We discuss the development of virtual communities and especially e-learning communities. In particular, we are inspired by VirRAD European project, and we present the intermediate results that have raised from the def...
详细信息
We discuss the development of virtual communities and especially e-learning communities. In particular, we are inspired by VirRAD European project, and we present the intermediate results that have raised from the definition of this virtual radiopharmacy community.
In this paper a new blind image-adaptive watermarking technique is proposed. The main contributions in this work are the following. First, a new spatial mask taking into account the Human Visual System (HVS) propertie...
详细信息
In this paper a new blind image-adaptive watermarking technique is proposed. The main contributions in this work are the following. First, a new spatial mask taking into account the Human Visual System (HVS) properties, is proposed. The mask is constructed based on the local variance of the cover image prediction error sequence. Second, an improved detection scheme has been developed, which is blind, in the sense that no knowledge concerning the cover image is required. The similarity measure used in the detector is the normalized correlation between the reproduced watermark and the prediction error of the watermarked and possibly attacked image (instead of the image itself). Due to the above modifications the proposed technique exhibits superior performance as compared to the conventional HVS-based blind adaptive watermarking. This performance improvement has been justified theoretically and verified through extensive simulations. In particular, the proposed technique is robust to additive white noise, JPEG and Wavelet compression, filtering etc.
We discuss our experience form porting the OpenH323 platform to IPv6. We briefly discuss the structure of the platform, and we present the various problems we faced and choices we made, regarding the easiest approach ...
详细信息
We discuss our experience form porting the OpenH323 platform to IPv6. We briefly discuss the structure of the platform, and we present the various problems we faced and choices we made, regarding the easiest approach to the porting procedure, the compatibility with earlier, IPv4-only versions of the platform, the existence of tools that could aid us with the porting task and the verification of results. We believe that the results of our effort can serve as guidelines for other similar projects and we present a general methodology which might be applicable to similar porting projects.
The increased need for quality of service (QoS) in today's networks has concentrated a lot of research and implementation efforts. Particular interest exists for the exploitation of the DiffServ framework towards ...
详细信息
The increased need for quality of service (QoS) in today's networks has concentrated a lot of research and implementation efforts. Particular interest exists for the exploitation of the DiffServ framework towards the provision of qualitative services in MAN and WAN worldwide. Although individual mechanisms have been widely investigated, not many references to studies combining all levels of priority and QoS provisioning exist. This work aims at presenting a thorough and unified approach to the dimensioning and provisioning of a high priority service for high-quality demanding traffic over a MAN/WAN environment. Our approach anticipates for bounds in specific quality metrics and is demonstrated by the experimental case-study of a high-priority service over a MAN topology.
A lot of research work has recently focused on the exploitation of the DiffServ framework towards building reliable networking services that provide deterministic quality guarantees. In this work we are attempting to ...
详细信息
A lot of research work has recently focused on the exploitation of the DiffServ framework towards building reliable networking services that provide deterministic quality guarantees. In this work we are attempting to devise a DiffServ-based service model for relative differentiation of traffic in a network serving aggregated traffic. The service model proposed aims at providing a minimum capacity during congestion and a bounded average end-to-end delay to profile-conforming traffic, obtaining thus a relatively better performance when compared to the best-effort service. We provide the framework on which the proposed service model is based and we present results from its deployment in a simulation environment.
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...
详细信息
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...
详细信息
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...
详细信息
ISBN:
(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...
详细信息
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...
详细信息
ISBN:
(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
暂无评论