Multi-rate multicast schemes can be broadly classified into two categories. In layered multicast, a video file is transmitted by a base layer, which contains the most important features of the video. Additional layers...
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Multi-rate multicast schemes can be broadly classified into two categories. In layered multicast, a video file is transmitted by a base layer, which contains the most important features of the video. Additional layers, called enhancement layers, contain data that refine the quality of the base layer. In simulcast, the video file is transmitted by replicated layers that contain the same content at different quality. The benefits of layered multicast versus simulcast are still under question, as layered multicast presents higher complexity and more challenging deployment than simulcast. In this paper, two multi-rate multicast control schemes are compared. The layered multicast SMCC congestion control against our proposed solution for simulcast transmission, named ASSP. We compare the two schemes under a controlled simulation environment with the network simulator software (ns-2) by taking into account the evaluation criteria in RFC 5166. The results demonstrate that both SMCC and ASSP are TCP-friendly while SMCC seems to suffers from small oscillations of the transmission rate. In network topologies with low complexity ASSP consumes no more bandwidth than SMCC for the transmission of the different simulcast streams, while being a simpler solution than the more complicated SMCC.
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is a bacterial infection that affects any part of the urinary tract. It can be classified as uncomplicated (patients with urinary tracts that are normal from both structural and functiona...
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Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is a bacterial infection that affects any part of the urinary tract. It can be classified as uncomplicated (patients with urinary tracts that are normal from both structural and functional perspective) and complicated. The treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections is a complex medical task where a number of parameters, tests, symptoms and laboratory results are present. The knowledge of physicians according to the symptoms and clinical measurements are the main point to succeed a diagnosis, suggest a therapeutic treatment and monitoring patient status. This paper presents the results of our investigation on the problem of handling medical knowledge for decision making by using the soft computing technique of fuzzy cognitive maps. The fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) is an efficient technique for modeling and representing experts' knowledge. Due to its easy graphical representation and simulation process the proposed FCM can be used to make the medical knowledge widely available through computer consultation systems.
Multistage Interconnection Networks (MINs) provide efficient communication resources between network components in an appealing cost/performance relation. Consequently, they have been widely used on Internet connectio...
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Multistage Interconnection Networks (MINs) provide efficient communication resources between network components in an appealing cost/performance relation. Consequently, they have been widely used on Internet connections such as ATM and gigabit Ethernet switches, terabit routers as well as for interconnecting parallel systems. In this paper a novel analytical method for providing performance evaluation on MINs is presented under multicast environment. The proposed analysis was applied on various network size MINs constructed by variable buffer-length switching elements (SEs) per network stage, supporting mixed traffic patterns such as unicast and multicast, under various offered loads in uniform traffic conditions. The applied multicasting policy, where a packet is copied and transmitted when only both destination buffers are available has not been considered insofar by former models. This mechanism, which is called "full-multicast" was employed by all SEs using the "cell replication while routing" (CRWR) *** proposed architecture, which is thoroughly analyzed by our novel analytical model, can be also useful in performance study and development of other Internet communication links supporting multicast traffic.
The paper focuses on the visual-auditory method of analysis for utterances of stuttering people. The method can be classified as an intermediate solution which is in between a traditional auditory and automatic method...
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The aim of the Code4Thought project was to deliver a tool supported methodology that would facilitate the evaluation of a software product's quality according toISO/IEC-9126 software engineering quality standard. ...
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The aim of the Code4Thought project was to deliver a tool supported methodology that would facilitate the evaluation of a software product's quality according toISO/IEC-9126 software engineering quality standard. It was a joint collaboration between Dynacomp S.A. and the Laboratory for Graphics, Multimedia and GIS of the department of computer Engineering and informatics of the University of Patras. The Code4thought project focused its research on extending the ISO/IEC-9126standard by employing additional metrics and developing new methods for facilitating system evaluators to define their own set of evaluation attributes. Furthermore, to develop innovative and platform-free methods for the extraction of elements and metrics from source code ***, to design and implement new data mining algorithms tailored for the analysis of software engineering data.
We present in this paper a simulation-based comparison of one of the best known multicast congestion control schemes - TFMCC - against our proposed adaptive smooth multicast protocol (ASMP). ASMP consists of a single-...
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We present in this paper a simulation-based comparison of one of the best known multicast congestion control schemes - TFMCC - against our proposed adaptive smooth multicast protocol (ASMP). ASMP consists of a single-rate multicast congestion control, which takes advantage of the RTCP sender (SR) and receiver reports (RR) in order to adjust the sender's transmission rate in respect of the network conditions. The innovation in ASMP lays in the "smooth" transmission rate, which is TCP-friendly and prevent oscillations. We use an integrated simulation environment named Multi-Evalvid-RA for the evaluation of the two congestion control schemes. Multi-Evalvid-RA provides all the necessary tools to perform simulation studies and assess the video quality by using both network related metrics along with video quality measurements. The performance evaluation results show that ASMP is a very efficient solution for rate adaptive multimedia applications and a serious competitor to well know TFMCC.
To address an aging population, we have been investigating sensor networks for monitoring older adults in their homes. In this paper, we report ongoing work in which passive sensor networks have been installed in 17 a...
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In this study the task scheduling problem in Grid computing environments has been addressed. To resolve the problem a set of Grid Services are defined and implemented conforming to the OGSA standards. The proposed sch...
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In this study the task scheduling problem in Grid computing environments has been addressed. To resolve the problem a set of Grid Services are defined and implemented conforming to the OGSA standards. The proposed scheduling architecture is semantically enhanced and provides the most appropriate assignment of tasks to computing resources, given the current load conditions of each computing resource and the network status. The Ant Colony Optimization algorithm (ACO) was used to effectively assign tasks to computing resources. First experimental results indicate that the proposed framework produces good results in comparison to other well known schemes considered (e.g. round robin).
This paper considers networks consisting of integral input-to-state stable(i ISS) subsystems and addresses the problem of verifying i ISS property of a given ***, we focus on construction of continuously differentiabl...
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This paper considers networks consisting of integral input-to-state stable(i ISS) subsystems and addresses the problem of verifying i ISS property of a given ***, we focus on construction of continuously differentiable Lyapunov functions, and derive a condition ensuring the i ISS of the network comprising n subsystems. Although this approach referred to as the sum-type construction has not yet been reduced to an easily computable condition for general n,the n = 2 case recovers the i ISS small-gain condition for two subsystems developed recently. Next, in the case of n subsystems, using Lipschitz continuous Lyapunov functions,this paper derives a small-gain condition. It is shown that this second approach referred to as the max-type construction fails to offer a Lyapunov function if there exist subsystems which are not input-to-state stable(ISS). The relation between the two formulations is discussed in the case of two ISS subsystems.
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