Browsing by Author "Lim, Alvin S."

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Adaptive Rate Control based on Collision and Frame Aggregation Awareness

Kim, Dongjin (2014-06-23)

The innovative advances in mobile technologies have facilitated remarkable growth in the use of mobile devices such as smart phones, e-book readers, and tablet PCs. Since a significant amount of wireless traffic is generated ...

Adaptive TCP Flow Control for Improving Performance of Mobile Cloud Clusters

Lee, Seungbae (2014-04-23)

Significant innovations in mobile technologies are enabling mobile users to make real-time actionable decisions based on balancing opportunities and risks in order to take coordinated actions with others in the workplace. ...

A Framework for Universal Problem Resolution with Continuous Improvement

Leithiser, Robert (2014-05-01)

This dissertation outlines a universal problem resolution framework implementing reasoning and improvement capabilities exhibited by human beings. The work reviews literature concerning major differentiations of human ...

iTad: An I/O-Aware Thermal Model for Data Centers

Muzaffar, Tausif (2014-05-08)

With the ever-growing cooling costs of large-scale data centers, thermal management must be adequately addressed. Thermal models can play a critical role in thermal management that helps in reducing cooling costs in data ...

Maximizing Connectivity and Performance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using Mobile Agents

Dengiz, Orhan (2007-12-15)

Mobile wireless ad hoc networks are instantaneous, autonomous telecommunication networks that provide service to users wherever and whenever the service is needed. The communication depends on wireless links that are formed ...

A Meta-Parallel Evolutionary System for Solving Optimization Problems

Britt, Winard (2007-05-15)

The purpose of the Meta-Parallel Evolutionary System (MPES) is to develop fast, efficient parallel evolutionary systems for function optimization. Given an optimization problem and a set number of nodes available for the ...

Opportunistic Random Access in CSMA/CA-Based Wireless Networks

Balasubramani, Jagadeesh (2013-10-18)

IEEE 802.11 MAC based CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) is the most widely used protocol in wireless networks. In CSMA/CA, every node listens to the shared wireless medium and transmits ...

Privacy-Enabled Probabilistic Verification in Broadcast Authentication for Vehicular Networks

Grover, Kanika (2014-10-10)

Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) possess an extremely dynamic nature accompanying the high mobility feature. In VANETs, each vehicle sends out safety messages at regular intervals of 100-300 ms. Since the purpose of ...

Reliability, Scalability and Security in Smart Utility Networks

Iyer, Gopalakrishnan (2014-05-01)

With the rapid increase in deployment of smart meters across North America, resource consumption data of utilities such as water, gas and electricity is being collected at a much higher granular level. The huge amount ...

Scalable, Self-Healing, and Real-Time Network Services for Directed Diffusion

Casey, Kenan (2008-08-15)

Directed diffusion is a data-centric publish-subscribe routing protocol for sensor networks. We have proposed three network services which increase the capabilities of directed diffusion. Our protocols build on the inherent ...

Scalable, Self-Healing, and Real-Time Network Services for Directed Diffusion

Casey, Kenan (2007-05-15)

Directed diffusion is a data-centric publish-subscribe routing protocol for sensor networks. We have designed, implemented, and evaluated three network services which build on the strengths of directed diffusion and lessen ...