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Efficiently Monitoring Bandwidth and Latency in IP Networks

Effective monitoring of network utilization and performance indicators is a key enabling technology for proactive and reactive resource management, flexible accounting, and intelligent planning in next-generation IP networks. This paper addresses the challenging problem of efficiently monitoring bandwidth utilization and path latencies in an IP data network. Unlike earlier approaches,...

Tags: Bandwidth, Latency, Network, Monitoring, Kent State University, IP, IP Network, Networking, Network Technology

White papers 2008-01-01

Finding Ethernet-Type Network Topology Is Not Easy

This paper investigates the problem of finding a layer-2 network topology when the information available from SNMP MIB is incomplete. This paper proves that finding a network topology in this case is NP-hard. Further proves that deciding whether the given information defines a unique network topology is a co-NP-hard problem....

Tags: Algorithm, Network Topology, Network, Kent State University, Engineering, Networking

White papers 2007-03-13

Onion Graphs for Focus+Context Views of UML Class Diagrams

The paper introduces the use of onion graphs as a focus+context technique for visualizing large UML class models. The focus area, which can be manually or automatically derived, is visualized using the standard UML notations. The remainder of the model is abstracted context and presented at varying levels of detail...

Tags: Technique, Notation, Onion, Kent State University, UML, Productivity, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-01-01

Additional Resources

Hands on with Outlook Live: universities choose Microsoft over Google

Universities are increasingly moving away from in-house email and communications systems, and moving towards externally hosted systems. While that may have sounded like utter garbage and geek speak, it means universities can't afford or cope with their own email systems, so they're letting Microsoft and Google do it for them...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Will Windows Vista live to die another day?

After spending most of the morning on the phone to a number of UK universities (due to the time difference, many US universities were still sleeping), the general consensus is that Windows 7, when released, will not be the first upgrade they roll out to their networks. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, University, Microsoft Windows Vista, University Of Kent, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Is Google slowly alienating the Microsoft cloud market?

Both Queensland University for Technology QUT and Ohio State University OSU have now signed up to Live@edu, Microsoft's online cloud suite designed for students, including Hotmail, SkyDrive and Workspaces. Over 100,000 students from these two universities are now using Live@edu, after extensive testing resulted...

Tags: Google Inc., Student, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, E-mail Providers, Public Relations, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the future

With the rise of online media, from YouTube to Facebook, WordPress to the New York Times, journalism has expanded over the course of the last decade into a new era. "Journalism" may not be guaranteed work all of the time, but it is most certainly in my eyes one of...

Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Microblogging, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Is It Time to Bench Your Anti-Spam Solution?

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to address the threats facing the school and easily lower the Total Cost of Ownership TCO of the email security solution. The attende will see why schools such as City University of New York, Kent State, Oakland Unified School District, Prince William...

Tags: Anti-spam, Proofpoint Inc., Roi/Tco, Spam, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications

Webcasts 2009-01-01

iGeneration 2008 in review

I started on this blog, a nervous and precarious young man, and remain somewhat a young man. To be honest, I'm surprised I've been here this long, let alone seconded onto another blog. Still, it's been an interesting year and I'll run through some of them in a minute. So...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Post, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-12-18

The depressing future of the Internet

A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...

Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Kent to athletes: No Facebook

In what may become a precedent setting move, Kent State in Ohio has banned its student athletes from placing profiles on Facebook.com, reports Ars Technica. School administrators have been increasingly concerned about how student postings on social networking sites may affect a school's reputation. While all kinds of students...

Tags: Facebook, athlete

Blog posts 2006-06-27

Universities rocked by data breaches

In what can only be called an epidemic of high-profile data security breaches, Ohio University has been hit five times since March 2005, leading to the breach of more than 300,000 student records. The latest theft reveals the precarious state of security at colleges, as institutions attempt to balance the...

Tags: Ohio University

Blog posts 2006-06-27

Honeywell LCD suit targets Apple, others

Honeywell LCD suit targets Apple, othersAnd people keep saying...No one would start the patent war. Given recent history, I'd say they are full of beans...Kodak, Honeywell, ...There's a pattern here. Loser companies which have no products and no future. Since they have no products vulnerable to patent...

Tags: Honeywell International Inc., patent, Apple Inc., LCD, hardware

Discussion threads 2004-10-07