With the ability of simultaneous transmissions, multi-channel multi-interface wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged with great potential in the improvement of network throughput and fairness. However, most proposed channel assignment algorithms for WMNs made an assumption that the network interface cards (NICs) are evenly assigned to the mesh routers. In this paper, we investigate the prob...

High-bandwidth TCP/IP networking places a significant burden on end hosts. We argue that this issue should be addressed by integrating simple network interface controllers (NICs) more closely with host CPUs, not by pushing additional computation out to the NICs. We present a simple integrated NIC design (SINIC) that is significantly less complex and more flexible than a conventional DMA-descrip...

Zero-knowledge protocols are often studied through specific problems, like GRAPH-ISOMORPHISM. In many cases this approach prevents an important level of abstraction and leads to limited results, whereas in fact the constructions apply to a wide variety of problems. We propose to address this issue with a formal framework of non-interactive instance-dependent commitment schemes (NIC). We define ...

The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the requirements, the design and the implementation of an efficient software interface for the Extoll NIC. The resulting software is called Extoll Software Stack (ESS). The design of the ESS should be efficient and exploit the maximum performance that will be offered by the Extoll NIC. The software interface should be clear and intuitive. An important poin...

The continuing advances in the performance of network servers make it essential for netw interface cards (NICs) to provide more sophisticated services and data processing. Mod network interfaces provide fixed functionality and are optimized for sending and receiving la packets. One of the key challenges for researchers is to find effective ways to investigate no architectures for these new serv...

DOI:10.1097/HJH.0b013e32835c552c F or the second time, the New Investigators’ Symposium of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) was fully initiated, organized and executed by the ISH Fellows, New Investigators and the New Investigator Committee (NIC); with outstanding support of the ISH President (Stephen Harrap), Officer at Large (Bo Carlberg) and ISH Secretariat [1–3]. The symposiu...

Between July 2003 and December 2007, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) introduced a national home telehealth program, Care Coordination/Home Telehealth (CCHT). Its purpose was to coordinate the care of veteran patients with chronic conditions and avoid their unnecessary admission to long-term institutional care. Demographic changes in the veteran population necessitate VHA increase its n...

The mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus (MD) is a rich source of afferents to the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Dysfunctions in the thalamo-prefrontal connections can impair networks implicated in working memory, some of which are affected in Alzheimer disease and schizophrenia. Considering the importance of the cholinergic system to cortical functioning, our study aimed to investigate the e...

The 21st century emergence of genomic medicine is shifting the paradigm in biomedical science from the population phenotype to the individual genotype. In characterizing the biology of disease and health disparities in population genetics, human populations are often defined by the most common alleles in the group. This definition poses difficulties when categorizing individuals in the populati...