Peer-to-peer overlay networks offer a novel platform for a variety of scalable and decentralized distributed applications. Systems known as Distributed Hash Tables provide efficient and fault-tolerant routing, object location and load balancing within a self-organizing overlay network. The alternative solution we propose is an overlay location and routing infrastructure that efficiently uses mi...

Allocating and routing problems in the field of transportation engineering are generally solved using the objective function of minimizing transport cost. Transport risk is a main concern in hazardous material transportation, mainly dependent on the vision of decision makers (national and/or local authorities). In this research work, a trade-off approach has been proposed to determine the safes...

Sensor networks, due to their applicability, have been attracting a considerable amount of attention in the research community recently. The limited resources available for the sensors (like memory, energy, etc.) pose significant challenges in building routing infrastructures for sensor networks. The ad hoc nature of the sensor networks also present challenges in fault tolerance. This paper dis...

Flexible job shops are characterized by the existence of alternative –not necessarily identicalmachines, which permits parts to have different alternative routes in the shop. In a dynamic scheduling situation in which jobs continuously arrive over time, part routing rules are needed to deal with such routing flexibility as much as sequencing rules which define the order by which parts are admit...

As routing takes place in an entirely distributed system where local routers have no direct access to globally consistent network state information, a routing algorithm has to make uncertain forwarding decisions. As the network state may change, due to failures or new adoptions of networks, routing algorithms have to adapt themselves to the new situation. This network convergence phase should b...

OMI/HIC is a point-to-point link technology under development. It has a exible packet format and supports ow control, which makes OMI/HIC usable as an alternative physical layer for other higher level protocols, like SCI and ATM. Routing chips with advanced routing strategies are made, and these routing chips are useful building blocks for larger switches for point to point links.

This paper presents the results of a simulation study of a typical flexible manufacturing system (FMS) that has routing flexibility. The objective in this study is to test the effectiveness of the modified dissimilarity maximization method (modified DMM) for real time FMS scheduling. modified DMM method is an improvement of the DMM method. Modified DMM method is an alternative process plan sele...