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Proposed Standard Promises to Enhance Network OperationsThe proposed application service resiliency standard would help telecommunications carriers maintain service continuity for high-priority applications regardless of network failures.Casinos Bet on ...
Scaling Network Services Using Programmable Network Devices
The NEon system offers an integrated approach to architecting, operating, and managing network services. NEon uses policy rules defining the operation of individual network services and produces a unified set of rules that generic packet-processing ...
Point of Highest Leverage
Whole-project thinking is surprisingly effective, but it's also surprising how few engineers take the initiative to occasionally step outside their box to see if the overall project picture looks right.
Will Binary XML Speed Network Traffic?
XML documents are large and inefficient to process and can become a burden on network, processor, and storage infrastructures. To alleviate this problem, some experts are proposing a thinner, binary XML.
Mobile Phones: The Next Frontier for Hackers?
Security experts are finding an increasing number of viruses, worms, and Trojan horses that target cell phones. Experts say it is only a matter of time before this mobile malware causes extensive damage.
The Future Interconnection Environment
Networks pervade nature, society, and virtual worlds, giving structure and function to a variety of resources and behaviors. Discovering the rules that govern the future interconnection environment is a major challenge.
Overcoming the Internet Impasse through Virtualization
Most current Internet research involves either empirical measurement studies or incremental modifications that can be deployed without major architectural changes. Easy access to virtual testbeds could foster a renaissance in applied architectural ...
Emerging Grid Standards
Individual projects carried out to meet specific needs must interact as part of a larger Grid environment, but no international consensus exists as to which of the many ideas, proposed standards, and specifications are likely to dominate in the future.
Leveraging Social Networks to Fight Spam
Social networks are useful for judging the trustworthiness of outsiders. An automated antispam tool exploits the properties of social networks to distinguish between unsolicited commercial e-mail spam and messages associated with people the user knows.
Game Engine Virtual Reality with CaveUT
Based on Unreal Tournament, the CaveUT game engine gives developers a high-performance, low-cost VR alternative.
Social-Mobile Applications
For a growing number of mobile users, handhelds primarily have a social function.
In Defense of Spam
Legislators' well-meaning attempts to eradicate spam are woefully misdirected.