Due to their advantages and role in the beyond fifth-generation mobile network, free-space optical (FSO) communication systems continue to gain attention. The line-of-sight (LoS) link in FSO communications is fundamen...
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During emergency situations, reliable and fast communication is crucial for an effective response and coordination of recovery and rescue operations. However, regular communication means may not be always available no...
During emergency situations, reliable and fast communication is crucial for an effective response and coordination of recovery and rescue operations. However, regular communication means may not be always available nor reliable. In this scenario, constellations of Low Earth Orbit satellites can offer high bandwidth capabilities with (relatively) low latency, making them ideal for supporting disaster management teams on the ground and complementing (or replacing) terrestrial telecommunication infrastructures. In this context, the use of the recently defined QUIC protocol can provide the possibility to seamlessly switch from ground communication to satellite ones when needed. In this paper, we discuss the case study of satellite communication in an emergency scenario, assessing via a simulation study the benefits achievable by QUIC under varying queuing parameters and congestion control algorithm behavior.
In recent years, the amount of Internet accessible digital audiovisual media files has vastly increased. Therefore the need to describe the media (by way of metadata) has also increased significantly. MPEG-7 (finalize...
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In recent years, the amount of Internet accessible digital audiovisual media files has vastly increased. Therefore the need to describe the media (by way of metadata) has also increased significantly. MPEG-7 (finalized in 2001) provides a comprehensive and rich metadata standard for the description of multimedia content. Unfortunately, a standardized query format does not exist for MPEG-7, or other multimedia metadata. Such a standard would provide for communications between querying clients and databases, supporting cross-modal and cross-media retrieval. The lSO/lEC SC29WG11 committee decided therefore to contribute to this application space by adding such functionality as a new part of the MPEG-7 series of standards. In response to a Call for Proposals, six proposals were submitted. This paper describes the strengths of each proposal as well as the resulting draft standard for the MPEG-7 query format.
Weather and atmospheric patterns are often persistent. The simplest weather forecasting method is the so-called persistence model, which assumes that the future state of a system will be similar (or equal) to the pres...
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The ubiquitous learning is used as a means of supporting teaching processes by means of the use of mobile and wireless communication technologies, sensors and tracking mechanisms / tracking, working together to integr...
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The ubiquitous learning is used as a means of supporting teaching processes by means of the use of mobile and wireless communication technologies, sensors and tracking mechanisms / tracking, working together to integrate students with their environment. The process of clinical learning for nursing students may be the main cause of increased stress on teachers and students, given the problematic nature of the patients. This paper presents an ubiquitous learning system based on active learning methodology that provides context awareness support for nursing courses. An experiment with control and experimental groups with nursing students demonstrates that for theoretical concepts to be successfully transferred into practice, the context of practice needs to be considered.
A fast and adaptive near-field physical optics algorithm is developed for the analysis of general multi-reflector antenna systems. The algorithm is applied to the radiation pattern computation of an extremely large an...
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Architectures for the design of soft real-time systems typically do not facilitate the use of performance tools that will enable a designer to analyse the performance of the system that is being designed. Intercommuni...
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Architectures for the design of soft real-time systems typically do not facilitate the use of performance tools that will enable a designer to analyse the performance of the system that is being designed. Intercommunication data areas, whose behaviours are characterised by interaction protocols, are the building blocks of many soft real-time systems. The interaction protocols are grouped into families depending on their reading/writing functionality. We present two members belonging to the pool family. These components transfer data among tasks without synchronisation in a non-selective manner. In the basic pool model no task has priority over other tasks whereas in the priority pool model writer tasks have non-preemptive priority over reader tasks. Both queueing models are analysed approximately using a decomposition technique. Basic pool modelling is based on single-server and multi-server semaphore queues. Priority pool modelling is inspired on non-preemptive priority classical analysis.
Biological brains can learn, recognize, organize, and re-generate large repertoires of temporal patterns. Here I propose a mechanism of neurodynamical pattern learning and representation, called conceptors, which offe...
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Biological brains can learn, recognize, organize, and re-generate large repertoires of temporal patterns. Here I propose a mechanism of neurodynamical pattern learning and representation, called conceptors, which offers an integrated account of a number of such phenomena and functionalities. It becomes possible to store a large number of temporal patterns in a single recurrent neural network. In the recall process, stored patterns can be morphed and "focussed". Parametric families of patterns can be learnt from a very small number of examples. Stored temporal patterns can be content-addressed in ways that are analog to recalling static patterns in Hopfield networks.
—Computational Intelligence methods for automatic generation of sport training plans in individual sport disciplines have achieved a mature phase. In order to confirm their added value, they have been deployed into p...
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