The intent of this functional research project is to apply the tools of Trade Area Analysis (TAA) to retail and service sales data for Wisconsin Counties. For this analysis we use the sales tax data as reported by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue for 2004, the most current year the data are available. Only those counties that have elected to collect the optional county sales tax are included...

Body Area Network (BAN) is a sensor network technology for monitoring and logging vital signs of a person, such as cardiac frequency and blood pressure. The main goal of BAN is to make remote monitoring possible. In this paper a group monitoring approach is presented. The work differs from others because the idea is to monitor a group of patients in a hospital or clinic at the same time while h...

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Effectively managing the data generated by Large-area Community driven Sensor Networks (LCSNs) is a new and challenging problem. One important step for managing and querying such sensor network data is to create abstractions of the data in the form of models. These models can then be stored, retrieved, and queried, as required. In our OpenSense project, we advocate an adaptive model-cover drive...

This paper analyzes the SIP-based mobility management behavior within a heterogeneous network interconnecting IEEE 802.11-based wireless local area network (WLAN) and IEEE 802.16-based wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN). Our work focuses on signaling processes, during handoff between 802.11 and 802.16 networks. Particularly, the MAC layer technologies of 802.11 and 802.16 are examined in...

of this project, a hardware monitor is being developed to observe the SAN traffic. This hardware monitor is therefore capable of delivering detailed information about the run-time communication behaviour of applications run on SMiLE clusters. The central part of this monitor consists of a content-addressable counter array managing a small working set of the most recently referenced memory regio...

Among several wireless network scenarios, the in-home environment is one of the more challenging in recent years. In particular, the Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) seems one of the most interesting application scenario as that networks work in small area for delivering multimedia traffic. The IEEE 802.15.3 is the emerging standard for WPAN. This standard is designed to provide low comple...

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This paper describes air interface standards for wireless local area network (LAN), wireless metropolitan area network (MAN), and wireless personal area network (PAN) technology being developed within the IEEE 802 LAN MAN Standards Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). 1 U.S. Government work, not subject to U.S. Copyright. IEEE C802.16-03/03

—This paper explores the next generation of mobile communication system from different perspectives. A user-centric approach to 4G is considered. We envision 4G as a convergence platform where wide-area (cellular) technology, wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) and wireless local area network (WLAN) will coexist and complete. Legacy systems, their evolution as well as newly developed acce...