calgary
Powerful Business Intelligence for the University of Calgary: An IBM Cognos Solution
White Paper Located in northwest Calgary, the University of Calgary (U of C) campus is home to scholars in 16 faculties and 36 research institutes and centers. It needed to consolidate complex and confusing data... [01 Sep 2009]
United Way Drives Fundraising Efforts With PerformancePoint Server 2007
White Paper Through the collaboration of four offices (Calgary, Lower Mainland, Winnipeg, and lead by Toronto) the BTC oversees a variety of initiatives, including the implementation of a data warehouse. The Business Transformation... [01 Sep 2009]
Electrical Engineering Firm Migrates From Linux to a Microsoft-Based Platform
White Paper Consulting Ltd.is an engineering firm located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada specializing in the design of Electrical and Instrumentation systems for Oil and Gas installations in Western Canada. Candor Engineering deployed... [25 Jul 2009]
Calgary Co-op Expands Human Resource Solutions to Further Drive Efficiency and Transparency
White Paper Calgary Co-op wanted to leverage existing human resources and financial solution investments and to deliver on strategic vision and increased productivity of employees to drive continued profitable revenue growth. [30 May 2009]
TCP Over WiMAX: A Measurement Study
White Paper This paper present active measurement results from a commercial IEEE 802.16/WiMAX-based network, with primary focus on TCP performance. This paper compare four TCP variants, namely New Reno, Cubic, Vegas and Veno, using throughput,... [23 Apr 2009]
Multimedia Application Performance on a WiMAX Network
White Paper This paper uses experimental measurements to study the performance of multimedia applications over a commercial IEEE 802.16 WiMAX network. Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and video streaming (RealPlayer) applications are tested. [23 Apr 2009]
Outsourcing: Bye bye Chennai, g'day Brisbane
News Calgary Forget Chennai and Mumbai - the outsourcing hubs of tomorrow will be in Belfast and Brisbane. An eclectic mix of 31 cities, in countries ranging from Australia and Ireland to areas in South America and Africa,... [20 Feb 2009]
Supporting Coherence With a 3D Instant Messenger Visualization
White Paper Instant messengers have become a popular medium for providing awareness of others and supporting casual interaction. To smoothly move into and out of computer-mediated conversation, coherence is necessary not only as a means to represent... [04 Dec 2008]
An FPGA-Based Network Processor for IP Packet Compression
White Paper This paper describes the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of a reconfigurable network processor that can do on-the-fly content adaptation of IP packets for wired or wireless networks. [27 Dec 2007]
Video to Go: The Effects of Mobility on Streaming Media in a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Network
White Paper This paper experimentally examines the performance of streaming media applications over a CDMA2000 1xEVDO network. The performance of streaming in a cellular network is tested across three different levels of mobility, two applications,... [27 Dec 2007]
Characterizing the Behaviour of RealVideo Streams
White Paper Unresponsive streaming media traffic can significantly impede the performance of other networking applications and even endanger the stability of the Internet. Therefore, with increased deployment of high-bandwidth commercial streaming... [27 Dec 2007]
An Analytic Throughput Model for TCP NewReno
White Paper This paper develops a simple and accurate stochastic model for the steady-state throughput of a TCP NewReno bulk data transfer as a function of round-trip time and loss rate. The model builds upon extensive prior work on TCP Reno... [27 Dec 2007]
TCP Vegas Performance With Streaming Media
White Paper The study discussed in this paper is the use of TCP Vegas as a transport protocol for streaming media. It also considers TCP NewReno as a transport protocol for streaming media. The paper finds that: TCP is able to transport streaming... [27 Dec 2007]
Queue Management Strategies to Improve TCP Fairness in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
White Paper Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) based on the IEEE 802.11 technology have become increasingly popular and ubiquitous. The 802.11 standard allows each station in a WLAN equal opportunity to access the wireless channel, which can... [27 Dec 2007]
Observations on Round-Trip Times of TCP Connections
White Paper Knowledge about properties of network traffic can be beneficial when studying network protocols. It enables realistic models of network traffic to be created and evaluations of current protocols to take place. [27 Dec 2007]