This document describes the Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) protocol, a massively scalable reliable content delivery protocol. Asynchronous Layered Coding combines the Layered Coding Transport (LCT) building block, a multiple rate congestion control building block and the Forward Error Correction (FEC) building block to provide congestion controlled reliable asynchronous delivery of content t...

The concept of embedding protocols is proposed as a new technique for constructing replication protocols. A number of replicas is combined to one logical building block and a replication protocol is applied to it. By allowing those building blocks to become part of another building block a hierarchy is set up. Since every building block can use a diierent replication protocol, the resulting pro...

We present a new speech enhancement method for robust speech recognition in a noisy car environment. The method is based on the combination of two important building blocks, namely blind source separation given two microphone signals and speech denoising using a hybrid Wavelet Independent Component Analysis (ICA) filterbank. The first block separates point sources such as the passenger’s voice ...

Many complex engineering problems have multi-objectives where each objective is conflicting with others. However, a lot research Jiradej Ponsawat et al. 2 works in optimization by Competent Genetic Algorithm are focused on single objective methods. These algorithms work very well for single objective problems but stumble when trying to discover a large number of solutions naturally occurred in ...

in this paper, we propose a new method for the numerical solution of two-dimensional linear and nonlinear volterra integral equations of the first and second kinds, which avoids from using starting values. an existence and uniqueness theorem is proved and convergence isverified by using an appropriate variety of the gronwall inequality. application of the method is demonstrated for solving the ...

Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. This paper surveys several of these agent-mediated electronic commerce systems by describing their roles in the context of a Consumer Buying Behavior (CBB) model. The CBB model we present augments traditional marketing models with concepts from Software Agents research to ...

A sialic acid glycosyl phosphate building block was designed and synthesized. This building block was used to prepare α-sialylated oligosaccharides by automated solid-phase synthesis selectively.