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White Paper This paper describes a novel system developed by the University of Cincinnati which enables on-campus location-based services for conventional voice calls from cell phones by recognizing and locating the Wi-Fi signal... [12 Nov 2009]
The T-Mobile HotSpot@Home UMA Service on a University or Enterprise WLAN
White Paper Off late the features of dual-mode devices (cellular voice and data clients with additional Wi-Fi radios) have grown increasingly sophisticated. The burgeoning capabilities of these devices have attracted the attention of IT staff at... [12 Nov 2009]
SmartDEGREE From TCS to Combat Certificate Malpractices
White Paper Using SmartDEGREE, a university can award certificates with an embedded RFID tag that is encoded with the holder's name, date of graduation, type of degree and entire transcript, photograph and biometrics (fingerprints),... [12 Nov 2009]
An Efficient Method for Service Level Agreement Assessment
White Paper On-line end-to-end Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring is of key importance nowadays. For this purpose, recent researches have focused on measuring (when possible), or estimating (most of the times) network Quality of Service (QoS)... [12 Nov 2009]
Increasing SIP Firewall Performance by Ruleset Size Limitation
White Paper To protect SIP communication networks from attacks, especially flooding attacks like Denial-of-Service or message spam, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are deployed at the ingress point of the network to filter potential malicious... [12 Nov 2009]
On Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Consolidated Servers in Virtualized Data Centers
White Paper Server consolidation based on Operating System (OS) virtualization technologies aims to increase the total resource utilization in data centers. However, efficiently capitalizing on the available resources requires tools to automatically... [12 Nov 2009]
Revealing Hidden Context: Improving Mental Models of Personal Firewall Users
White Paper The Windows Vista personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, concealing the impact of network context on the security state of the firewall may result in users... [12 Nov 2009]
On Availability of Intermediate Data in Cloud Computations
White Paper This paper takes a renewed look at the problem of managing intermediate data that is generated during dataflow computations (e.g. MapReduce, Pig, Dryad, etc.within clouds. It discusses salient features of the intermediate data and... [12 Nov 2009]
Enhancement Misconfiguration Management of Network Security Components Using Range Algorithm
White Paper Many companies and organizations use firewalls to control the access to their network infrastructure. When processing packages, conflicts due to rule overlaps can occur within the filtering policy. To solve these conflicts most firewall... [12 Nov 2009]
Leveraging Public Resource Pools to Improve the Service Compliances of Computing Utilities
White Paper Computing utilities are emerging as an important part of the infrastructure for outsourcing computer services. One of the major objectives of computing utilities is to maximize their net profit while maintaining customer loyalty in... [12 Nov 2009]
Towards SLA-Based Optimal Workload Distribution in SANs
White Paper Storage Area Networks (SANs) connect storage devices to servers over fast network interconnects. The paper considers the problem of optimal SAN configuration with the goal of meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for server processes... [12 Nov 2009]
An Interval Decision Diagram Based Firewall
White Paper This paper explores the use of Interval Decision Diagrams (IDDs) as the central structure of a firewall packet filtering mechanism. This is done by first relating the packet filtering problem to predicate logic, then implementing a... [12 Nov 2009]
Advanced QoS Methods for Grid Workflows Based on Meta-Negotiations and SLA-Mappings
White Paper In novel market-oriented resource sharing models, resource consumers pay for the resource usage and expect that non-functional requirements for the application execution, termed as Quality of Service (QoS), are satisfied. [12 Nov 2009]
An Anomaly-Based Intrusion Detection Architecture to Secure Wireless Networks
White Paper Ensuring that the appropriate level of security is available in wireless networks is absolutely essential. To aid in the defense and detection of potential threats, WLANs should employ security solutions that include an anomaly-based... [12 Nov 2009]
Cloud Computing Challenges and Related Security Issues
White Paper The field of cloud computing is still in its infancy as far as implementation and usage, partly because it is heavily promoted by technology advancement and is so high resource dependent that researches in academic institutions have not... [12 Nov 2009]
