Transport protocols currently in use do not have any explicit support for the compressed video/audio traac over the new high-speed network, 100VG-Any LAN. They do not solve the unbounded jitters for a continuous stream and skew between two synchronized streams problems introduced by the underlying LAN. They also do not provide any QoS guarantees to the applications. The VGAnet Suite provides th...

IEEE 802.11a and ETSI BRAN HiperLAN/2 are evolving standards for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Radio systems of these types will operate at the unlicensed 5GHz bands. When these radio systems operate at the same radio channel in the neighborhood, they will mutually interfere with each other. Data throughput, quality of service levels, and availability will be degraded and unpredictable ...

Algorithm FDMSP (fast distributed mining of sequential patterns) is proposed in order to deal with mining sequential patterns in distributed environment and its properties are analyzed. The algorithm utilizes prefix-projected technique to divide the pattern searching space, utilizes polling site associated with prefix to get a global support, and utilizes local pruning, poll pruning and count p...

The two technologies adopt diametric opposite approaches to QoS issues. ATM acts in a declarative manner – “this is the QoS I would like/require”. LAN protocols describe the QoS in an operational manner – “this is the portion of the system bandwidth I want every 125μs”. These two approaches mean that there is a definite need for a gateway between the two QoS models. Such a gateway is also likel...

The modern research has found a variety of applications and systems with vastly varying requirements and characteristics in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The research has led to materialization of many application specific routing protocols which must be energy-efficient. As a consequence, it is becoming increasingly difficult to discuss the design issues requirements regarding hardware and ...

An induced innovations framework was used to develop and test a model of factors affecting county government's decisions to adopt alternative service delivery methods. Size measures of population and tax base, fiscal measures of tax revenues, the share of tax base in •agriculture and access to human capital were significantly related to county use of innovations. Disciplines Economic Policy | E...