The scalar generalized-screen method in isotropic media is extended here to trans-versely isotropic media with a vertical symmetry axis (VTI). Although wave propaga-tion in a transversely isotropic medium is essentially elastic, we introduce an equiv-alent ‘acoustic’ system of equations for the qP-waves which we prove to be accuratefor both the dispersion relation and the po...

Tracking the movements of a target based on limited observations plays a role in many interesting applications. Existing probabilistic tracking techniques have shown considerable success but the majority assume simplistic motion models suitable for short-term, local motion prediction. Agent movements are often governed by more sophisticated mechanisms such as a goal-directed pathplanning algori...

InfiniBand has become a very popular interconnect, due to its advanced features and open standard. Large scale InfiniBand clusters are becoming very popular, as reflected by the TOP 500 supercomputer rankings. However, even with popular topologies like constant bi-section bandwidth Fat Tree, hot-spots may occur with InfiniBand, due to inappropriate configuration of network paths, presence of ot...

In this work, we consider a radar system where the antenna elements are arbitrarily distributed in space with several hundred wavelengths away. We call such a radar system distributed aperture radar system. We assume that the system is operating in multi-pathing environment, such as an urban area. We present methods for designing clutter rejecting waveforms and for reconstruction of reflectivit...

Parallel TCP, which opens multiple TCP connections over a single path, and Multi-Pathing, which concurrently uses multiple paths to transfer data, have both been proved to be effective methods to improve end-to-end throughput. How much throughput can we ultimately achieve between a source and a destination if we use multiple overlay paths and open multiple TCP connections on each used path? In ...

Finding a path efficiently is a challenging task in a commercial game environment. A typical game world will include numerous mobile entities navigating within the game world. A recently computed path for one mobile agent may need to be recomputed if the world changes or if another mobile obstacle has moved and obstructed the computed path. An obvious solution is to re-compute the path, based o...

Advances in technology have provided ways to monitor and measure driving behavior. Recently, this technology has been applied to usage-based automotive insurance policies that offer reduced insurance premiums to policy holders who opt-in to automotive monitoring. Several companies claim to measure only speed data, which they further claim preserves privacy. However, we have developed an algorit...

Collision avoidance (CA) using the artificial potential field (APF) usually faces several known issues such as local minima and dynamically infeasible problems, so unmanned aerial vehicles’ (UAVs) paths planned based on APF are safe only in a certain environment. This research proposes CA approach that combines motion primitives (MPs) to tackle problems associated with APF. Since MPs solve for ...

The phase-screen and the split-step Fourier methods, which allow modeling and migration in laterally heterogeneous media, are generalized here so as to increase their accuracies for media with large and rapid lateral variations. The medium is defined in terms of a background medium and a perturbation. Such a contrast formulation induces a series expansion of the vertical slowness in which we re...