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RSS zurichOn the Capacity of Noncoherent Wideband MIMO-OFDM Systems
White Paper In this paper the capacity behavior of full-band MIMO-OFDM systems in the absence of channel state information both at the transmitter and the receiver is studied. Based on capacity lower and upper bounds, the transmission rate penalty due to... [09 Aug 2008]
ASAP: An Adaptive QoS Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper With the increasing widespread use of wireless technologies, the need arises for QoS provisioning mechanisms for multimedia applications in wireless networks. However, to support QoS in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) is more challenging than in... [17 Jul 2008]
Why QoS Will Be Needed in Metro Ethernets
White Paper Emerging Metro Ethernets create new opportunities to converge data and telephony services. However, to connect legacy telephony equipment, networks have to meet customary QoS requirements even at the presence of bursty data cross traffic. [17 Jul 2008]
Bandwidth Monitoring for Network-Aware Applications
White Paper Network-aware content delivery is an attractive approach to mitigate the problems produced by the significant fluctuations of the available bandwidth present in today's Internet. Such network-aware application requires information about the current... [11 Jul 2008]
Workload Modeling for Load Balancing in Distributed DB/DC Transaction Processing
White Paper Distributed transaction processing is still one of the most complex problems in contemporary computing. This paper discuss the characteristic features of high performance transaction processing and it demonstrate, how the complexity of load... [10 Jul 2008]
A Comparison of Task Pools for Dynamic Load Balancing of Irregular Algorithms
White Paper Since a static data distribution does not give satisfactory results for parallel irregular algorithms, there is need for a dynamic distribution of data that can be adapted to the current runtime behavior of the algorithm. [10 Jul 2008]
Old browsers at risk from attack
News Using data collected from Google web searches and security firm Secunia, the researchers - Stefan Frei of ETH, Zurich; Thomas Dübendorfer of Google; Gunter Ollmann of IBM ISS; and Martin May of ETH, Zurich - analysed the browsers used in a report. [03 Jul 2008]
SAP Case Study: Zurich Financial Services
White Paper The Zurich Financial Services Group is a global leader in financial services. Zurich wanted to achieve single underlying business processes to drive the policies and employee terms and conditions across the organisation. [03 Jul 2008]
Relocating the Datacentre Pays Off for Zurich Financial Services
White Paper Zurich Australia, owned by the Swiss-based worldwide Zurich Group, offers a wide range of investment and risk management products to corporate, commercial and personal customers - both direct and through advisers and brokers. [03 Jul 2008]
Grasshopper Club Zurich Has What It Takes To Win - In Business and On the Field
White Paper Grasshopper Club Zurich (GCZ), the largest soccer club in Switzerland, was number one in its league and became the first soccer club in Switzerland to go public. Find out how a respected athletic organization transforms itself into a bonafide... [03 Jul 2008]
eProduction delivers qualified car buyers to insurer’s door.
White Paper Insurance giant Zurich Switzerland (Zurich), sought a way to improve its success rate for selling car insurance directly online. To maximize Zurich’s reach as cost-effectively as possible, eProduction created an application that retrieves... [03 Jul 2008]
FutureSoft Holds Back the Spam Flood at Telekurs U.S.
White Paper Based in Zurich, Switzerland, and with approximately 2,000 employees worldwide, Telekurs Group provides services and products in the areas of international financial information, cashless payment instruments, electronic payment systems and IT... [03 Jul 2008]
Vipera Mobile Network Operator: Vision Whitepaper
White Paper Vipera is a mobile data network operated by Vipera GmbH (Ltd.a company founded early in 2003 with registered offices near Zurich, Switzerland. In contrast to most other mobile operators Vipera does not offer traditional voice services, Vipera's... [03 Jul 2008]
Cognos Gives Swiss Life (Belgium) a Secure Grip on its Figures
White Paper From its humble roots as a mutual insurer in Zurich in 1857, Swiss Life has grown into a blue chip group. One of the first synergy projects, together with asset management, was the introduction of CODA Financials as a new accounting system for both... [03 Jul 2008]
Delivering Real-Time Data to All Clinical Staff
White Paper Gesundheitszentrum Sanitas, in Zurich, Switzerland, trusts EDS: After carefully considering three other options from other providers, the hospital chose EDS DIOHIS Mobile. This wireless, online hospital management system solution enables faster... [03 Jul 2008]
