Dense clinical data like 3D Computed Tomography (CT) scans can be visualized together with real-time imaging for a number of medical intervention applications. However, it is difficult to provide a fused visualization...
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It is well known that both space and the spatial organization play an important role in our work and learning environments as well as in everyday life. There is a definite need for many persons to design their space a...
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It is well known that both space and the spatial organization play an important role in our work and learning environments as well as in everyday life. There is a definite need for many persons to design their space along with an expert and to preview it in order to test its functionality. Many times there is a need for the inhabitants and workers to collaborate in order to co-design their space from distance. Multi-user 3D virtual environments are a powerful form of collaborative telecommunication applications, enabling the users to share a common three dimensional space and interact with each other as well as with the environment surrounding them, in order to collaboratively solve problems or aid learning processes. This paper presents the work done for extending a multi-user virtual environments platform, to support collaborative spatial design applications. Furthermore, a usage scenario is presented concerning the collaborative design of a classroom for educational purposes.
Wireless sensor networks are comprised of a vast number of ultra-small autonomous computing, communication and sensing devices, with restricted energy and computing capabilities, that co-operate to accomplish a large ...
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In this work we study the combination of multicost routing and variable transmission power in wireless ad-hoc networks. In multicost routing, each link is assigned a cost vector consisting of several parameters. These...
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In this work we study the combination of multicost routing and variable transmission power in wireless ad-hoc networks. In multicost routing, each link is assigned a cost vector consisting of several parameters. These parameters are treated separately and are combined at the end of the algorithm using various optimization functions, corresponding to different routing schemes, for selecting the optimal path. The cost parameters we use are the hop count, the interference caused, the node residual energies, and the node transmission powers. We assume that nodes can use power control to adjust their transmission power to the desired level. The experiments conducted show that the combination of multicost routing and adjustable transmission power can lead to reduced interference and energy consumption, improving network performance and lifetime.
It is more convenient to talk about changes in a domainspecific way than to formulate them at the programming construct level or-even worse-purely lexical level. Using aspect-oriented programming, changes can be modul...
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It is more convenient to talk about changes in a domainspecific way than to formulate them at the programming construct level or-even worse-purely lexical level. Using aspect-oriented programming, changes can be modularized and made reapplicable. In this paper, selected change types in web applications are analyzed. They are expressed in terms of general change types which, in turn, are implemented using aspect-oriented programming. Some of general change types match aspect-oriented design patterns or their combinations.
Data propagation in wireless sensor networks is usually performed as a multihop process. To deliver a single message, the resources of many sensor nodes are used and a lot of energy is spent. Recently, a novel approac...
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Data propagation in wireless sensor networks is usually performed as a multihop process. To deliver a single message, the resources of many sensor nodes are used and a lot of energy is spent. Recently, a novel approach is catching momentum because of important applications; that of having a mobile sink move inside the network area and collects the data with low energy cost. Here we extend this line of research by proposing and evaluating three new protocols. Our protocols are novel in a) investigating the impact of having many mobile sinks; b) in weak models with restricted mobility, proposing and evaluating a mix of static and mobile sinks; and c) proposing a distributed protocol that tends to equally spread the sinks in the network to further improve performance. Our protocols are simple, based on randomization and assume locally obtainable information. We perform an extensive evaluation via simulation; our findings demonstrate that our solutions scale very well with respect to the number of sinks and significantly reduce energy consumption and delivery delay
In this paper, we study the burstification effect on the TCP synchronization and TCP congestion window mechanism. It is shown that short assembly times are optimal for flows with similar characteristics, while large a...
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In this paper, we study the burstification effect on the TCP synchronization and TCP congestion window mechanism. It is shown that short assembly times are optimal for flows with similar characteristics, while large assembly time provide a higher notion of fairness. In addition, this paper analyzes the synchronization of multiple TCP flows when aggregated together over the same optical bursts. It is shown that there is a strong TCP synchronization effect upon burst losses, in the sense that flows’ windows increase/decrease simultaneously, resulting to a significant variation of outgoing traffic. These deficiencies may be dealt with employing a multi-queue burst assembly scheme with different timers and taking into account the TCP dynamics.
This paper proposes a power control scheme for the efficient radio bearer selection in the Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) framework of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). The choice of th...
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This paper proposes a power control scheme for the efficient radio bearer selection in the Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) framework of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). The choice of the most efficient transport channel in terms ofpower consumption is a key point for the MBMS since a wrong transport channel selection for the transmission of the MBMS data could result to a significant decrease in the total capacity of the system. Diferent UMTS transport channels are examined and an algorithm that defines the switching point between dedicated and common radio bearers is proposed The proposed MBMSpower control scheme selects the transport channel that reduces the Node B's transmission power in every cell of the network with multicast users.
In this paper, we present the architectural design of optical burst-buffers that can truly emulate input queuing and accommodate asynchronous burst operation. The architectural design uses wavelength converters and fi...
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In this paper, we present the architectural design of optical burst-buffers that can truly emulate input queuing and accommodate asynchronous burst operation. The architectural design uses wavelength converters and fixed feed-forward delay lines that are combined to form either a multiple-input buffer or a shared buffer. Both schemes are modular, allowing the logarithmic expansion of buffer size with the number of switching elements (wavelength converters).
Future grid networks should be able to provide quality of service (QoS) guarantees to their users. In this work we propose a framework for grid networks that provides deterministic delay guarantees to its guaranteed s...
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Future grid networks should be able to provide quality of service (QoS) guarantees to their users. In this work we propose a framework for grid networks that provides deterministic delay guarantees to its guaranteed service (GS) users and best effort service to its best effort (BE) users. The proposed framework is theoretically and experimentally analyzed. We also define four types of computational resources based on the type of users (GS, BE) these resources serve and the priority they give them. We implement the proposed QoS framework for grids and verify that it not only satisfies the delay guarantees given to GS users, but also improves performance in terms of deadlines missed and resource use. In our simulations, data from a real grid network are used, validating in this way the appropriateness and usefulness of the proposed framework.
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