Internet Access To Users Research Articles

Performance analysis of Virtual Mobility Domain scheme vs. IPv6 mobility protocols

The population of mobile users seeking connectivity to the Internet has been growing over the years, spurred by the capabilities of handsets and the increasing rich Internet content and services. Mobility management to enable efficient Internet access for users on the move is thus gaining significance. IETF has standardized several protocols such as Mobile IPv6, Hierarchical Mobile IPv6, and Proxy Mobile IPv6 to provide mobility management on the IP network. With future Internet design initiatives gaining momentum, it is important that these initiatives consider mobility management as an integral part of the design. In this article, we introduce the concept of Virtual Mobility Domain and describe the main features and key strengths of Virtual Mobility Domain that are designed to provide mobility management in a newly proposed tiered Internet architecture. Instead of IP addressing, the proposed Virtual Mobility Domain uses a tiered-addressing scheme to identify a mobile node with a single address regardless of its location. The tiered addressing provides a dynamic address length which brings less signaling overhead and scalable management. We also propose a collaborative network-based mobility management mechanism to provide low-latency handoffs and less processing-overhead on the mobile node compared to the IPv6-based protocols. The proposed mobility scheme unifies inter and intra-domain mobility management by introducing common anchor cloud concept which provides a distributed management and seamless mobility experience. We present comparative qualitative and quantitative performance analysis of Virtual Mobility Domain and aforementioned IPv6-based mobility protocols for Intra-AS roaming support. We examine handoff latency and signaling overhead performance of each protocol based on numerical results retrieved from analytical models and OPNET modeler based simulations. The results from a comparative performance study show the potential for more efficient mobility management under the proposed Internet architecture.

Using cloud technologies in the course "Fundamentals of electronic document management"

Human needs and individual requirements are constantly evolving, which leads to a constant evolution of the information and communication technology industry. The constant increase in the amount of software for different purposes and the need to use more and more computing resources has led to the emergence of a new technology that gives Internet users access to computer server resources and the use of software as an online service. Such technologies were called cloud technologies.In parallel, there is a rapid growth in the volume of information used in the management activities of the institution, its structural complexity and rapid updatability makes it necessary to use integrated electronic document management systems.

PENCATATAN DAN PEMISAHAN DATA LOG PROXY SERVER KE DALAM DATABASE MENGGUNAKAN MODEL OTOMATA MESIN TURING DI STMIK PPKIA PRADNYA PARAMITA MALANG

Development of the Internet has brought a significant impact on human life. To share Internet resources and anticipated adverse effects and the convenience of Internet users is necessary to control Internet access. One of them is by installing a squid proxy server. To be able to help improve the ability of the proxy server can be done by analyzing the log proxy server, because the record contains a record of user's Internet access. But to be able to do further analysis is necessary to re-record data on the proxy log into a database. This is caused by the proxy server log file is recorded in a text file squensial so hard to do an analysis of the data. Needed a method to read and analyze the log file and the method can be used is the Turing machine model of automata. Turing machine is a deterministic finite state machine that has two-way tape. In the process of recording into the database, performed the separation of the information contained in the proxy log files. Separation is performed by the analysis of the proxy log file will be used for various controls such as site access, and who has access and others. Such information can be poured into a website, so that individuals who use Internet resources in a network can mutually control each other. Key words: Listing, Proxy Server, automata, and proxy server log

A key log Mining Technique to analyze web usage access pattern in an Organization for Internet access Security

One of the most comprehensive way of providing security to internet access is through firewall. Firewall is a mechanism which allows rule based internet access. Certain sites can be blocked, few sites can be allowed and few sites can be given restricted access through internet security. But internet is ever evolving. New sites come in everyday. It makes the firewall managers and Network administrator’s Job very difficult to manage and restrict sites. In large corporate IP address based logging is enabled to view the sites the employees are accessing. One of the security policies includes logging of packets from which important information can be gathered regarding the type of sites or the contents accessed by the user. This technique has certain disadvantage in a sense that the information propagated are packet based and can only trace the files that are accessed through the internet infrastructure of the organization. There are several bypasses that can be designed to overcome this system for example the user may use an alternative internet access gateway like one through GPRS which entirely bypass the LAN logger or the firewall. This may also include data extraction through wireless interface like Bluetooth or wifi. Assuming the fact that personal data access is not allowed in such a corporate environment we propose a unique technique for accessing the internet activity of the user by logging the keystrokes and further extracting meaningful information from the logs. As user presses keyboard or mouse keys, it is logged by generating an interrupt to the kernel as a background process. The logged data is encrypted using RC4 cryptosystem with an administrative password. The log files are decrypted periodically and data is analyzed using data mining technique to get an overview of the activities of the user. The process is a background process and log files cannot be manipulated like that of internet access log. Hence the method is secured, efficient and well suited for pattern extraction from user internet access. Keywords: component; formatting; style; styling; insert (Minimum 5 to 8 key words)

A Hybrid Mesh Routing protocol for ubiquitous internet connectivity in hierarchical Wireless Mesh Networks

We propose a cross-layer-aware Hybrid Mesh Routing (HMR) protocol for the ubiquitous Internet connectivity in hierarchical Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) that can provide the Internet access for users by mesh routers. The HMR protocol applies two independent routing metrics to obtain high performance. The HMR is able to take advantage of each of those protocols strengths depending on the situation, and more suitable than other protocols in hierarchical hybrid WMNs by providing the benefits of both hop count and link quality metrics. Through simulations, we show that our schemes perform better than existing mechanisms in terms of various performance measures.

Concepto y aplicaciones de la Web 3.0: una introducción para médicos

The development of the Internet is continuous and appears to be never-ending, although with the arrival of Web 3.0 it could be said that the Internet is what its creators intended it to be from the first moment, an extraordinary and immense organised, understandable, and easy to access data base, characteristics still not achieved. The innovations and services included in Web 3.0 will result, in the first place, in better, faster and safer access to quality information. In the second place it should provide better personalisation of the health services that Internet users access, avoiding irrelevant information that may contain wrong, false and dangerous recommendations. However, these changes will have to be accompanied by the legal requirements common to the information society, by the ethical aspects associated with medical care, guaranteeing and contributing, in all cases, to improving the doctor-patient relationship.

Analysis of Recent Amendments to the EC Telecoms Package: Do They Provide a Legal Basis in Europe for 'Three Strikes and You're Out' Anti Filesharing Laws?

The authors were asked to comment as legal experts upon the proposed amendments to a set of key EU Directives governing telecommunications and related services, and known as the In particular we were asked to clarify whether its provisions might by stealth give legal grounding to national measures, such as the law recently proposed by Sarkozy in France, which permit summary disconnection of a user's Internet access, without initial recourse to a court, in response to allegations of infringement of copyright (ie, file-sharing and downloading of copyright music and movies). Such measures have been popularly referred to as 'graduated response' or 'three strikes and out' and have already been condemned by the European Parliament as in breach of fundamental freedoms and due process rights..On the basis of our analysis, we argue that it is clear that the package does, or at least can, provide a mandatory basis for the warnings part of a French-style connection sanctions law (the strikes) (see para 12 of brief), and also potentially provides a means by which public CSPs (ISPs and the like) can be compelled by the national regulator to work with rightsholders to implement a disconnection scheme (promoting cooperation) - the you're out - see para 19 of brief. Furthermore, crucial safeguards for due process and orther fundamental rights such as privacy and freedon of expression, inserted into the text by the European Parliament, have been deleted by the Council of Ministers, and are still the subject of horse trading among political interests at time of writing.Finally we identify other threats to human rights which might possibly emerge from the text in its current state of ambiguity ; including the threat of sanctions such as traffic slowing and filtering imposed by ISPs, also without due court process; and the possibility of unlimited length of time retention of traffic data by ISPs and telcos, under the figleaf of network security.The political process of the Telecoms Package is not yet concluded as of this brief's publication on 12 November 2008; this brief is being published now to assist legislators and lobbyists in focusing on what are (and are not) the true potential threats to justice and human rights in the Package. Good European law cannot be made when sectoral agendas are hidden within nested sets of amendments, obscure definitions by reference, and overly wide and vague terminology. The purpose of this brief has been to open up these obfuscated agendas to the light of day.

S@tMax—A space-based system enabling mobile IP applications in vehicles

As personal mobility increases, people spend more time in their vehicles. Furthermore, a large segment of today's workforce is part of a growing mobile service industry. This mobile society creates opportunities to increase productivity which do not yet exist. Today's commuting time could be better utilized and mobile business transactions could be more efficiently conducted, by integrating mobile IP wireless services in vehicles. By means of a direct to mobile user Internet access, and total IP services, integrated into automobiles, S@tMax services can empower the mobile business movement therefore improving productivity. This paper presents a commercial system architecture that will deliver an optimized solution for direct to mobile user Internet access, through an integration of a ground based network infrastructure, use of existing communications satellites and the development of a proprietary satellite system. As a result of a detailed systems engineering process, the architectures of the space, ground and infrastructures segments will be presented. Furthermore, the benefits of on-orbit servicing were examined in the S@tMax context. The approach proposed is considered as an important step towards enforcing main roadway IP coverage in the US, for near-continuous communications and services.

Cooperative Virtual Libraries: training librarians and editors via the Internet

The development of virtual libraries that offer Internet users access to full-text documents requires the teamwork of librarians, editors and webmasters. This paper proposes the option of cooperative virtual libraries and describes how the Latin American Social Science Council (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales – CLACSO) organized a distance training course via the Internet for a group of librarians and editors of eighteen countries of Latin American and the Caribbean, pointing out the factors that must be considered for the organization of courses via the Internet.

SLATER AND ZIMMERMAN RESPOND

We appreciate Melnick’s kind letter regarding our study of Web site listings in response to common health queries, and we appreciate as well the opportunity it affords to elaborate on some of the significant problems and opportunities afforded by the Internet. Recent surveys indicate that between 40% and 80% of adult American Internet users access health information on the Internet.1,2 The Internet has already influenced the provider–patient relationship, as patients arrive armed with information or misinformation from Internet sources.3 In such clinical contexts, trained medical personnel have the opportunity to help consumers interpret the information they have received. More worrisome, as Melnick suggests, is the prospect of consumer decisions regarding lifestyle, diet, supplements, and treatment being made on the basis of information from problematic Internet sites. For example, we found in a pilot study that even people with graduate-level scientific training may find superficially plausible pseudoscientific health claims persuasive and that the presence or absence of citations for such claims may make little difference.4 The Internet offers the public health community an unprecedented opportunity to cultivate informed and knowledgeable health consumers. The Internet also poses a significant challenge: inaccurate, self-interested, misleading, or outdated information may be as accessible and as superficially credible to lay consumers as is science-based medical knowledge. Finding ways to direct health consumers to credible Internet sources, working to increase consumers’ ability to assess the credibility of health information they do find on the Internet, and striving to make existing credible, objective sources more accessible and appealing to the consumer should be increasingly pressing public health priorities, as reflected in Healthy People 2010 objectives.5

Quality of service issues in Internet Web services

A large fraction of Internet users access network resources through Web clients/browsers. The quality of service (QoS) experienced by their Internet users has gained great importance in recent years. Furthermore, new Web applications require the delivery of multimedia data in real time (e.g., streaming stored video and audio) and information transfer through the Internet is becoming one of the principal paradigms for business: electronic sales, banking, finance, collaborative work are a few examples of this. The QoS perceived by its users is thus becoming a dominant factor for the success of an Internet-based Web service. The principal QoS attributes users perceive include those related to the service "responsiveness", i.e., the service availability and timeliness.

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Thinternet: life at the end of a tether

As the Internet continues its exponential growth, the user profile is changing. Many of the newer Internet hosts are personal workstations, often connected by dial-up or other slow links. We examine some factors that motivate or mandate “thin” (low-bandwidth) connections to the Internet. We notice that the motivation for adopting thin links in the West can be different from those in developing countries. Using a profile of such typical users, we show how techniques exist that allow practical and adequately efficient use of the Internet even “at the end of a tether”. We are exploring the use of these methods in routine Internet use from a site in India (a software development laboratory, multi-user LAN, connected to an Internet service provider through an expensive dial-up link) and from mobile computers (e.g., HP100LX and Gateway Handbook) in the US. In each case the user's Internet access is through a thin link, with a bandwidth somewhere between 2400 bps and 28.8 kbps. Local caching and prefetching of resources naturally suggests itself as a useful candidate. It appears that transparent replay of application protocols is a practical way to retrofit resource caching into existing (shrinkwrapped) software. One promising method which works with most services of interest is Postel spoofing. Given the “browsing” mode of network usage, progressive encoding mechanisms are shown to effectively reduce the access time for particularly large Internet objects, such as Web pages. An ideal progressive encoding of a resource sends a gross quality rendering followed by successive refinements. Since only a fraction of the images retrieved in a session actually have long-term value, such techniques can reduce on-line bandwidth demands by an order of magnitude. Obviously, such encoding methods apply also to large archive and distribution files (such as from FTP archives). Filtering and relevance feedback have been recognised as effective tools in overcoming information overload. Many sophisticated general techniques are a subject of active research. However, we found that exploiting certain behaviour patterns typical in Internet usage permits particularly efficient filtering using surprisingly simple methods. We apply this to USENET communication, and extend this to other services (FTP, HTTP, Gopher, mail, etc.), and outline a method of filtering network hypermedia on the basis of relevance contours. Our method recognises the amount of selected information that can be digested by a user in a day, and maximises the value of the packet so selected. It also differs from others by integrating all network hypermedia and selecting and filtering items without regard to the service they were accessed from (USENET, Web, Gopher, FTP, etc.). It does not depend on a-priori categorisation such as news groups and the consequent need for explicit subscription and unsubscription.