Legacy 802.11b/g protocols have been successfully applied in wireless long-distance (WiLD) networks to provide low-cost network connectivity for rural areas and developing countries, by designing TDMA MAC protocols. In contrast, we investigate the performance, and enhancement of using 802.11n for WiLD networks still using CSMA/CA. Our extensive experiments from our testbed show that, although 8...

This article argues that the practical jokes running throughout Wilson’s novel Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) are evidence of a deliberate and sophisticated comic strategy that exploits the spectacular body’s potential for subversive performance and works against thealienating conditions of social and political marginalisation experienced by African Americans in<l...

This paper attempts to establish criteria to analyse and evaluate computer models of creativity in writing. The paper provides a brief review of the antecedents of automatic story-generation and offers a proposal for the analysis and evaluation of computer models of creativity in writing. It reviews three major projects to develop computer-based storywriters published between 1993 and 2000 and ...

IEEE 802.11 technology provides a low-cost wireless networking solution. In the last few years, we have seen that the demand for high-bandwidth wireless local area networks increases rapidly, due to the proliferation of mobile devices such as laptops, smart phones and tablet PCs. This has driven the widespread deployment of IEEE 802.11 wireless networks to provide Internet access. However, wire...

Every year, around the arrival of Spring equinox, Iranians in Iran and diaspora will recognize a minstrel named Haji Firuz with his Nowruz jingle. The inclusion during festivities has been questioned challenged for decades; where some point out connections to anti-Blackness, others defend Firuz, arguing that face is only covered soot from fires also associated holiday. This article contextualiz...

Vehicular WiFi is different from conventional WiFi access. Firstly, as the connections arise opportunistically, they are short lived and intermittent. Secondly, at vehicular speeds channel conditions change rapidly. Under these conditions, the MAC bit rate adaptation plays a critical role to ensure that devices can maximize throughput performance. The goal of this work is to gain a deeper under...