Abstract: The Extensible Markup Language (XML) has been acknowledge as the defacto standard for data exchange over the web and data representation. But on the other hand its main drawback that of being huge in size. The huge document size means that the amount of information has to be stored, transmitted, and queried is often larger than that of other data formats. Several XML compression techniques have been introduced to deal with these problems. In this paper, we present an experimental study of available XML compression techniques and we provide guidelines for users for making an effective decision towards selecting the most suitable XML compression tool according their needs.

• Publication Date: 09-Jul-2012
• DOI: 10.15224/978-981-07-2950-9-9361
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Abstract: Smart Homes, alias for the Automated Home, brings practical value by enabling greater convenience, comfort, safety, security and reduces operating costs. The residents can control many aspects of the home from anywhere at an time such as lighting, home appliances and entertainment by using home networking. This paper will briefly survey the various types of home networking technologies (either the wired or wireless technologies such as power line, phone line, Ultra Wide Band (UWB), and spread spectrum (SS)). The paper will critically analyse these techniques showing their advantages and shortcomings as well as how to use them to implement and control the different house appliances.

• Publication Date: 09-Jul-2012
• DOI: 10.15224/978-981-07-2950-9-9365
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