In this paper we present a novel framework supporting distributed network management using a self-organizing peer-to-peer over-lay network. The overlay consists of several distributed Network Agents which can perform ...
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In daily life, humans must compensate for the resultant forces arising form interaction with the physical environment. Recent studies have shown that humans can acquire a neural representation of the relation between ...
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(纸本)9781622766468
In daily life, humans must compensate for the resultant forces arising form interaction with the physical environment. Recent studies have shown that humans can acquire a neural representation of the relation between motor command and movement, i.e. learn an internal model of the environment dynamics. The present paper discusses whether humans can identify one side of dynamics from the mixed environment dynamics in the case where humans have experienced either of them.
Whiplash PCR-based methods of biomolecular computation (BMC), while highly-versatile in principle, are well-known to suffer from a simple but serious form of self-poisoning known as back-hybridization. In this work, a...
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(数字)9783540684237
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(纸本)9783540490241
Whiplash PCR-based methods of biomolecular computation (BMC), while highly-versatile in principle, are well-known to suffer from a simple but serious form of self-poisoning known as back-hybridization. In this work, an optimally re-engineered WPCR-based architecture, Displacement Whiplash PCR (DWPCR) is proposed and experimentally validated. DWPCR's new rule protect biostep, which is based on the primer-targeted strand-displacement of back-hybridized hairpins, renders the most recently implemented rule-block of each strand unavailable, abolishing back-hybridization after each round of extension. In addition to attaining a near-ideal efficiency, DWPCR's ability to support isothermal operation at physiological temperatures eliminates the need for thermal cycling, and opens the door for potential biological applications. DWPCR should also be capable of supporting programmable exon shuffling, allowing XWPCR, a proposed method for programmable protein evolution, to more closely imitate natural evolving systems. DWPCR is expected to realize a highly-efficient, versatile platform for routine and efficient massively parallel BMC.
The abundant computing resources available on the Internet has made grid computing over the Internet a viable solution, to scientific problems. The dynamic nature of the Internet necessitates dynamic reconfigurability...
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The abundant computing resources available on the Internet has made grid computing over the Internet a viable solution, to scientific problems. The dynamic nature of the Internet necessitates dynamic reconfigurability of applications to handle failures and varying loads. Most of the existing grid solutions handle reconfigurability to a limited extent. These systems lack appropriate support to handle the failure of key-components, like coordinators, essential for the computational model. We propose a two layered peer-to-peer middleware, Vishwa, to handle reconfiguration of the application in the face of failure and system load. The two-layers, task management layer and reconfiguration layer, are used in conjunction by the applications to adapt and mask node failures. We show that our system is able to handle the failures of the key-components of a computation model. This is demonstrated in the case studies of two computational models, namely bag of tasks and connected problems, with an appropriate example for each
The IEEE 802.11 MAC-protocol, often used in ad-hoc networks, has the tendency to share the capacity equally amongst the active nodes, irrespective of their loads. An inherent drawback of this fair-sharing policy is th...
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In all short-medium term business/market forecasts, the efficient provision of digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) services in mobile systems appears to be of key importance for mobile operators and broadcasters. Se...
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MPLS fast reroute (MPLS-FRR) mechanisms deviate the traffic in case of network failures at the router closest to the outage location to achieve an extremely fast reaction time. We review the one-to-one backup and the ...
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MPLS fast reroute (MPLS-FRR) mechanisms deviate the traffic in case of network failures at the router closest to the outage location to achieve an extremely fast reaction time. We review the one-to-one backup and the facility backup that are options for MPLS-FRR to deviate the traffic via a detour or a bypass around the failed elements, respectively. Basically, the backup paths can take the shortest path that avoids the outage location from the point of local repair to the tail-end router or to the merge point with the primary path. We suggest two simple modifications that lead to a new path layout which can be implemented by one-to-one and by facility backup. We evaluate the backup capacity requirements, the length of the backup paths, and the number of backup paths per primary path in a parametric study regarding the network characteristics. Our proposals save a considerable amount of backup capacity compared to the standard mechanisms. They are suitable for application in practice since they are simple and conform to the standards.
This paper studies load balancing for multipath Internet routing. We focus on hash-based load balancing algorithms that work on the flow level to avoid packet reordering which is detrimental for the throughput of tran...
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This paper studies load balancing for multipath Internet routing. We focus on hash-based load balancing algorithms that work on the flow level to avoid packet reordering which is detrimental for the throughput of transport layer protocols like TCP. We propose a classification of hash-based load balancing algorithms, review existing ones and suggest new ones. Dynamic algorithms can actively react to load imbalances which causes route changes for some flows and thereby again packet reordering. Therefore, we investigate the load balancing accuracy and flow reassignment rate of load balancing algorithms. Our exhaustive simulation experiments show that these performance measures depend significantly on the traffic properties and on the algorithms themselves. As a consequence, our results should be taken into account for the application of load balancing in practice.
Autonomous vehicles seem to be a promising approach to both reducing traffic congestion and improving road safety. However, for such vehicles to coexist safely, they need to coordinate their behaviour to ensure that t...
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Autonomous vehicles seem to be a promising approach to both reducing traffic congestion and improving road safety. However, for such vehicles to coexist safely, they need to coordinate their behaviour to ensure that they do not collide with each other. This coordination is typically based on (wireless) communication between vehicles and needs to satisfy stringent real-time constraints. However, realtime message delivery cannot be guaranteed in dynamic wireless networks which means that existing coordination models that rely on continuous connectivity cannot be employed. In this paper, we present a novel coordination model for autonomous vehicles that does not require continuous real-time connectivity between participants in order to ensure that system safety constraints are not violated. This coordination model builds on a real-time communication model for wireless networks that provides feedback to entities about the state of communication. The coordination model uses this feedback to ensure that vehicles always satisfy safety constraints, by adapting their behaviour when communication is degraded. We show that this model can be used to coordinate vehicles crossing an unsignalised junction
MPLS fast reroute (MPLS-FRR) mechanisms deviate the traffic in case of network failures at the router which is closest to the outage location to achieve an extremely fast reaction time. We review the facility backup t...
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MPLS fast reroute (MPLS-FRR) mechanisms deviate the traffic in case of network failures at the router which is closest to the outage location to achieve an extremely fast reaction time. We review the facility backup that is an option for MPLS-FRR that deviates the traffic via a bypass around the failed elements. Basically, the backup path can take the shortest path that avoids the outage location from the point of local repair to the merge point with the primary path. We suggest two new simple modifications that lead to a new path layout which can be implemented by the facility backup. We evaluate the backup capacity requirements, the length of the backup paths, and the number of backup paths in a parametric study regarding the network characteristics. Our proposals save a considerable amount of backup capacity compared to the standard mechanisms. They are suitable for application in practice since they are simple and conform to the standards
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