Title of Thesis: IMPLEMENTING AND EVALUATING ALTERNATIVE AIRSPACE RATIONING METHODS Degree candidate: Jason Matthew Burke Degree and year: Master of Science, 2002 Thesis directed by: Professor Michael O. Ball Institute for Systems Research While airport congestion has long been viewed as a major air traffic management problem in the United States, congestion in the en route airspace is drawing ...

In this paper, we introduce a new proactive routing protocol (NPRP) in which a link breakage prediction algorithm is used for the routes selection. The link breakage prediction algorithm is based on the signal power strength. Each mobile node uses signal power strength from the received packets to predict the link breakage time, and sends a warning to the source node of the packet if the link i...

Considering that metro network expansion brings us with more alternative routes, it is attractive to integrate the impacts of routes set and the interdependency among alternative routes on route choice probability into route choice modeling. Therefore, the formulation, estimation and application of a constrained multinomial probit (CMNP) route choice model in the metro network are carried out i...

Ad hoc routing protocols that use broadcast for route discovery may be inefficient if the path between any source-destination pair is frequently broken. We propose and evaluate a simple mechanism that allows fast route repair in on demand ad hoc routing protocols. We apply our proposal to the Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol. The proposed system is based on the Controlle...

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems and as a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) inherits the importance from CM. One type of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this research, a bi-objective ...