Ad-hoc on-demand routing protocols like ZRP establish and maintain routes on-demand. However, the paths established by on-demand protocols, which are optimal during route establishment phase, become sub-optimal over time due to node mobility. In this paper, we propose a Path Establishment Algorithm (PEA) that optimizes the established routes when feasible without incurring extra overhead. By ut...

This paper concerns the optimal allocation of bits to individual video frames when compressing a video sequence, where the average number of bits per frame is given as a prior constraint. The optimization algorithm developed here is suitable for offline compression; it requires multiple passes through the video sequence. We hope to extend this work to the case of online (single-pass) compressio...

background pain control in children is still a therapeutic dilemma. preschool patients are affected from undesirable effects of postoperative pain more than adults. tonsillectomy is associated with a high incidence of postoperative pain, not only complicating the recovery, but also delaying patients discharge. objectives despite employing different surgical and anesthetic strategies in post-ton...

Leave-in-Time is a new rate-based service discipline for packet-switching nodes in a connectionoriented data network. Leave-in-Time provides sessions with upper bounds on end-to-end delay, delay jitter, buffer space requirements, and an upper bound on the probability distribution of endto-end delays. A Leave-in-Time session’s guarantees are completely determined by the dynamic traffic behavior ...