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A key aspect of realizing the future smart grid communication solution is a balanced approach between the network performance and the network security during the network deployment. A high security communication flow path is not useful when the network path cannot support capacity and reachability requirements. The deployment phase in communication network can facilitate an optimal network path by...
The Internet is simply a series of worldwide computer networks linked together, communicating almost instantly by using various access technologies. It is playing a major role in many areas of our lives, such as communication, entertainment and information which is supported by newer innovations and technology evolvement. While the broadband Internet penetration rate is encouraging in many countries,...
In this paper, perceived value is used as an intermediate variable to test the impact of Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) on the tourists' decision-making of online travel booking. It builds a conceptual model and carries out empirical research, on the basis of sample investigation, analyzes data by applying the structural equation. The research conclusion shows that the quality and credibility of...
This paper compares the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure between Saudi Arabia and Gulf States universities, the latter consisting of Qatar, Oman, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain. A questionnaire, expert-reviewed and pilot-tested, was used to collect data from ten universities in Saudi Arabia and five in the Gulf States. It covered the perspectives offered by faculty...
E-voting systems have emerged as a powerful technology for improving democracy by reducing election cost, increasing voter participation, and even allowing voters to directly verify the entire election procedure. Prior internet voting systems have single points of failure, which may result in the compromise of availability, voter secrecy, or integrity of the election results. In this paper, we present...
As the Internet becomes an important part of the infrastructure our society depends on, it is crucial to construct networks that are able to work even when part of the network is compromised. This paper presents the first practical intrusion-tolerant network service, targeting high-value applications such as monitoring and control of global clouds and management of critical infrastructure for the...
MobilityFirst (MF), as a realization of Information Centric Network architecture, places intelligent functionality, such as storage and reliability, inside the network to assist with data delivery. The MF architecture requires effective congestion and flow control to efficiently support data delivery at scale. Traditional end-to-end, window-based congestion control like that used by TCP is unsuitable...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the key factors affecting consumer's use behavior on financial products similar to Yu'e Bao. Considering the financial market and policy environment in China, theoretical model is founded based on extending Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and the hypotheses are put forward. Then, to test the model and hypotheses, 199 valid data is...
China and US both have developed online payment services, which have their own features due to the two countries' different culture, policies, and technical features etc. Therefore, it contributes to the great difference in the online payment users' perceptions of their domestic online payment in the two countries. According to previous studies of the technology acceptance model and the diffusion...
With the rapid development of technology, Internet has changed people's lives and online community has become a comprehensive platform for exchanging ideas and shopping. This study develops and tests an environmental psychology model of online impulse purchase. The model captures the moderating effect of search and experience product type on the relationship between the online impulse buying intention...
One of the main goals of multipath TCP (MPTCP) is to achieve higher throughput than regular TCP by utilizing multiple paths simultaneously. When these paths share a common bottleneck, MPTCP tries not to be more aggressive than a regular TCP flow. This is achieved by MPTCP's coupled congestion control mechanism that couples the increase factor of MPTCP's subflows in congestion avoidance. However, slow-start...
Tactile internet requires ultra-low latency and ultrahigh reliability, which bring new challenges to the design of mobile systems. In this paper, we study how much resources are required to ensure the short end-to-end (E2E) delay and high reliability by taking a vehicle communication system as an example, where the E2E delay includes both queueing delay and transmission delay, and the reliability...
It appeared recently that some statistical properties of complex networks like the Internet, the World Wide Web or Peer-to-Peer systems have an important influence on their resilience to failures and attacks. In particular, scale-free networks (i.e. networks with power-law degree distribution) seem much more robust than random networks in case of failures, while they are more sensitive to attacks...
In challenged networks, such as opportunistic networks or Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), due to frequent network partition an end-to-end connection between source and destination may not always be possible due to nodes move unpredictably with high speeds. For such type of networks, traditional routing protocols fails to transmit and also no guarantee on delivery of data to specified destination because...
Communication technologies of the Tactile Internet have to achieve a combination of extremely low latency under high reliability and security constraints. The targeted applications are in the fields of industry automation and transport systems, healthcare, education and gaming. 5G addresses tactile use cases under the term mission-critical machine type communication. We demonstrate a first implementation...
The smart grid (SG) is widely acknowledged asthe new solution to be developed to handle distributed network fighting against the increase of renewable energy. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been extensively recognized as a promising technology that can improve various aspects of electrical models today as smart grid. Hence, WSNs are well suited for applications based on this type of communication...
Internet of things (IoT) or Web of Things (WoT) is a wireless network between smart products or smart things connected to the internet. It is a new and fast developing market which not only connects objects and people but also billions of gadgets and smart devices. With the rapid growth of IoT, there is also a steady increase in security vulnerabilities of the linked objects. For example, a car manufacturer...
Broadband Internet user base is growing at an exponential pace in India. The market pressures are forcing the Internet service providers (ISPs) to sell their service offerings aggressively, resulting in a growing discrepancy between consumer expectations and service offerings from the ISPs. This discrepancy is often evident in experienced vs offered Internet connection service. We study the Quality...
Kaskus.co.id is one of the biggest community site which ranks 1st in Indonesia and 257 positions for the world in 2010. As time went on, many other similar sites with kaskus.co.id that is able to meet the needs of Indonesian social-networking communities such as forum.detik.com. This gives the impact of a decline in the number of access to the site kaskus.co.id and shift its rank. The results of the...
End-to-end communication usually adopts a single path to transmit interactive packets in traditional routing mechanisms, so attackers can easily snoop into the whole communication trace to analyze users' typical features and to predict users' next-behaviors, which can severely decrease the security of users' information. Thus, this paper puts forward a multi-path based link-state routing mechanism,...
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