The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in Ind...

Most routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) algorithms for all-optical networks do not consider the potential problem of wavelength reservation confliction, which can happen even if the network is only lightly loaded. In this paper, we propose a new reservation protocol MBR (Markov-based backward reservation) based on Markov modeling of the optical links. Our simulations show that this new pro...

A promising approach to the effective utilization of wavelength division multiplexed networks is to transfer data on an on-demand basis using fast wavelength reservation. Data can then be transferred using the assigned wavelength channel. However, if wavelength reservation fails, the lightpath setup delay, which is defined as the time from when the data–transfer request arises at the source nod...

One of the major problems of deploying Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) in mobile environments is called the advance resource reservation (ARR) problem. Conventional solutions to this problem waste too many network resources and increase the new Quality of Service (QoS) session blocking probability. In this paper, we propose a reservation optimised ARR scheme which constrains the number of ...

With up-coming Quality of Service (QoS) requirements raised by a wide range of communication-intensive, real-time multimedia applications, resource reservation is one of the approaches to satisfy requested QoS. Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) is a well-known signaling protocol for bandwidth reservation in the Internet. However, the current reservation protocols like RSVP do not present the...

In this paper, we introduce a novel reservationbased multiple access protocol for ad hoc networks using directional antennas. First, we investigate the limitations of the extreme reservation schemes, namely omni-directional and directional reservations. We highlight the trade-off between spatial reuse (favors directional reservation) and control/data packet collisions (favors omni-directional r...

Advance Reservation is one possible way to enable resource co-allocation on the Grid. This method requires all the resources to have advance reservation capability as well as coordination protocol support. We employed 2-phased commit protocol as a coordination protocol, which is common in the distributed transaction area, and implemented an Advance Reservation Manager called PluS. PluS works wi...

With up-coming Quality of Service (QoS) requirements raised by a wide range of communicationintensive, real-time multimedia applications, resource reservation is one of the key issues we have to deal with. Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) is a well-known signaling protocol for bandwidth reservation in the Internet. However, there are still some open problems in the Internet resource reserva...

Inspired by the success of reservation systems in airlines industries, and the Connected Vehicle technology supporting vehicular communications, this paper investigated a highway reservation and developed a mathematical optimization formulation to solve the optimal trip scheduling plan for a traffic network. The performance was quantified by total monetary cost of travel time and applicable ear...

Executing complex applications on Grid infrastructures necessitates the guaranteed allocation of multiple resources. Such guarantees are often implemented by means of advance reservations. Reserving resources in advance requires multiple steps – beginning with their description to their actual allocation. In a Grid, a client possesses little knowledge about the future status of resources. Thus,...