Multi-party interactive network applications such as teleconferencing, network gaming and online trading are gaining popularity. In addition to end-to-end latency bounds, these applications require that the perceived delay difference among multiple users of the service is minimized. We propose a Latency EQualization (LEQ) service for interactive network applications, which equalizes the perceiv...

Traffic snarl-up or traffic jam is a common phenomenon in Puri, one of the imperative pilgrimage sites for Hindus as well as a popular tourist destination in India. Traffic congestion inevitably produces traffic noise, in turn annoying the drivers, leading to road rage. Keeping this in mind, the present article has monitored and assessed different noise descriptors in 7 different types of buses...

The objectives of the study were to monitor and assess the road traffic noise in its spatial-temporal aspect in an urban area. The paper discusses the observations, results and their interpretation based on the study. Noise recordings from site, collected from April 2006 to March 2006, were used for statistical analysis and generation of various noise indices. Noise maps were also created for i...

the main objective of the research is to study noise pollution in khorram abad, presenting executive strategies to control or reduce it. therefore, 38 stations were selected at the region to measure the noise level round-the-clock, and the samples were also taken for a week in the middle of spring and summer, 2007. the measurements were carried out during the day (7:00 am to 10:00 pm) and night...

SUMMARY This document describes the basis of the computer model currently used by the CAA to generate contour maps of aircraft noise exposure level around airports. Developed from the earlier Noise and Number Index (NNI) model, this now produces contours of Equivalent Sound Level (Leq) in dB(A). The main difference between the procedures used to compute these two noise indices lies in the algor...

This paper describes recent advances in the combinatorial method for computing $\pi(x)$, the number of primes $\leq x$. In particular, the memory usage has been reduced by a factor of $\log x$, and modifications for shared- and distributed-memory parallelism have been incorporated. The resulting method computes $\pi(x)$ with complexity $O(x^{2/3}\mathrm{log}^{-2}x)$ in time and $O(x^{1/3}\mathr...

Traffic snarl-up or traffic jam is a common phenomenon in Puri, one of the imperative pilgrimage sites for Hindus as well as a popular tourist destination in India. Traffic congestion inevitably produces traffic noise, in turn annoying the drivers, leading to road rage. Keeping this in mind, the present article has monitored and assessed different noise descriptors in 7 different types of buses...