This paper describes air interface standards for wireless local area network (LAN), wireless metropolitan area network (MAN), and wireless personal area network (PAN) technology being developed within the IEEE 802 LAN MAN Standards Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). 1 U.S. Government work, not subject to U.S. Copyright. IEEE C802.16-03/03

—This paper explores the next generation of mobile communication system from different perspectives. A user-centric approach to 4G is considered. We envision 4G as a convergence platform where wide-area (cellular) technology, wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) and wireless local area network (WLAN) will coexist and complete. Legacy systems, their evolution as well as newly developed acce...

This article examines the problem of visual area coverage by a network of Mobile Aerial Agents (MAAs). Each MAA is assumed to be equipped with a downwards facing camera with a conical field of view which covers all points within a circle on the ground. The diameter of that circle is proportional to the altitude of the MAA, whereas the quality of the covered area decreases with the altitude. A d...

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) findet man zunehmend als Trägersystem für die mobile Kommunikation mit Notebooks und Handhelds im Campusbereich und darüber hinaus. In diesem Tutorium werden die typischen Einsatzszenarien von WLANs vorgestellt, wobei auch ein Blick auf verwandte Technologien und Alternativen nicht fehlt. Die WLAN-Funktionsprinzipien werden an Hand der verbreiteten Standards ...

The species-area relationship (SAR) gives a quantitative description of the increasing number of species in a community with increasing area of habitat. In conservation, SARs have been used to predict the number of extinctions when the area of habitat is reduced. Such predictions are most needed for landscapes rather than for individual habitat fragments, but SAR-based predictions of extinction...

We give a new combinatorial proof of the well known result that the dinv of an (m,n)-Dyck path is equal to the area of its sweep map image. The first proof of this remarkable identity for co-prime (m,n) is due to Loehr and Warrington. There is also a second proof (in the co-prime case) due to Gorsky and Mazin and a third proof due to Mazin.

This paper is a survey of memory hierarchy optimizations and bit-level optimization, and is submitted in partial fulfillment of the doctoral candidacy requirements. ∗Dept. of Computer Sciences, Florida State University, [email protected]