Introduction In the last two chapters we will discuss two applications for probability modeling. In this chapter Probability modeling in Traffic Engineering will be addressed and in the next chapter Probability modeling in Medical Imaging will be addressed. The design of telephone switching system and networks in the early 1900's took into consideration the random arrival pattern of customers i...

Much of our technological infrastructure (traffic, electricity, telephone, water) operates on networks. Many of the phenomena on infrastructure networks display spatio-temporal structure. For example, traffic congestion only occurs at certain places and times; electricity is most used on very cold or very hot days, and in specific neighborhoods; telephone networks are heavily used on special da...

Cellular telephones save power by switching to a low power, or dormant, mode when there is no active traffic. In dormant mode, the telephone periodically checks for a beacon, and if the beacon indicates that the phone has moved to a new paging area, the telephone performs a paging area update. Paging area update signaling requires considerably less power than is required to move an active traff...

An algorithm is developed for automatic classification of the telephone-listening environment in a hearing instrument. The system would enable the hearing aid to automatically change its behavior when it is used for a telephone conversation (e.g., decrease the amplification in the hearing aid, or adapt the feedback suppression algorithm for reflections from the telephone handset). Two listening...

This paper deals with the design of a bank of robust H∞ PI controllers for local traffic control. Traffic flow is modeled by the Uncertain Cell Transmission Model (UCTM) which is an affine switched model. It switches between different operating modes according to the traffic state (state dependent switching) and the uncertain parameters of the system. A robust PI controller is calculated for ea...