Medium Access Protocol (MAC) for wireless networks plays a very crucial role in the network performance. Wireless links have a smaller bandwidth compared to wire-line links, they are also more susceptible to interference than wire-line links. In this paper, we propose a MAC protocol for cellular networks. We assume two different types of traffic (real-time audio and regular computer traffic) ea...

In this paper we propose a new family of temperature distribution sensors based on the magnetostrictive delay line technique. An array of parallel conductors is set orthogonal to the delay line and used for pulsed current transmission. coil is set around the one end of the delay line in order to receive the magneto-elastic pulses. A platinum wire or a thermistor is electrically connected to the...

This paper presents a performance-driven I/O pin routing algorithm with special consideration of wire uniformity. First, a topological routing based on min-cost max-flow algorithm is proposed. In this phase, an exponential weight function is used to guide the flow distribution which is very helpful in distributing wires, globally and uniformly, on the whole routing area. Then a physical routing...

Two experiments investigated infants' and adults' perception of 3D shape from line junction information. Participants in both experiments viewed a concave wire half-cube frame. In Experiment 1, adults reported that the concave wire frame appeared to be convex when it was viewed monocularly (with one eye covered) and that it appeared to be concave when it was viewed binocularly. In Experiment 2,...

In this paper we describe a new method to measure the position of an overhead line in a railway application. The height and stagger of an overhead line can nowadays be measured through a stereo-vision system composed of two line scanner cameras; the existing applications, unfortunately, cause some malfunctioning. In this work we want to test a new method that increases the resolution of wire im...

In South Africa, electricity is supplied through thousands-of-kilometers of overhead power cables, which is owned by Eskom the national energy supplier. Currently monitoring of these overhead power cables are done by means of helicopter inspection flights and foot patrols, which are infrequent and expensive. In this paper, the authors present the design of a prototype power line crawler (inspec...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the reproducibility of wire codes to characterise residential power line configurations and to determine the extent to which wire codes provide a proxy measure of residential magnetic field strength in a case-control study of childhood leukaemia conducted in nine states within the United States. METHODS Misclassification of wire codes was assessed with independent me...

In recent year, with recent increase of interest towards leisure sports, increased number of Zip-Line or Zip built. Many researches have been actively conducted on the emphasis of the cable and the wire at the bridge. However, very limite researches have been conducted on the safety of the Zip structure. In fact, fall accidents from Zip-Line have been reported frequently. Therefore, in this stu...

Complex system-level simulation can produce large amounts of data, of which only portions may be of interest. When experimenting with hybrid prototypes, consisting of physical and simulated components, data logs are generated and inspected in real-time. Storing full data logs would not only require much disk space, it would also require much effort to find special events and related system acti...

A numerical method is described that has been used for predicting the dynamic behaviour of a trolley wire overhead contact system when disturbed by the pantograph on the train roof. The vertical motion of the trolley wire is given by the solution of a fourth order partial differential equation and that of the pantograph is given by the solution of ordinary differential equations, these two solu...