Abstract: According to an example, a receiver having a physical (PHY) layer may receive a portion of a frame from a transmitter, in which the portion of the frame comprises information available at the PHY layer. A signature of the transmitter may be determined based upon the information available at the PHY layer and a hardware component in the PHY layer may determine whether to continue to receive the frame based upon the determined signature of the transmitter.

Abstract: A system (100) includes a portability manager (160) to provide portability instructions to specify a change in deployment of a given application (110) on a cloud infrastructure (130). A deployment manager (120) controls deployment or lifecycle management of the given application (110) on the cloud infrastructure (130) in response to the portability instructions and based on matching cloud infrastructure resources to application requirements for the given application (110).

Abstract: Example embodiments relate to providing a flexible data format for database management systems. In example embodiments, a query command to access a plastic table in a database is received, where the plastic table is a combination of at least two component sub-tables. The query command is executed to join the component sub-tables in the plastic table by using an AScan operator to obtain datarows from each of the component sub-tables, where the AScan operator converts an end of file (EOF) value to a null datarow that comprises null values, and joining the datarows obtained from the AScan operator to create query results for the query command.