The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) is used to deliver real-time content and, along with the RTP Control Protocol (RTCP), forms the control channel between the sender and receiver. However, RTP and RTCP assume a single delivery path between the sender and receiver and make decisions based on the measured characteristics of this single path. Increasingly, endpoints are becoming multi-homed, w...

Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is an experimental protocol currently under standardization in the IETF. MPTCP allows to use multiple TCP connections for one data transmission if at least one of the endpoints is multi-homed. For example, this can be a mobile device with a Wifi and a 3G interface. It is assumed that the paths are disjoint or partly disjoint. As such these paths have different transmission...

Routing complexity of the core network is crucial to Internet scalability. IPv6 is believed to have better performance in multihoming than conventional IPv4. With the depolyment of native IPv6 backbone networks, a new door is opened to a better Internet, empowered by the combination of a well-aggregated IPv6-only core and the fertile application resources which still remain in IPv4 networks. To...

The recessive dystrophic form of epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) is a disorder of incurable skin fragility and blistering caused by mutations in the type VII collagen gene (Col7a1). The absence of type VII collagen production leads to the loss of adhesion at the basement membrane zone due to the absence of anchoring fibrils, which are composed of type VII collagen. We report that wild-type, congen...

Aggregating low-speed WAN links into a higher-speed logical link promises to improve data-transfer rates to collaborating communities of wireless mobile multi-homed devices. Such bandwidth aggregation systems must adapt to link dynamics as the number of links and the channel conditions vary with time due to mobility, power dissipation, and channel interference. A monitoring architecture that ac...

To discover small molecules that modulate hematopoietic cell homing after adoptive transfer, we created a transgenic zebrafish expressing firefly luciferase downstream of the ubiquitin promoter (ubi:luc) to serve as a hematopoietic donor. Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) was used to detect and follow ubi:luc hematopoietic cells that homed to the marrow as early as 1 day post-transplant. BLI was ab...

While the concept of Software Defined Networking (SDN) has seen a rapid deployment within the data centre community, its adoption in telecommunications network has progressed slowly, although the concept has been swiftly adopted by all major telecoms vendors. This paper presents a control plane architecture for SDN-driven converged Metro-Access networks, developed through the DISCUS European FP...

The ability of T and B lymphocytes to migrate into skin allografts undergoing rejection was studied in mice. Spleen cells from CBA/J mice sensitized to transplantation antigens of A/J or C57BL/6 mice were separated on immunabsorbent columns into purified populations of T and B cells, labeled in vitro with 3H-uridine and injected intravenously into CBA/J mice with 7-day old skin iso and allograf...

Aggregating bandwidth from multiple radio access technologies (RATs) provides an opportunity for network providers to enhance network capacity. This is important for serving applications that require more bandwidth than a single RAT can offer. One of the important elements of bandwidth aggregation is the selection of a suitable set of RATs to achieve efficient aggregation. In this paper, we pro...

This study focuses on the mobile video delivery from a video server to a multi-homed client with a network of heterogeneous wireless. Joint Source-Channel Coding is effectively used to transmit video over bandwidth-limited, noisy wireless networks. But most existing JSCC methods only consider single path video transmission of the server and the client network. The problem will become more compl...