage of a given surveillance area. Recently, several protocols and architectures have... [01 Aug 2007]
On the Problem of Unbalanced Load Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper In multi-hop wireless sensor networks that are characterized by many-to-one traffic patterns, problems related to energy imbalance among sensors often appear. When each node has a fixed transmission range, the amount of traffic that sensor nodes... [01 Aug 2007]
Strategies for Mitigating the Sensor Network Hot Spot Problem
White Paper In multi-hop wireless sensor networks that are characterized by many-to-one (convergecast) traffic patterns, problems related to energy imbalance among sensors often appear. When the transmission range is fixed for nodes throughout the network, the... [01 Aug 2007]
Middleware to Support Sensor Network Applications
White Paper This paper describes different types of sensor network applications and discusses existing techniques for managing these types of networks. The paper also overviews a variety of related middleware and argues that no existing approach provides all... [01 Aug 2007]
Energy and Spatial Reuse Efficient Network Wide Real-Time Data Broadcasting in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper This paper presents NB-TRACE, which is an energy-efficient network-wide voice broadcasting architecture for mobile ad hoc networks. In the NB-TRACE architecture, the network is organized into overlapping clusters through a distributed algorithm... [01 Aug 2007]
A Taxonomy of Wireless Micro-Sensor Network Models
White Paper In future smart environments, wireless sensor networks will play a key role in sensing, collecting, and disseminating information about environmental phenomena. Sensing applications represent a new paradigm for network operation, one that has... [01 Aug 2007]
Modular Topology Control and Energy Model for Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
White Paper Networked wireless sensors in a harsh terrain typically are battery operated and, therefore, require energy efficient network protocols. In order to ease the analysis of the energy usage of proposed network protocols, this paper proposes an energy... [01 Aug 2007]
School District Builds Closer Connections With Schools, Students, Community Online
White Paper To serve a large and greatly diverse student population, the Rochester City School District (RCSD) has been progressively placing computers with Internet access in many students' homes through business and community programs. [16 Feb 2007]
Students Find SAS Certifications Valuable on Both Sides of the Table
White Paper While studying for his master's degree in applied statistics at Rochester Institute of Technology, Winters was advised by his department chair to learn SAS as a way to broaden his career opportunities. [14 Jun 2006]
