FEXT crosstalk identification results to improved frequency spectrum utilization in ADSL systems. The accurate determination of the crosstalk transfer function is a demanding task that is affected by various system im...
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Enterprise software infrastructure traditionally comprises a number of independent systems in order to support customer needs and business processes complicating this way productivity, performance and maintenance. Ins...
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(纸本)0769519164
Enterprise software infrastructure traditionally comprises a number of independent systems in order to support customer needs and business processes complicating this way productivity, performance and maintenance. Instead there are hypermedia facilities based on widespread standards that provide over a user-friendly, well-known framework richer functionality and features. In the paper, we present the design, implementation and evaluation of the combined use of web services and adaptive web-based techniques. We describe a large-scale hypermedia framework that improves the efficiency and performance of conventional enterprise activities like customer services (registration, activation, billing, support) and document management. The presented approach aims to cover these fundamental needs for a network of customers, collaborators and intranet employees.
Enterprise software infrastructure traditionally comprises a number of independent systems in order to support customer needs and business processes complicating productivity, performance and maintenance. Instead ther...
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Enterprise software infrastructure traditionally comprises a number of independent systems in order to support customer needs and business processes complicating productivity, performance and maintenance. Instead there are hypermedia facilities based on widespread standards that provide over a user-friendly, well-known framework richer functionality and features. In the paper, we present the design, implementation and evaluation of the combined use of Web services and adaptive Web-based techniques. We describe a large-scale hypermedia framework that improves the efficiency and performance of conventional enterprise activities like customer services (registration, activation, billing, support) and document management. The presented approach aims to cover these fundamental needs for a network of customers, collaborators and intranet employees.
The basic networking unit in Bluetooth is piconet, and a larger-area Bluetooth network can be formed by multiple piconets, called scatternet. However, the structure of scatternets is not defined in the Bluetooth speci...
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(纸本)0769518745
The basic networking unit in Bluetooth is piconet, and a larger-area Bluetooth network can be formed by multiple piconets, called scatternet. However, the structure of scatternets is not defined in the Bluetooth specification and remains as an open issue at the designers' choice. It is desirable to have simple yet efficient scatternet topologies with well supports of routing protocols, considering that Bluetooths are to be used for personal-area networks with design goals of simplicity and compactness. In the literature, although many routing protocols have been proposed for mobile ad hoc networks, directly applying them poses a problem due to Bluetooth's special baseband and MAC-layer features. In this work, we propose an attractive scatternet topology called BlueRing which connects piconets as a ring interleaved by bridges between piconets, and address its formation, routing, and topology maintenance protocols. The BlueRing architecture enjoys the following nice features. First, routing on BlueRing is stateless in the sense that no routing information needs to be kept by any host once the ring is formed. This would be favourable for environments such as Smart Homes where computing capability is limited. Second, the architecture is scalable to median-size scatternets easily (e.g., around 50∼70 Bluetooth units). In comparison, most star- or tree-like scatternet topologies can easily form a communication bottleneck at the root of the tree as the network enlarges. Third, maintaining a BlueRing is an easy job even as some Bluetooth units join or leave the network. To tolerate single-point failure, we propose a protocol-level remedy mechanism. To tolerate multi-point failure, we propose a recovery mechanism to reconnect the BlueRing. Graceful failure is tolerable as long as no two or more critical points fail at the same time. As far as we know, the fault-tolerant issue has not been properly addressed by existing scatternet protocols yet. In addition, we also evaluate t
We discuss a new generic optimal controller structure for raw material blending in the cement industry. We focus on an important phase of the proportioning-burning-grinding operation triplet that essentially determine...
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We discuss a new generic optimal controller structure for raw material blending in the cement industry. We focus on an important phase of the proportioning-burning-grinding operation triplet that essentially determines the cement quality; namely, the composition control of the raw mill system. We begin by describing the application of a generic optimal controller structure to this important phase, followed by a discussion of the control engineering background and the design of the realized controller. Finally, the control algorithm is discussed in a technology-independent manner.
Smart dust is a set of a vast number of ultra-small fully autonomous computing and communication devices, with very restricted energy and computing capabilities, that co-operate to quickly and efficiently accomplish a...
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Smart dust is a set of a vast number of ultra-small fully autonomous computing and communication devices, with very restricted energy and computing capabilities, that co-operate to quickly and efficiently accomplish a large sensing task. Smart dust can be very useful in practice i.e. in the local detection of a remote crucial event and the propagation of data reporting its realization. In this work we continue our effort towards the research on smart dust from a basic algorithmic point of view. Under a simple but realistic model for smart dust we present an interesting problem, which is how to propagate efficiently information on an event detected locally. Then we present anew smart dust protocol, which we call the "Sleep-Awake" protocol, for information propagation that explicitly uses the energy saving features (i.e. the alteration of sleeping and awake time periods) of the smart dust particles. By using both some simple probabilistic analysis and extensive experiments, we provide some first concrete results for the success probability and the time and energy efficiency of the protocol, in terms of parameters of the smart dust network. We note that the study of the interplay of these parameters allows us to program the smart dust network characteristics accordingly.
Undoubtedly, video-on-demand technology will play a catalytic role in future entertainment and e-learning systems. The key challenge in VoD domain is to provide interactive services in thousands of potential users at ...
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Undoubtedly, video-on-demand technology will play a catalytic role in future entertainment and e-learning systems. The key challenge in VoD domain is to provide interactive services in thousands of potential users at a reasonable cost. We present a scalable, high performance, high availability and low cost VoD system design, based on a cluster of personal computer. The scalability of this design is not restricted to cluster-level, but it can easily be applied to a greater MAN-level. The experimental measurements indicated that our design can support simultaneously 90, 170 or 240 high quality video streams for implementations with 1, 2 or 3 server nodes respectively. We show, using queuing theory analysis that these figures correspond to thousands of real users. We also present a multicast method that further enriches our design increasing its reliability in periods of high demand.
The analysis, design aspects and numerical results of a current controlled three-phase Space Vector Modulated (SVM) Voltage Source Converter (VSC) are presented. The aim of the current controller of VSC is to track th...
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In this paper we describe the methodology and architecture of a flexible modular environment for prototyping data transmission systems and its application on xDSL systems. The development environment is based on custo...
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In this paper we describe the methodology and architecture of a flexible modular environment for prototyping data transmission systems and its application on xDSL systems. The development environment is based on custom and commercially available software tools and a custom hardware emulation platform for mapping the basic data-pump modules of xDSL systems into hardware/software functional modules. The road-map from a high-level xDSL system model to the actual prototype is based on the progressive substitution of high-level submodules of the initial model with their respective hardware/software counterparts, and their integration into a complete functional system. A library of custom blocks is used for data exchange and synchronization between the high-level model and the emulation platform, and for real-time visualization of the critical parameters of the emulated system as well. The application of the proposed development environment in the implementation and testing of an emulator of a bundle of DSL lines and of a centralized bit-loading algorithm for multicarrier ADSL systems is also described.
This paper introduces the ReSArT (Reconfigurable Scalable Architecture Template). Based on a suitable design space model, Re- SArT is parametrizable, scalable, and able to support all levels of parallelism. To derive ...
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