An important QoS factor for wireless network planning is delay. We should provide enough resources (bandwidth) for conveying the traffic load. Next generation wireless networks is going to be an all IP network. In this path, voice will be changed to packet. In this paper we introduce a queuing model and a radio resource management algorithm which maximize the system throughput (users), then com...

Mobile software agents are becoming increasingly more and more popular. To be widely used, mobile agents require a specific infrastructure that supports naming, resolving names to IP addresses, docking stations to suspend agents sent to machines that are off-line, and authentication. This paper describes the Agent Naming System, ANS, which provides all these necessary facilities. We are plannin...

A critical aspect of long-term open-pit mine planning consists in computing a production schedule based upon a block sequencing strategy. Such a schedule should specify when and if blocks should be extracted in such a way as to maximize NPV, while satisfying wall-slope and production capacity constraints. It is well known that this problem can be modeled with integer programming (IP). However, ...

Improving IP control plane (routing) robustness is critical to the creation of reliable and stable IP services. Yet very few tools exist for effective IP route monitoring and management. We describe the architecture, design and deployment of a monitoring system for OSPF, an IP intradomain routing protocol in wide use. The architecture has three components, separating the capture of raw LSAs (Li...