We propose a component based modelling and design strategy for the Neighborhood Discovery Component (NDC) and the Selector of Topology Information to Disseminate Component (STIDC) of proactive ad hoc routing protocols. The NDC design strategy focuses on limiting the detection time and removing time of network good and bad links respectively. The STIDC strategy makes sure that only stable links ...

WHEN U.S. President George W. Bush declared an end to Phase III (Decisive Operations) of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) on 1 May 2003, one could almost hear the global sigh of relief from a world that naively assumed the “hard work” was finished.2 But those in a position to appreciate the complex operational environment understood all too well that the hard work was far from over. Operation Iraq...

power system blackouts have become a serious problem for electric utilities especially in recent years. different forms of system instability have emerged in recent blackouts, such as voltage instability and frequency instability. to counteract each form of system instability, special algorithms have been designed in the protection system, e.g. under frequency load shedding (ufls) and under vol...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1Department of Marine Engineering, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung, 811, Taiwan, ROC Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract The switching signal design for global exponential stability of discrete switched systems with interval time-varying delay and linear fractional perturbations is considered in...