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Traditional feedback controllers are used to ensure system operation in a desired regime. In contrast, rational controllers are intended to determine a regime most appropriate for the system, given varying conditions of its operation. In this paper, two types of rational controllers are described and their applications in wireless personal area networks and sensor networks are presented.

The goal of topological design of a k-connected computer communication network is to achieve a specified performance at minimal cost/delay. Unfortunately, the problem is completely intractable. A reasonable approach is to generate a potential network topology. Stieglitz, Weiner and Kleitman have presented a heuristic for generating a potential network topology. This heuristic begins by numberin...

Merging the adaptive networks with the free space optical (FSO) communication technology is a very interesting field of research because by adding the benefits of this technology, the adaptive networks become more efficient, cheap and secure. This is due to the fact that FSO communication uses unregistered visible light bandwidth instead of the overused radio spectrum. However, in spite of all ...

–Very large scale integration of complex circuits on to a smaller chip demands for the evolution of high speed computer networks. The traditional wired network constraints like mobility and expensive cabling. But wireless communication is a flexible data communication system implemented as an extension to or as an alternative for wired communication. The bandwidth and the services provided by t...

The paper argues that everyday exchange of business emails produces a development in the work-group relationship, which, in turn, makes new communication styles possible and acceptable by the users' habit to computer-mediated forms, even in unbalanced professional exchanges. The focus is on the (spoken) discourse features of email messages in a self-compiled corpus of selected computer-mediated...

The two main characteristics of small-world networks are strong local clustering, and small diameter. These two characteristics are desirable properties in communication networks since typical communication patterns show large amounts of local communication and a small amount of non-local communication that must be completed quickly. In this paper, we study variants of broadcasting that resembl...