Wireless technology is growing increasingly prevalent in the development of new interfaces for live music performance. However, with a number of different wireless technologies operating in the 2.4 GHz band, there is a high risk of interference and congestion, which has the potential to severely disrupt live performances. With its high transmission power, channel bandwidth and throughput, Wi-Fi...

VoIP applications are getting popular due to their features of low cost and convenience. They have a high business potential over Wi-Fi or 3G network for smartphones applications. One possible barrier to the widespread adoption could be the high power consumption. And this in turn is due to higher CPU utilization introduced by sophisticated encryption algorithms for the sake of security. In thi...

Problems in circuit fan-out reduction motivate the study of constructing various types of weighted trees that are optimal with respect to maximum weighted path length. An upper bound on the maximum weighted path length and an efficient construction algorithm will be presented for trees of degree at most t, along with their implications for circuit fan-out reduction. Key words, optimal weighted ...

Our next application of smoothed analysis is to Pareto curves. We begin by explaining one of several reasons why you should care about the size of Pareto curves: they govern the running time of some interesting algorithms. In the Knapsack problem, the input comprises n items, each with a positive value vi and a positive weight (or size) wi. Also given is a knapsack capacity W . The goal is choo...

This work identifies crucial operating parameters which most significantly influence the jetting performances of piezostack-driven non-contact dispensers. This is achieved through experimental investigation and statistical analysis. After introducing the configuration and operating principle of the piezoelectric jetting dispenser, an experimental setup is constructed in order to test the jettin...

as a distinct socially constructed genre, wedding invitations (wis) offer a fruitful site for investigating how two areas of genre knowledge (i.e., form and content) change over time under the influence of sociocultural forces. through the examination of 100 iranian wis dating from 1970s to the present time, the study investigated the trajectories of change through time within the social semiot...

in a military organization, the role of transportation should be much more strong and strategic character for the organization. in this context, the evaluation of operating ability of transportation and eliminate defects and problems, can help the managers to improve performance and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of transportation in the assigned missions. in this study, a model is p...

The aim of this study is to analyse the relationship between spectral reflectance measurements and the water content of wheat canopies based on the Water Index WI (R900/R970) of Peñuelas et al. (i) and a modified version of this index. For this purpose, reflectance measurements over a full phenological cycle of four wheat canopies using an ASD FieldSpec II spectroradiometer have been performed....