The Japanese distribution system has two distinctive characteristics: too many very small retailers and multiple layers of wholesalers. Up until the present day, these two features have been noted by researchers in Japan as well as other countries. In reality, however, Japan’s distribution system went through a dramatic and historic change known as the “1985 Shock.” This resulted in a decrease ...

As a result of the propagation characteristics of signals in this frequency range, LMDS systems use a cellular-like network architecture, though services provided are fixed, not mobile. In the United States, 1.3 MHz of bandwidth (27.5 B 28.35 GHz, 29.1 B 29.25 GHz, 31.075 B 31.225 GHz, 31 B 31.075 GHz, and 31.225 B 31.3 GHz) has been allocated for LMDS to deliver broadband services in a point-t...

This paper describes KryptoKnight, an authentication and key distribution system that provides facilities for secure communication in any type of network environment. KryptoKnight was designed with the goal of providing network security services with a high degree of com-pactness and exibility. Message compactness of KryptoKnight's protocols allows it to secure communication protocols at any la...

The electric industry has gone through dramatic changes over the past two decades. The restructuring program begun in the early 1990s opened up the wholesale markets with numerous competitive generation companies transacting over open-access transmission systems. New entities called independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs) arose as wholesale market oper...

We describe an architecture for cataloging the characteristics of Internet-accessible resources, for replicating such resources to improve their accessibility, and for registering the current locations of the resources so replicated. Message digests and public-key authentication are used to ensure the integrity of the les provided to users. The service is designed to provide increased functiona...

AC distribution is conventional and its future is now under threat with its major competitor DC distribution. Transformer voltage conversion can be replaced completely by DC-DC converter in DC distribution with voltage and current regulation. DC energy and energy saving as the distribution match well with the recent technology in renewables, energy storage, computer and control electronics, mod...

The goal of this thesis work is to find a distributed solution for the propagation manager of SIES, to improve the throughput and availability of the whole system. SIES is the abbreviation for “Stuttgart Information and Exploration System”. It is an instance of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) in data level in the context of heterogeneous industrial IT infrastructures. Based on the conc...

The digitization of modern cities has brought cities to a new level. There are still many new areas yet to be discovered in this new ecosystem. Today, there is an urgent need for smarter cities to support the growing population. One particular problem is citizens do not know which city department to give their suggestions to. This paper presents a system for distributing suggestions from citize...