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Named Data Networking (NDN) is one of the promising future internet architectures, which focuses on the data rather than its location (IP/host-based system). NDN has several characteristics which facilitate addressing and routing the data: fail-over, in-network caching and load balancing. This makes it useful in areas such as managing scientific data. The CMS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider...
In this paper, we introduce a road surface conditionunderstanding and sharing system. Traffic accidents and obstructionsdue to bad weather conditions and poor road conditions areserious social problems. It is necessary for drivers to understandweather and road conditions in advance to avoid traffic accidentsand obstructions and it is necessary to alert drivers to weatherand road conditions in order...
HydroTerre is a research prototype platform developed at Penn State for the hydrology community. It provides access to aggregated scientific data sets that are useful for hydrological modeling and research. HydroTerre’s frontend is a web service, and a user query can request creation of a data bundle whose size can vary from a few megabytes to 100’s of gigabytes. In this article, we present software...
In a meteorology data-distribution application, streams of files are served to hundreds of receivers every day on unicast TCP connections. Software Defined Networking (SDN) offers a more scalable solution in which a rate-guaranteed Layer-2 multipoint virtual topology can be provisioned to have switches perform Ethernet-frame multicasting to support this application. A characterization of the file...
In compliance with federal requirements, many states heavily invest in establishing Traffic Monitoring Systems (TMS). A number of automatic vehicle counting and weigh-in-motion sites have been deployed to collect on-demand traffic information including, among others, vehicle volume, weight, and classification. Some TMS are also equipped with weather stations and road-surface probes. This paper presents...
Today there is no possibility for precise and fine-grained live weather tracking in open waters available to seafaring vessels and other interested parties. The refresh period of weather data and the coverage of the already existing and stationary weather stations on seas are insufficient. In addition, for non-commercial seafaring vessels, there is little or no reliable information on depth for many...
This paper proposes a hybrid infrastructure construction of multi-functions digital public address (PA) system, which consists of wired and wireless communications architecture. Wireless communications ability can be achieved by dedicated USB dongles such as WiFi, WiMax, 3G, and LTE. Wireless communication can be used for disaster areas or some regions where is difficult to install wired-based PA...
Due to the lack of central control in distributed systems, design and implementation of such systems is a challenging task. Interaction of multiple autonomous components can easily result in unwanted behavior in the system. Therefore it is vital to carefully review the design of distributed systems. Manual review of software documents is too inefficient and error prone. It would therefore be beneficial...
The importance of prevention plans based on realistic inundation scenarios was dramatically highlighted by the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004. But also in the Mediterranean, sea storms basin are a quite common event especially during winter months. These scenarios are generally based on numerical models of tsunami wave propagation that can become more realistic and effective when calibrated...
The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a multi-agency, international collaboration that aims at developing the software infrastructure needed to facilitate and empower the study of climate change on a global scale. The ESGF's architecture employs a system of geographically distributed peer nodes, which are independently administered yet united by the adoption of common federation protocols and...
Our on-going project, Unibus, aims to facilitate provisioning and aggregation of multifaceted resources from resource providers and end-users’ perspectives. To achieve that, Unibus proposes (1) the Capability Model and mediators (resource drivers) to virtualize access to diverse resources, and (2) soft and successive conditioning to enable automatic and user-transparent resource provisioning. In this...
To date, the literature on software architecture for cloud computing is focussed largely on the service provider, and inadequately reflects the fact that cloud computing is a form of client-server relationship. Architectures must also encompass the software and devices that users utilise in order to invoke functions in the cloud, and intermediary functions. A further problem with analyses to date...
Cloud computing is a development and integration result of distributed processing, parallel processing and grid computing technologies. It helps the enterprise switch the resources according to the applications, accesses computer and storage systems according to the demand. And it provides a new computing model for enterprise informatization. This paper introduces items realted to cloud computing:...
Cloud computing has brought us a new perspective to look at the current resource-sharing problem, cloud computing can be applied to digital library resources to improve information sharing capabilities, improve resource utilization.
Web 2.0 started a paradigm shift concerning content generation. Users spend hours browsing and producing contents to share, most of the times, freely. During these activities, their laptops and home PCs are considerably underused. By combining the amount of idle processing capacity with increasingly fast internet accesses, every computer can be considered as a computational “nearby” resource. The...
Web 2.0 started a paradigm shift concerning content generation. Users spend hours browsing and producing contents to share, most of the times, freely. During these activities, their laptops and home PCs are considerably underused. By combining the amount of idle processing capacity with increasingly fast internet accesses, every computer can be considered as a computational “nearby” resource. The...
Virtualization has rapidly gained popularity affecting multiple levels of computing stack. Since it decouples resources from their users it provides greater flexibility in terms of resource allocation but also brings new challenges for optimal design, provisioning and runtime management of systems. Cloud computing is a paradigm of computing that offers virtualized resources “as a service.” Cloud Managers...
Containing runaway IT costs is one of the top priorities for enterprises. Cloud Computing, with its on-demand provisioning capability on shared resources, has emerged as a new paradigm for managing IT costs. In this paper, we describe a framework to simplify deployment of complex solutions on a Cloud infrastructure. We discuss the concept of a composite appliance and show how it can be used to reduce...
There is often a transient need within enterprises for data cleansing which can be satisfied by offering data cleansing as a transient service. Every time a data cleansing need arises it should be possible to provision hardware, software and staff for accomplishing the task and then dismantling the set up. In this paper we present such a system that uses virtualized hardware and software for data...
With the rapid development of Internet and Cloud computing, there are more and more network resources. Sharing, management and on-demand allocation of network resources are particularly important in Cloud computing. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is one of the key services in Cloud computing. PaaS is very attractive for schools, research institutions and enterprises which need reducing IT costs, improving...
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