The purpose of this document is to define a framework for an Access Node Control Mechanism between a Network Access Server (NAS) and an Access Node (e.g., a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM)) in a multi-service reference architecture in order to perform operations related to service, quality of service, and subscribers. The Access Node Control Mechanism will ensure that the tra...

Channel state information at transmitters is important for advanced transmission schemes. However, feedback and transmission control delays of multiple milliseconds in LTE systems result in severe outdating of this information at vehicular velocities. Channel prediction based on extrapolation of the short-term fading is inadequate in LTE systems at vehicular velocities and high carrier frequenc...

In recent years, broadband access has become the norm in the Internet world. As of now, not much has been said about the behavior of traffic on these access networks. Also, the common assumption has been that the traffic behavior on one broadband access network is not very different from another. In this paper, we present an analysis of TCP/IP traffic data that has been collected from two broad...

We study probabilistic on-line simulators for several machine models (or memory structures). The simulators have a more constrained access to data than the virtual machines, but are allowed to use probabilistic means to improve average access time. We show that in many cases coin tosses can not make up for inadequate access.