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RSS arguesThe Handheld Classroom: Educational Implications of Mobile Computing
White Paper The second section looks at the educational issues raised by these projects, and argues that, as with any educational technology, careful consideration must be given to student needs before any hardware or software can be introduced. [23 Jul 2008]
Providing QoS Support in OSPF Based Best Effort Network
White Paper This paper argues that a better operating parameter would be one that maximizes total number of alternate paths subject to the constraint that maximum number of nodes have at least one alternate path. [17 Jul 2008]
A Routing Underlay for Overlay Networks
White Paper This paper argues that designing overlay services to independently probe the Internet - with the goal of making informed application-specific routing decisions - is an untenable strategy. Instead, it proposes a shared routing underlay that overlay... [11 Jul 2008]
Addressing Heterogeneity and Scalability in Layered Multicast Congestion Control
White Paper It argues that only a solution that includes elements of each mechanism can scale and adapt to heterogeneity in network and receiver characteristics. This paper designs SIM, a protocol that integrates three distinct mechanisms - Selective... [11 Jul 2008]
Streams, Security and Scalability
White Paper This paper argues that the Gigascope data stream management system has both the functionality and the performance to serve as the foundation for the next generation of network intrusion detection systems. [11 Jul 2008]
The Scalability Revolution: From Dead End to Open Road
White Paper It argues that in order to survive, these applications must achieve linear scalability, and that the only way to do this is to switch from the tier-based model to a new architectural approach. Application workload is growing at an increasing pace... [11 Jul 2008]
Utility Proportional Fair Bandwidth Allocation: An Optimization Oriented Approach
White Paper The paper argues that it is an application level performance measure, i.e.the utility that should be shared fairly among users. This paper presents a novel approach to the congestion control and resource allocation problem of elastic and real-time... [11 Jul 2008]
Traffic Engineering With Traditional IP Routing Protocols
White Paper The paper argues that conventional IGPs are surprisingly effective for engineering the flow of traffic in large IP networks. Traffic engineering involves adapting the routing of traffic to the network conditions, with the joint goals of good user... [11 Jul 2008]
Overcoming NAT and Firewall Connectivity Restrictions in Overlay Multicast
White Paper This paper argues that it is critical to consider connectivity restrictions because NAT and firewall hosts make up a large fraction of the endpoints, affecting proper functionality as well as performance of overlay multicast protocols. [10 Jul 2008]
Issues in the Usage of MANETs as Backup or Load-Balancing Transit Networks of the Internet
White Paper Although the MANETs capacity is currently low compared with other backbone technologies, this paper argues that MANETs is a suitable alternative for backup or load-balancing transit networks of the Internet based on its self-organized... [10 Jul 2008]
Bullet: High Bandwidth Data Dissemination Using an Overlay Mesh
White Paper For these applications, the paper argues that an overlay mesh, rather than a tree, can deliver fundamentally higher bandwidth and re-liability relative to typical tree structures. Of late, overlay networks have become an effective alter-native to... [10 Jul 2008]
Clustering Intrusion Detection Alarms to Support Root Cause Analysis
White Paper Therefore, it argues that alarms should be handled by identifying and removing the most predominant and persistent root causes. It is a well-known problem that intrusion detection systems overload their human operators by triggering thousands of... [10 Jul 2008]
Outlier Detection for Fine-Grained Load Balancing in Database Clusters
White Paper This paper argues that by allocating entire server boxes and migrating entire application stacks in cases of server overload, these solutions are too coarse-grained for many overload situations. Recent industry trends towards reducing the costs of... [10 Jul 2008]
Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection With Integrated Sampling and Filtering
White Paper This paper argues for augmenting such analysis with an additional, separately filtered stream of packets. The structure of many standalone Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) centers around a chain of analysis that begins with packets... [08 Jul 2008]
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment But there's a better way to ease the situation, argues Steve Boyle. Borrowers have moved from a mortgage feast to a famine so bad that the government has stepped in with a £50bn support package. CIO50 2008: Top 10 [03 Jul 2008]
