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Hardware (B)
Exact combinational logic synthesis and non-standard circuit design
: CF 2008
It is a common belief among engineers that symmetric operations are better for combinational logic synthesis. The authors here suggest that asymmetrical operators {<, =>} have better expressiveness...
Combinational Logic (B.6.1...) | Jun 26 08
Task mapping and priority assignment for soft real-time applications under deadline miss ratio constraints
: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
Task mapping and priority assignment are critical to the efficiency of distributed multiprocessor systems. This paper presents a scheduling policy to perform these actions. The proposed method considers...
General (B.8.0) | Jul 16 08
The research of self-repairing digital circuit based on embryonic cellular array
: Neural Computing and Applications
Following a well-known column-elimination strategy, this paper satisfies the stated goal of successfully implementing a self-repairing mechanism using lookup tables (LUT). Successful repair is validated...
Reliability/Testing/Fault-Tol. (B.8.1) | Jun 25 08
Computer Systems Organization (C)
Active behavioral fingerprinting of wireless devices
: WiSec ’08
Fingerprinting for wireless devices, especially for those using 802.11 series standards, has a wide variety of targets and approaches. Is there any approach that exploits the stimulus-response nature...
Network Architecture & Design (C.2.1) | Jul 18 08
Publish/subscribe architecture for mobile ad hoc networks
: SAC ’08
The publish/subscribe (P/S) communication paradigm is increasingly gaining attention. This is due to the rise of event-driven service-oriented architecture (SOA), with its enterprise service bus (ESB)...
Network Architecture And Design (C.2.1) | Jul 15 08
Cooperative communications
: Foundations and Trends in Networking
This very interesting and comprehensive paper provides a detailed review of the progress made over the decades in cooperative communication technologies in wired and wireless networks.
From the beginning...
Network Communications (C.2.1...) | Jul 4 08
Secure multi-hop network programming with multiple one-way key chains
: WiSec ’08
The open Internet raises new challenges for trust and security, as vast sensor networks become pervasive. The authors showcase their approach for using multiple one-way...
Network Protocols (C.2.2) | Jul 3 08
A secure privacy-preserving roaming protocol based on hierarchical identity-based encryption for mobile networks
: WiSec ’08
The current challenge in wireless networking is providing users with flexibility and convenience, together with security and privacy, while they roam across several wireless networks. In this...
Network Protocols (C.2.2) | Jul 2 08
Towards cinematic Internet video-on-demand
: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Cheng et al. describe and discuss GridCast, a video-on-demand system, online since 2006. This system employs peer assistance to improve scalability and continuity. This approach allows GridCast...
Distributed Applications (C.2.4...) | Jul 1 08
A generalized approach to the design of variable fractional-delay FIR digital filters
: Signal Processing
Fractional-delay finite impulse response (FIR) filters have many uses, such as in communications for timing recovery, or in digital audio for arbitrary resampling.
In this...
Signal Processing Systems (C.3...) | Jul 1 08
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Hardware (B)
Fiber optic essentials
Fiber optics has come a long way over the past decades: from being purely an interesting field of science, to becoming an important multiapplications field, to settling down as an indispensable and promising technology with various uses. To be clear, fiber-optics...
Fiber Optics (B.4.3...) | Jul 4 08
Computer Systems Organization (C)
Vulnerability analysis and defense for the Internet
The authors set out to educate the reader about the various aspects of vulnerabilities in computer networks or applications, and ways in which end users and application developers can seek to mitigate some of these risks. Chapter 1 provides a general...
Security and Protection (C.2.0...) | Jul 15 08
WCDMA for UMTS: HSPA evolution and LTE
In a nutshell, this volume is about the evolution of public wireless communication technologies and their future. Whereas most books describe the state of the art and history, this one looks forward to...
Wireless Communication (C.2.1...) | Jul 15 08
Software (D)
Constraint logic programming using ECLiPSe
This is a handbook for topical undergraduate and graduate courses that teach algorithmic problem solving using constraint optimization and logic programming. Apt and Wallace take the reader through a journey of understanding the formal...
Logic Programming (D.1.6) | Jul 17 08
Geekonomics: the real cost of insecure software
As we become more and more dependent on computer systems, and in turn on the software code that runs them, the consequences of encountering bugs in that code are turning out to be very high. This book provides an in-depth look at the various...
Protection Mechanisms (D.2.0...) | Jun 30 08
Test and analysis of Web services
The information technology (IT) industry has given the thumbs-up to service-oriented architecture (SOA). Big players, such as IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft, are investing heavily in SOA development tools. What is still missing is a thorough methodology for...
Testing And Debugging (D.2.5) | Jul 3 08
Beginning XNA 2.0 game programming: from novice to professional
This well-written book covers the basics of game programming. The subtitle is a bit ambitious because even mastery of this content will not be sufficient to become a professional.
Commercial games often have large budgets and many developers...
Interactive Environments (D.2.6...) | Jul 11 08
Advanced Ajax: architecture and best practices
From a usability perspective, the “bread and butter” Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Web interface is a step down compared to classic non-Web interfaces provided by last century’s “fat client-server” technologies. Since the dawn of the...
Integrated Environments (D.2.6...) | Jul 10 08
The definitive guide to Django: Web development done right
One would expect Web-development software to eventually converge, so that we’d have a few convenient, useful, usable Web frameworks to choose from, with supporting software toolkits. Perhaps, eventually, this will happen, but for...
Integrated Environments (D.2.6...) | Jul 4 08
Practical reporting with Ruby and Rails
Ruby is an open-source programming language that combines the features of both functional and imperative techniques. This book offers details on how to create reports with Ruby, including tools and techniques to manage data. While many tools...
Integrated Environments (D.2.6...) | Jul 2 08
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