Interconnect shielding is used in VLSI designs to avoid noise interference from the cross-coupling capacitance between adjacent signals. This paper takes advantage of the shields already present in the design and uses them to tune the propagation delay of the clock signals, thus eliminating expensive dedicated delay buffers. The problem of obtaining the desired delay at a minimum shielding cost...

This paper focuses on a paced genetic regulatory small-world network with time-delayed coupling. How the dynamical behaviors including temporal resonance and spatial synchronization evolve under the influence of time-delay and connection topology is explored through numerical simulations. We reveal the phenomenon of delay-induced resonance when the network topology is fixed. For a fixed time-de...

Resource allocation techniques have recently appeared as a widely recognized feature in LTE networks. Most of existing approaches in resource allocation focus on maximizing network’s utility functions. The great potential of utility function in improving resource allocation and enhancing fairness and mean opinion score (MOS) indexes has attracted large efforts over the last few years. In this p...