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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Network usage"”.
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Characterizing university network usage with Active Directory event logs
In this thesis, we investigate a university network that uses Active Directory as its authentication system. We get an understanding of the network by analyzing Windows event logs generated at Active Directory domain controllers. We want to see what network activity looks like as a first step in …
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Generalizing fine-grained message aggregation
… divergence of application behavior from optimal network usage leads to performance bottlenecks induced by communication. Communication performances are known to worsen when dealing with large quantities of small messages, due to the overhead of envelopes and going through the communication stack …
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Understanding the Imaginary Audience and the Personal Fable in a Social Media Environment
… people has necessitated an examination of social network usage among children and adolescents under the auspices of developmental theory. Thus, this research study examined the relationship between Facebook use, customization, and developmental constructs associated with Adolescent Egocentrism; …
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Cyber security risk analysis framework : network traffic anomaly detection
… (IoT), mobile devices, cloud computing, 5G network, and artificial intelligence, the need for cybersecurity is more critical than ever before. These technologies drive the need for tighter cybersecurity implementations, while at the same time act as enablers to provide more advanced security …
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Design and Analysis of Anomaly Detection and Mitigation Schemes for Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Software Defined Network. An Investigation into the Security Vulnerabilities of Software Defined Network and the Design of Efficient Detection and Mitigation Techniques for DDoS Attack using Machine Learning Techniques
Software Defined Networks (SDN) has created great potential and hope to overcome the need for secure, reliable and well managed next generation networks to drive effective service delivery on the go and meet the demand for high data rate and seamless connectivity expected by users. Thus, it is a …
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Implementing technical transitions through schedule-based policy : insights from the Military's Airborne Tactical Network
… constraints, the US Military's Airborne Tactical Network (ATN) is at the onset of a technical transition of their communication hardware and software. While the technical challenges appear to be addressed and agreed upon, the particular challenge lies in navigating the social and organizational …
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Network layer support for overlay networks
Overlay networks are virtual networks formed by cooperating nodes that share an underlying physical network. They represent a flexible and deployable approach for applications to obtain new network semantics without modification of the underlying network, but they suffer from efficiency concerns. …
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A Methodology for Characterization and Performance Analysis of Connection-Based Network Access Technologies
Network administration has become more difficult as the number of Internet users has grown and customer usage patterns have changed over time. Rapidly increasing subscriber bases, data intensive applications (such as streaming audio and video), heavy Web browsing, and large file downloads require …
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Re-feedback: freedom with accountability for causing congestion in a connectionless internetwork
… adding resource accountability to a simplex internetwork such as the Internet, with only necessary but sufficient constraint on freedom. That is, both freedom for applications to evolve new innovative behaviours while still responding responsibly to congestion; and freedom for network providers to …
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SDN-Enabled Data Offloading and Load Balancing In WLAN and Cellular Networks
Networking is an interesting field that is always evolving as new technologies that connect the world are adopted. There are many distinct types of networks, each of which is classified in a different way. One categorization is based on cellular wireless network generations, which have progressed …
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PoT: bridging IoT with phone technology
… IoT systems with the widely available telephone network infrastructure. It repurposes underused home landlines and existing communication servers, weaving them into the IoT fabric. By transforming IoT devices into SIP endpoints within the VoIP ecosystem, users can monitor and interact with these …
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An Elicitation Method for Technology-Assisted Goal Setting: Combating Problematic Social Networks Use as a Case Study.
… using it for various purposes, including social networking and gaming. There is increasing acceptance in the literature of the link between obsessive, compulsive, and excessive usage of social media, e.g. social networks, and the wellbeing of users, whether personal, economic, or social. Despite …
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Privacy-preserving decentralised collaborative applications
… for a typical user. We further estimate that the network activity would cost at least 9.6% of daily battery capacity on a Nexus One using 3G Internet. We explore four optimisations that, in combination, reduce the estimated median data cost to 61 MiB. We also consider the security and privacy …
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Evolutionary combinatorial optimisation for energy storage scheduling, and web-based power systems analysis using PHP
… demand usually calls for reinforcement of the network equipment to handle the new load and network operators sometimes postpone or avoid this reinforcement by using ESS to store electrical energy when network usage is low and release it to be used in the grid during periods of high demand. The …
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Enabling virtualization technologies for enhanced cloud computing
… and lease out resources like CPU, memory, network bandwidth, and storage to clients. For organizations, cloud computing provides the means to offload server infrastructure and obtain resources on demand, which reduces setup costs as well as maintenance overheads. For individuals, cloud …
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Electric power network economics : designing principles for a for-profit independent transmission company and underlying architectures for reliability
… of designing architecture of an electric power network with the emphasis on transmission provision that supports various electricity market structures while ensuring the system wide reliability, following the electric power industry restructuring process. Specifically, the thesis proposes a …
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Communication Middleware for Distributed Hard Real-Time Systems in Java
… Additionally, the evolution of communication networks and paradigms as well as the necessity of demanding processing power and fault tolerance, motivated the interconnection between electronic devices; many of the communications have the possibility of transferring data at a high speed. The …