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Powerful Business Intelligence for the University of Calgary: An IBM Cognos Solution

Located in northwest Calgary, the University of Calgary U of C campus is home to scholars in 16 faculties and 36 research institutes and centers. It needed to consolidate complex and confusing data sources into valuable information for decision-makers. It deployed an IBM Cognos 8 BI system that integrates the...

Tags: Data Source, Cognos Inc., University Of Calgary, IBM Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

Multimedia Application Performance on a WiMAX Network

This paper uses experimental measurements to study the performance of multimedia applications over a commercial IEEE 802.16 WiMAX network. Voice-over-IP VoIP and video streaming RealPlayer applications are tested. The WiMAX-based network solidly supports VoIP, providing adequate quality for short to medium duration calls. The voice quality degradation compared to high-speed...

Tags: Multimedia, VoIP, Performance, Network, University Of Calgary, On-demand Video-streaming, WiMAX, Telephony, Web Site Development, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless And Mobility, Internet

White papers 2008-09-03

Oil-eating microbes produce green energy

It is estimated that oil sands -- or bituminous sands -- represent two thirds of the world's oil reserves. Still, it's expensive and difficult to extract oil from these sands. Even with today's crude oil prices, the industry is still looking for cheaper ways to produce energy from the so-called...

Tags: Oil, Carbon Dioxide, University Of Calgary, Hydrogen, Energy, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-14

Queue Management Strategies to Improve TCP Fairness in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs

Wireless Local Area Networks WLANs based on the IEEE 802.11 technology have become increasingly popular and ubiquitous. The 802.11 standard allows each station in a WLAN equal opportunity to access the wireless channel, which can result in unfair sharing of network bandwidth between upstream and downstream TCP flows at an...

Tags: Strategy, IEEE 802.11, Network, University Of Calgary, WLAN, TCP, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Tcp/Ip, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2007-01-01

Video to Go: The Effects of Mobility on Streaming Media in a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Network

This paper experimentally examines the performance of streaming media applications over a CDMA2000 1xEVDO network. The performance of streaming in a cellular network is tested across three different levels of mobility, two applications, and the two transport layer protocols, TCP and UDP. Findings of this study are that streaming applications...

Tags: University Of Calgary, Mobility, Video, UDP, Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Tcp/Ip, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Networking, Internet, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2007-01-01

An FPGA-Based Network Processor for IP Packet Compression

This paper describes the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of a reconfigurable network processor that can do on-the-fly content adaptation of IP packets for wired or wireless networks. In the demonstration application, FPGA technology is used in conjunction with traditional RISC micro-processors to perform IP packet compression in hard-ware, using...

Tags: Network, University Of Calgary, IP, FPGA, Networking, Network Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2007-01-01

Xerox Canada Makes the Grade at the University of Calgary

University of Calgary's administrators came together and developed a concrete five-year expansion plan that would manage a student enrolment that is expected to increase from 28,000 to 35,000 students by 2010. To accommodate such growth, the University needed to attract additional faculty, and fund capital expansion efforts. Of late, the...

Tags: Xerox Corp., University Of Calgary, Xerox Canada, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Case studies 2006-11-01

Observations on Round-Trip Times of TCP Connections

Knowledge about properties of network traffic can be beneficial when studying network protocols. It enables realistic models of network traffic to be created and evaluations of current protocols to take place. This study examines trends in Round-Trip Times RTTs at a university Web server. Round-trip time is a particularly important...

Tags: Network, Network Traffic, University Of Calgary, TCP, RTT, Tcp/Ip, Networking

White papers 2006-07-28

Computers show how plants grow

Computer scientists in Canada have worked with botanists in Switzerland to build a 3D computer model which simulates how plants grow and develop beautiful shapes. Their model was able to accurately show how plants achieve phyllotaxis, this regular arrangement of lateral organs around a central axis. According to the researchers,...

Tags: computer, University of Calgary

Blog posts 2006-01-25

The Effects of Mobility on Wireless Media Streaming Performance

This paper presents experimental measurements of MPEG-4 media streaming on an IEEE 802.11b WLAN. The paper focuses on delivering multimedia audio and video content from a streaming server on a wired network to mobile clients on a wireless LAN. Experiments are conducted both with and without client mobility, to characterize...

Tags: Performance, Media, University Of Calgary, MPEG-4, Mobility, Experiments, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Video, Digital Media, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

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Simulation Evaluation of Wireless Web Performance in an IEEE 802.11b Classroom Area Network

This paper presents a simulation study of an IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN WLAN used as a classroom area network. The simulation is conducted using OPNET Modeler 9.1. The first part of the paper discusses parameterization and validation of the simulation model, based on empirical measurements in a wireless classroom environment....

Tags: IEEE 802.11, Network, University Of Calgary, WLAN, Wireless Web, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, LANs, Networking

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A Measurement Study of RealMedia Streaming Traffic

With the growing popularity of real-time audio/video streaming applications on the Internet, it is important to study the traffic characteristics of such applications and to understand their implications on network performance. This paper presents a measurement study of RealMedia streaming traffic, where the focus is both on the application-layer view...

Tags: RealNetworks RealMedia, Network, University Of Calgary, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

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Scientists accurately measure the 'edge of space'

The fuzzy point where the earth's atmosphere transitions into space has been detected by an instrument developed by scientists at the University of Calgary with "unprecedented detail". According to the team, space begins 118 km (73.3 miles) above Earth, which confirms what other scientists...

Tags: Earth, Scientist, Kilometer, C/C++, Team Management, Programming Languages, Network Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Networking, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Is the U.S. a broadband leader or laggard?

Back when President Obama was still the President-elect, he made a bold statement about his disappointment with the adoption of broadband in the United States. His quote, to be exact, was: “It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption” But...

Tags: U.S., Leader, Broadband, NYT, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Space Shuttle tech works on brain tumors

A robotic surgeon based on military technology has performed its first brain operation in Canada. The neuroArm was developed as a collaborative effort by the University of Calgary and MacDonald Dettwiler Associates Ltd. MDA, a Vancouver military contractor whose best known device is Canadarm used on the...

Tags: Space Shuttle, Surgeon, Model-driven Architecture, Model Driven Architecture, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Diamond-based quantum computing

Quantum computing is usually associated with extremely low temperatures. Now, physicists at Harvard University have shown that diamonds can be used to create stable quantum computing building blocks at room temperature. A nitrogen vacancy in diamond could lead to quantum registers able to store or retrieve data. One of the...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet

Blog posts 2007-06-01

Identifying Best Practices in Information Technology Project Management

This paper documents Project Management Best Practices specific to the Information Technology sector. The paper is the culmination of research efforts [between January & April 2003] performed by diverse industry practitioners as part of their individual academic pursuits in Project Management, Business Administration, and Continuing Education Graduate Programs at the...

Tags: Best Practice, Information Technology, It Operations, It service Management, Management, PMFORUM, Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques

White papers 2005-03-21