Satellites play an important role in the future network due to their wide area coverage and for providing connectivity in remote regions of the world. This paper presents the end-to-end quality of service (QoS) measurements taken employing a European Space Agency (ESA) testbed over DVB-RCS infrastructure, in collaboration with University of Surrey, UK. The applications chosen for these experime...

The ability to transfer styles of texts or images, is an important measurement of the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). However, the progress in language style transfer is lagged behind other domains, such as computer vision, mainly because of the lack of parallel data and reliable evaluation metrics. In response to the challenge of lacking parallel data, we explore learning style tr...

We introduce a method by which to locate sensors in a 2.4 GHz wireless network. We tested our system in a rough welding hall, where plasma cutters and welding machines commonly cause radio interference. Indoor positioning is a challenge because standardized GPStype global-positioning technologies are not available. There is therefore a need for extra infrastructure, such as wireless sensors, bu...

Proton transfer reaction-mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) is a spectrometric technique that allows direct injection and analysis of mixtures of volatile compounds. Its coupling with data mining techniques provides a reliable and fast method for the automatic characterization of agroindustrial p w d t d c ©

Multicast networking support is becoming an increasingly important technology area for both commercial and military distributed or group-based applications. The underlying delivery mechanism for IP multicast is presently the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) or raw IP packets. At present, these mechanisms provide a "best effort" delivery service. Best effort implies that IP packets are treated with ...

RELIABLE BULK DATA DISSEMINATION IN SENSOR NETWORKS Leijun Huang, PhD George Mason University, 2007 Dissertation Director: Dr. Sanjeev Setia A wireless sensor network consists of a large number of resource-constrained sensor nodes that are self-organized into a multi-hop network and cooperate on a single task. In many situations, sensor networks need to run for a long time once deployed. When t...

Network architectures built completely on publish and subscribe primitives instead of send and receive, have recently attracted many researchers. Pub/sub paradigm changes the networking completely: end-to-end principle breaks, communication channels become unidirectional, and multicast becomes a norm. Although pub/sub has attracted many, the research has been focusing on the network layer – fun...

Extracting reliable information from a fetal MCG measured before the 24 week of gestation is hampered due to the poor signal-to-noise ratio. Thence, the recorded signals need to be processed in order to separate noise and signal, and need to be displayed in such a way that a reliable diagnosis can be made. No signal processing can be performed without making assumptions on either noise or signa...

The manifold learning algorithms are promising data analysis tools. However, to fit an unseen point in a learned model, the point must be located in the training set, which limits its scalability. In this paper, we discuss how to select landmarks from the data to help locate the test points. Our method is for data on manifolds: the way the landmarks represent the data in the ambient space shoul...

Data streaming over Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTN) is a challenging task considering jointly the specific characterisics of DTN environments, the demanding nature of streaming applications and their wide applicability. Presently, there are not any advanced mechanisms available to support this functionality and typical configurations fail to efficiently transfer data streams. In this paper, we pr...