Quality-of-service (QOS) requirements for applications in high-speed networks are typically speci-ed on an end-to-end basis. Mapping this end-to-end requirement to nodal requirements facilitates providing QOS guarantees and simpliies connection admission. In this paper, we evaluate strategies for local allocation of the end-to-end QOS. A QOS allocation policy is said to perform better than anot...

Rate allocation has become a demanding task in data networks as diversity in users and traffics proliferate. Most commonly used algorithm in end hosts is TCP. This is a loss based scheme therefore it exhibits oscillatory behavior which reduces network performance. Moreover, since the price for all sessions is based on the aggregate throughput, losses that are caused by TCP affect other sessions...

This paper deals with the loss allocation problem of any interconnected power system. In this paper, an attempt is made to minimize the transmission line loss using FACTS controllers. Two most commonly used FACTS controllers; TCSC and STATCOM are utilized here to reduce the loss. The contribution of system generators at a particular operating load has been calculated using power tracing algorit...

Buuer management schemes are needed in shared-memory ATM switches to regulate the sharing of memory among diierent output port queues and among traac classes with diierent loss priorities. Earlier we proposed a single-priority scheme called Dynamic Threshold, in which the maximum permissible queue length is proportional to the unused buuering in the switch. In this paper, we propose and analyze...

We examine a competitive market in which producers and consumers are scattered around the economy, linked by a network with finite capacity, along which the good has to be delivered for consumption. A most prominent example would be the deregulated electric power market. Because of the complexity of transaction across the network, the equilibrium allocation is generally complicated. However, we...

The problem of capacitor allocation for loss reduction in electric distribution systems has been extensively researched over the past several decades. This paper describes the evolution of the research and provides an evaluation of the practicality and accuracy of the capacitor placement algorithms in the literature. The intent of this paper is not to provide a complete survey of all the litera...