Dense servers trade performance at the node level for higher deployment density and lower power consumption as well as the possibility of reduced cost of ownership. System performance and the details of energy consumption for this class of servers, however, are not well understood. In this paper, we describe a research prototype designated as the Super Dense Server (SDS), which was optimized fo...

The development of critical systems is becoming more and more complex. The overall tendency is that development costs raise. In order to cut cost of development, companies are forced to build systems from proven components and larger new systems from smaller older ones. Respective reuse activities involve good number of people, tools and processes along different stages of the development lifec...

Aggregation of individual wavelengths into wavebands for their subsequent switching and routing as a single group is an attractive way for scalable and cost-efficient optical networks. We analyze the implications of this waveband hierarchy for a single optical node by analyzing two issues: the proper selection of waveband sizes and the assignment of wavebands for a limited set of input-output p...

To detect defects in woven fabric a reduced coefficient fabric space is constructed, for which the principal components representing row and column wise data distribution of the training fabric sub images are determined with the help of a novel singular value decomposition based method. The size of this reduced coefficient fabric space is suitably optimized by particle swarm optimization method...

Charlie has been an outstanding mentor, helped to expand my interest in government technology, and is the reason I became involved with this project. I would also like to give a very special thanks to John Weathersby, Executive Director of the Open Source Software Institute and Andy Stein, Director of Information Technology for the City of Newport News, Virginia for their insights, support, can...

Developing a polynomial time algorithm for the minimum cost flow problem has been a long standing open problem. In this paper, we develop one such algorithm that runs in O(min(n 2m log nC, n2m 2 log n)) time, where n is the number of nodes in the network, m is the number of arcs, and C denotes the maximum absolute arc costs if arc costs are integer and 0 otherwise. We first introduce a pseudopo...

Aero engines are extremely reliable machines and operational failures are rare. However, currently great effort is being put into reducing the number of in-flight engine shutdowns, aborted take-offs and flight delays through the use of advanced engine health monitoring technology. This represents a benefit to society through reduced delays, reduced anxiety and reduced cost of ownership of aircr...

Communication networks have to provide a high level of resilience in order to ensure sufficient Quality of Service for mission-critical services. Currently, dedicated 1+1 path protection is implemented in backbone networks to provide the necessary resilience. On the other hand, there are several possible realization strategies for 1+1 path protection functionality (1PPF), utilizing both diversi...

1 Cloud computing is quickly becoming pervasive in today’s globally integrated networks. The cloud offers organizations opportunities to potentially deploy software and data solutions that are accessible through numerous mechanisms, in a multitude of settings, at a reduced cost with increased reliability and scalability. The increasingly pervasive and ubiquitous nature of the cloud creates an e...