The continuous growth of data has created a demand for better data fusion algorithms. In this study we have used a method called Bayesian networks to answer the demand. The reason why Bayesian networks are used in wide range of applications is that modelling with Bayesian networks offers easy and straightforward representation for combining a priori knowledge with the observations. Another reas...

Reliability-based hybrid ARQ (RB-HARQ) is a recently introduced approach to incremental-redundancy ARQ. In RB-HARQ, the bits that are to be retransmitted are adaptively selected at the receiver based on the estimated bit reliabilities. This technique has the potential to improve performance and minimize retransmission size by targetting those bits that are likely to be in error. However, previo...

Hybrid CDN-P2P networks blend Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks to overcome their shortcomings. Replica placement in these networks is still an open problem. Hierarchical structure of these networks makes it inefficient to use available replica placement strategies specialized to CDN or P2P network domains. In this work, we introduce a novel replication strategy wh...

The growing demands for ubiquitous high-speed data services require hybrid interworking in NextGeneration (NG) wireless networks. Handover management is important in providing seamless roaming when User Equipments (UE) are moving across boundaries of radio coverage areas provided by different networking technologies. Handover mechanisms have been well studied in homogeneous circuit-switched net...

This paper describes the design and implementation of video conference system over the hybrid type peer-to-peer networks. The proposed video conference system has hybrid type Peer to Peer networks based on a client-server and peer-to-peer, where client-server is used for exchange of account management, client list and status information and peer-to-peer is used for the real time video conferenc...

This paper addresses the hybrid synchronization problem in two nonlinearly coupled complex networks with asymmetrical coupling matrices under pinning control schemes. The hybrid synchronization of two complex networks is the outer antisynchronization between the driving network and the response network while the inner complete synchronization in the driving network and the response network.Wewi...

The envisioned realization of ubiquity has resulted into the emergence of new kinds of the hybrid networks. The modern hybrid networks, e.g. combination of wireless mesh and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), help realize ubiquity through spontaneous networking. The network management for these hybrid networks is different from conventional and infrastructure based network management. Heterogenei...

Possibilistic networks are important tools for dealing with uncertain pieces of information. For multiplyconnected networks, it is well known that the inference process is a hard problem. This paper studies a new representation of possibilistic networks, called hybrid possibilistic networks. The uncertainty is no longer represented by local conditional possibility distributions, but by their co...

Since their inception during the first century, library institutions have used manual operations to provide services to patrons. Information seekers in these libraries spent a lot of time perusing through card catalogues and searching rows of stacks for material that may have been checked out by someone else. The tradition tool and techniques were inadequate and time consuming. The introduction...

This paper proposes an application-aware cross-layer approach between application/transport layers on the mobile terminal and link layer at the wireless base station to enable dynamic control on the strength of per-packet error protection for multimedia and data transfers. Specifically, in the context of cellular networks, the proposed scheme allows to control the desired level of Hybrid ARQ (H...