The demand for cheap broadband Internet for nomadic users has created a market for Internet sharing. Wi- Fi communities which allow their users to share their wired Internet connections have emerged and become increas...
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The demand for cheap broadband Internet for nomadic users has created a market for Internet sharing. Wi- Fi communities which allow their users to share their wired Internet connections have emerged and become increasingly popular. Organizations like FON promise to provide free wireless Internet access in many places. However, user authentication is the Achilles heel of these systems. A user that allows other community members to use its access point must expect to be held responsible for other users' actions. Moreover, these Wi-Fi sharing systems are often insecure which allows eavesdroppers to gather sensitive information on the wireless link. This work provides efficient, scalable, and secure access control for large Wi-Fi sharing systems. The host identity protocol (HIP) is used as a building block for a solution which supports strong user authentication as well as mobility support for nomadic users. In our presentation, we show the feasibility and effectiveness of this approach by demonstrating the PISA authentication protocol in action.
Advanced pervasive transportation services aim to improve the safety and efficiency of public and private transportation facilities, while reducing operating costs and improving the travel experience for drivers, pass...
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Advanced pervasive transportation services aim to improve the safety and efficiency of public and private transportation facilities, while reducing operating costs and improving the travel experience for drivers, passengers and other travellers. In order to achieve these goals, such services require access to context information from a myriad of distributed, heterogeneous intelligent transportation systems. A context management scheme that models information in a standard fashion is essential to support information sharing between individual systems, and higher-level information reasoning. This paper presents an ontology-based spatial context model, which takes a combined approach to modelling context information utilised by pervasive transportation services: the primary-context model facilitates interoperation across independent intelligent transportation systems, whereas the primary-context ontology enables pervasive transportation services to reason about shared context information and to react accordingly. The independently defined, distributed information is correlated based on its primary-context: location, time, identity, and quality of service. The primary-context model and ontology have been evaluated by modelling a car park system for a smart parking space locator service
In this paper, we define a family of syntactic kernels for automatic relational learning from pairs of natural language sentences. We provide an efficient computation of such models by optimizing the dynamic programmi...
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(纸本)9781595937933
In this paper, we define a family of syntactic kernels for automatic relational learning from pairs of natural language sentences. We provide an efficient computation of such models by optimizing the dynamic programming algorithm of the kernel evaluation. Experiments with Support Vector Machines and the above kernels show the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on two very important natural language tasks, Textual Entailment Recognition and Question Answering.
In the Service Oriented Grid, a grid application can be composed of diverse Grid Services which may be already deployed on grid sites, and dependencies between these Grid Services can be described as the workflow grap...
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In UMTS networks, the transmit power for the HSDPA can be a large fraction of the total transmit power of a NodeB. We investigate the impact of three HSDPA transmit power allocation schemes on the performance of a UMT...
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In UMTS networks, the transmit power for the HSDPA can be a large fraction of the total transmit power of a NodeB. We investigate the impact of three HSDPA transmit power allocation schemes on the performance of a UMTS system with dedicated channel users and HSDPA users. The continuous HSDPA power allocation scheme avoids large steps of the transmit power in order to prevent irregularities in the downlink power control of dedicated channels. In contrast, the traffic-aware scheme switches the HSDPA power on only if data has to be transmitted. The power-ramping scheme combines the continuous and the traffic-aware scheme. The simulation model considers the complete interference situation in the network and uses a novel model to calculate HSDPA bandwidths. The results quantify the performance loss with the continuous scheme caused by additional interference, and show that the power-ramping scheme leads to results close to the traffic-aware scheme.
Context-aware power management (CAPM) uses context (e.g., user location) likely to be available in future ubiquitous computing environments, to effectively power manage a building's energy consuming devices. The o...
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(纸本)9783540748526
Context-aware power management (CAPM) uses context (e.g., user location) likely to be available in future ubiquitous computing environments, to effectively power manage a building's energy consuming devices. The objective of CAPM is to minimise overall energy consumption while maintaining user-perceived device *** principal context required by CAPM is when the user is NOT USING and when the user is about to use a device. Accurately inferring this user context is challenging and there is a balance between how much energy additional context can save and how much it will cost energy wise. This paper presents results from a detailed user study that investigated the potential of such *** results show that CAPM is a hard problem. It is possible to get within 6% of the optimal policy, but policy performance is very dependent on user behaviour. Furthermore, adding more sensors to improve context inference can actually increase overall energy consumption.
The WiMAX technology based on the IEEE802.16 standard is currently the most prospective candidate for broadband wireless access networks. One of the key issues is the design of the MAC layer, in particular the multipl...
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The WiMAX technology based on the IEEE802.16 standard is currently the most prospective candidate for broadband wireless access networks. One of the key issues is the design of the MAC layer, in particular the multiple access scheme. The IEEE 802.16 standard specifies different scheduling services with individual mechanisms for accessing the channel on the uplink. The non-real-time polling service and the best-effort service mainly rely on a contention mechanism to submit bandwidth requests to the base station. These two services are currently used for all types of traffic with unknown characteristics, i.e. typically all traffic except for some special VoIP connection with known codec. In this paper, we evaluate and compare the performance of the contention mechanisms for fixed and mobile WiMAX.
The deployment of multimedia services in next- generation networks is a challenge due to the high configuration complexity of the streaming process in different stationary and mobile sub-networks and for various user ...
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The deployment of multimedia services in next- generation networks is a challenge due to the high configuration complexity of the streaming process in different stationary and mobile sub-networks and for various user devices. The session initiation protocol (SIP) has proven to be a suitable mechanism to handle the control of multimedia services in such networks. However, the current standardization and implementation of SIP do not allow the simultaneous coordination of multiple concurrent applications on a single device, as the prescribed realization of the SIP state machines (transactions) does not consider mutual access of applications to a single SIP stack. This paper presents a SIP- based mechanism for synchronized management of services in a shared environment. We have developed a middleware that facilitates the uniform access of multiple applications towards one or multiple SIP stacks to enable prioritization of services and centralized resource coordination of concurrent SIP applications on a single terminal or server.
The ubiquitous access to multimedia services anywhere and at any time requires flexible service accommodation to user requirements and to device capabilities. At mobility of persons and devices, it is possible to enfo...
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The ubiquitous access to multimedia services anywhere and at any time requires flexible service accommodation to user requirements and to device capabilities. At mobility of persons and devices, it is possible to enforce not only terminal-based adaptations, but also the media sessions can migrate from device to device to optimize the user experience. As the capabilities of mobile hand-held devices are limited, migrating sessions to close-by high-performance terminals like wall displays or in-home entertainment systems will indeed contribute to optimized device application and to more satisfactory media consumption. The current SIP/SDP framework can partially enable a session-migration process. However, SIP/SDP lacks advanced client-search and description capabilities. On the other hand, MPEG-21 DI can support sophisticated service descriptions but it misses a control-data exchange approach. Therefore, this paper proposes to merge concepts from IMS using SIP/SDP(ng) with MPEG-21 DI to implement a novel session migration concept based on standardized mechanisms.
In daily life, humans must compensate for the resultant forces arising from interaction with the physical environment. Recent studies have shown that humans can acquire a neural representation of the relation between ...
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