This paper describes our experiences with improving TCP and Web performance over a WaveLAN-based wireless network. In previous work, we analyzed the problems to TCP performance in error-prone wireless networks and designed the Berkeley Snoop protocol to significantly improve performance over error-prone wireless links [7, 5]. Most efforts to date have focused on improving performance for transf...

In this work, we develop Bayes rules for several families of loss functions for hospital report cards under a Bayesian semiparametric hierarchical model. Moreover, we present some robustness analysis with respect to the choice of the loss function, focusing on the number of hospitals our procedure identifies as “unacceptably performing”. The analysis is carried out on a case study dataset arisi...

Recent studies of brain activities show that cross-frequency coupling (CFC) play an important role in memory and learning. Many measures have been proposed to investigate the CFC phenomenon, including the correlation between the amplitude envelopes of two brain waves at different frequencies - cross-frequency amplitude-amplitude coupling (AAC). In this short communication, we describe how nonst...

Interference, in wireless networks, is a central phenomenon when multiple uncoordinated links share a common communication medium. The study of the interference channel was initiated by Shannon in 1961 and since then this problem has been thoroughly elaborated at the Information theoretic level but its characterization still remains an open issue. When multiple uncoordinated links share a commo...

In this paper, a new approach regarding a reconfigured system is proposed to improve the performance of an active fault tolerant control system. The system performance is evaluated with an intelligent index of performance. The reconfiguration mechanism is based on a model predictive controller and reference trajectory management techniques. When an actuator fault occurs in the system, a new deg...