Oil production optimization is one of the main targets of reservoir management. Smart well technology gives the ability of real time oil production optimization. Although this technology has many advantages; optimum adjustment or sizing of corresponding valves is still an issue to be solved. In this research, optimum port sizing of inflow control devices (ICDs) which are passive control valves ...

Network security analysts are confronted with numerous ambiguities when interpreting alerts produced by security devices. Even with the increased accuracy of these tools, analysts still have to sort through a tremendous number of potential security events in order to maintain the desired level of assurance. This paper describes how passive network discovery and persistent monitoring can provide...

A wireless sensor network is a set of miniature nodes that consume little energy and route information to a base station. It will enable reliable monitoring of a wide variety of phenomena for civilian, military and medical applications. Almost any sensor network application requires some form of self-organisation to route information. Recent years many protocols for network self-organization an...

This paper examines social network size in contemporary Western society based on the exchange of Christmas cards. Maximum network size averaged 153.5 individuals, with a mean network size of 124.9 for those individuals explicitly contacted; these values are remarkably close to the group size of 150 predicted for humans on the basis of the size of their neocortex. Age, household type, and the re...

This paper examines social network size in contemporary Western society based on the exchange of Christmas cards. Maximum network size averaged 153.5 individuals, with a mean network size of 124.9 for those individuals explicitly contacted; these values are remarkably close to the group size of 150 predicted for humans on the basis of the size of their neocortex. Age, household type, and the re...

Abstract – A novel passive boost power converter forsingle-phaseswitched reluctance motor is presented. A simple passive circuit is proposed comprisingthree diodes and one capacitor. The passive circuitis added in the front-end of a conventional asymmetric converter to obtain high negative bias. Based on this passive network, the terminal voltage of the converter side is a general DC-link volta...

In this paper, we employ the Communicating finite state machine (CFSM) model for networks to investigate fault management using passive testing. First, we introduce the concept of passive testing. Then, we introduce the CFSM model, the observer model and the fault model with necessary assumptions. We introduce the fault detection algorithm using passive testing. Then, we briefly present our new...

This paper reviews the progress of the passive optical network, and discusses a viable means for the realisation of future generation agile gigabits passive optical networks, (GPONs) by the use of low cost narrow band tunable lasers and arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs). It projectes a twostage strategy for the realisation of future generation agile GPONs, i.e., the near-term Time and Wavelengt...

This paper describes the network architecture and provides a performance analysis of a passive optical network named SONATA, which has been proposed and will be demonstrated in the context of the European Union ACTS Program. In this nation-wide all-optical network, end-terminals access a single passive routing node via PONs using a TDMA/WDMA access scheme based on slot reservations. The central...