In acoustic multi-channel equalization techniques, such as complete multi-channel equalization based on the multiple-input/output inverse theorem (MINT), relaxed multi-channel least-squares (RMCLS), and partial multi-channel equalization based on MINT (PMINT), the length of the reshaping filters is generally chosen such that perfect dereverberation can be achieved for perfectly estimated room i...

The Pacific coast of the Tohoku region of Japan experiences repeated tsunamis, with the most recent events having occurred in 1896, 1933, 1960, and 2011. These events have caused large loss of life and damage throughout the coastal region. There is uncertainty about the degree to which seawalls reduce deaths and building damage during tsunamis in Japan. On the one hand they provide physical pro...

Seawalls are sheltering structures used for protecting the coastal regions against wave induced forces. Because of random nature of the wave behavior, application of physical models for the study of wave-structure interaction can be quite efficient. In the present research, physical models of thin flexible walls were constructed and tested in a wave flume subject to generated random waves. The ...

While today’s virtual datacenters have hypervisor based mechanisms to partition compute resources between the tenants co-located on an end host, they provide little control over how tenants share the network. ˆis opens cloud applications to interference from other tenants, resulting in unpredictable performance and exposure to denial of service attacks. ˆis paper explores the design space for a...

A reshaping berm breakwater is a type of rubble mound breakwater in which, its seaward slope is allowed to reshape under wave attacks. There are some key parameters in the reshaped seaward profiles, which can schematize the reshaped profile of a berm breakwater. A total of 412 test results was used directly to cover the impact of sea state conditions and structural parameters on these reshaping...

Traac reshaping and its impact on providing deter-ministic guarantees of timely data delivery in a packet-switched virtual-circuit xed-packet network are investigated. Two types of traac smoothing are considered: global reshaping (when traac on all network connections is smoothed) and local reshaping (when the traac speciication is changed only for a single connection). The conditions when resh...

Energy efficiency has become one of the most important challenges in designing future computing systems. Workload reshaping and prediction have a significant impact on the energy conservation of computer components. In this paper, by using three HTTP traffic traces, we perform various evaluations to explore the possible reasons and indications which impact the workload reshaping. The experiment...