The proliferation of sophisticated web technologies requires efficient tools to evaluate the performance of HTTP traffic under various conditions. In this paper, we present HTTP-Automated Evaluation (HTTP-AE) as a multi-user client-side framework for evaluating HTTP performance. The framework can be used to evaluate mechanisms, which improve HTTP performance. We present several case studies in ...

In this paper, we consider a formation keeping problem for a satellite formation flying system. The relative motion dynamics is designed with polytopic uncertainties by considering elliptical reference orbit, noncoplarnar formation and unknown angular rate, angular acceleration within some boundary. We propose a composite nonlinear feedback control law obtained by the solution to an algebraic R...

Broadband satellites enable Internet access for remote communities and niche markets such as ships and airplanes. However, their inherent characteristics, such as long delays and limited resources, significantly degrade the enduser’s web browsing quality-of-experience. In this paper, we propose a novel HTTP Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) that accelerates web-browsing and improves the utiliza...

We explore the prospects for using future supernova observations to probe the dark energy. We focus on quintessence, an evolving scalar field that has been suggested as a candidate for the dark energy. After simulating the observations that would be expected from the proposed SuperNova / Acceleration Probe satellite (SNAP), we investigate two methods for extracting information about quintessenc...

Stochastic acceleration of electrons and protons by waves propagating parallel to the large scale magnetic fields of magnetized plasmas is studied with emphasis on the feasibility of accelerating particles from a thermal background to relativistic energies and with the aim of determining the relative acceleration of the two species in one source. In general, the stochastic acceleration by these...

The solution of the non-linear diffusive shock acceleration problem, where the pressure of the non-thermal population is sufficient to modify the shock hydrodynamics, is widely recognized as a key to understanding particle acceleration in a variety of astrophysical environments. We have developed a Monte Carlo technique for self-consistently calculating the hydrodynamic structure of oblique, st...

BACKGROUND In recent years, there has been a great interest in analyzing upper-limb kinematics. Inertial measurement with mobile phones is a convenient and portable analysis method for studying humerus kinematics in terms of angular mobility and linear acceleration. OBJECTIVE The aim of this analysis was to study upper-limb kinematics via mobile phones through six physical properties that cor...

in this paper, chebyshev acceleration technique is used to solve the fuzzy linear system (fls). this method is discussed in details and followed by summary of some other acceleration techniques. moreover, we show that in some situations that the methods such as jacobi, gauss-sidel, sor and conjugate gradient is divergent, our proposed method is applicable and the acquired results are illustrate...

The effects of seat-back angle and accelerometer height at the seat-back on seat-back x-axis frequency-weighted root-mean-square (r.m.s.) acceleration have been investigated in field experiments. Experiment 1 investigated the range and variability, of frequency-weighted r.m.s. acceleration at the same measurement position, where the seat-back angle was 24 degrees from vertical on the floor and ...