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Experimental Triple-Play Service Delivery Using Commodity Wireless LAN Hardware

This paper studies the feasibility of utilizing Wireless Local Area Network WLAN technology to deliver the Triple-Play services (video, voice and data) over a specific system model. Existing protocols are shown to not efficiently manage the wireless channel therefore one proposes a new Triple-Play Time Division Multiple Access (TP-TDMA) Media...

Tags: WLAN, Protocol, Hardware, Wireless, University Of Western Ontario, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Networking

White papers 2008-09-04

SLA Automated Negotiation Manager for Computing Services

Success in today's marketing arena can often depend on companies embracing effective new technologies and integrating them into their business model. In the computing service supply industry, Service Level Agreements SLAs are commonly prepared and signed agreements between the service provider and its customers. SLAs should match business needs of...

Tags: SLA, Negotiation, University Of Western Ontario, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2007-09-27

Employing Intelligent Agents to Automate SLA Creation

Service Level Agreements SLAs are commonly prepared and signed agreements that form the contracts between a service provider and its customers, defining the obligations and liabilities of the parties. Naturally, SLAs should reflect the business needs of both customer and supplier. SLAs are usually formed through either the adoption of...

Tags: SLA, Agent, Intelligent Agent, Agreement, University Of Western Ontario, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2007-01-31

Additional Resources

Why James Bond looks so healthy

According to The Telegraph, shaken martinis might be the secret of Bond's success. In fact, two UK researchers, a psychologist and a chemist, are collaborating with a French bartender to prove that 'shaken, not stirred' martinis are different. They'll show the difference on June 4, 2008, during the Cheltenham Science...

Tags: James Bond, Food & Beverage, Investment, Manufacturing, Finance, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Urban food deserts in major cities

Canadian researchers at the University of Western Ontario have studied the evolution of food deserts in urban areas. Food deserts are areas where people have low or no access to food shops. In other words, they are neighburhoods with low average home incomes and poor access to healthy food. As...

Tags: Supermarket, Food, Food Desert, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-18

The karaoke cure

My kids hate my singing. Whenever I open my voice, in a car or at home, they instantly tell me to zip the lips. They are typical. Professional singers perform much better than the rest of us. We think of singing as audience members,...

Tags: Kid, Telecommunications, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-14