These articles discuss Earth's many dynamic processes and their interactions.

International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communication (WPMC 2011) in Brest, France. Abstract: Current shipboard monitoring systems use extensive lengths of cables to connect sensors to control units. Replacing wired connections by wireless ones may be an efficient solution to reduce the ship weight and cost. Ships are characterized by a specific metallic environment which can se...

In this paper we focus on a class of polling systems encountered while modeling the ferry based wireless local area network (FWLAN). A moving ferry, while walking in a predetermined cyclic path, communicates with the static nodes (or users) of the network via a wireless link. The ferry is assumed to stop and communicate with a node that has a packet to send or to receive, when it is closest to ...

In almost all studied polling systems, the user leaves the system after his service is completed. There are interesting applications, in which the users demand a second service (or more). For example, in a ferry assisted sparse wireless network, for every local data transfer the ferry has to collect the data from the source and then deliver the same to the sink. This type of application can be ...

Abstract— Much work has been done on designing routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. However, existing solutions assume that an end-to-end path exists from a source to a destination. Some ad hoc network scenarios e.g. bus-based vehicular adhoc networks are characterized by frequent partitions and intermittent connectivity. Hence, new routing schemes designed for such networks have emerg...

Plug-in hybrid fuel cell and battery propulsion systems appear promising for decarbonising transportation applications such as road vehicles coastal ships. However, it is challenging to develop optimal or near-optimal energy management these without exact knowledge of future load profiles. Although efforts have been made strategies in a stochastic environment with discrete state space using Q-l...

In this paper we focus on a class of polling systems encountered while modeling the ferry based wireless local area network (FWLAN). A moving ferry, while walking in a predetermined cyclic path, communicates with the static nodes (or users) of the network via a wireless link. The ferry is assumed to stop and communicate with a node that has a packet to send or to receive, when it is closest to ...