... beacon frame Andthe data is transmitted tothe relaying node in one time interval, and it is being relayed tothe hub in another time interval The problem with this scheme is that firstly the prediction ... is placed on the left side of the hip Fig 1.2b and 1.2c show the top view of the human torso inthe given example As shown, with the user standing still, the line of sight CHAPTER Introduction ... node, and eliminates collisions and idles listening within the network, in turn reducing the energy wastage The protocol design is actually constrained by the capability of the RF front end, in...
... activating the incoming link so as to increase the buffered packet number from the very low level, the system will be steered into a lower-cost state Indeed, when the initial state corresponds to ... modeling We consider N transmitting source nodes Let xi (t), t = kT, i = 1, , N, denote the gain of the incoming channel betweenthe ith source andthe relay Let the gain of the outgoing link ... shows the allocation of link scheduling tothe incoming links or the outgoing link, depending on whether or not the buffer level exceeds EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking...
... therapy unit The therapy was conducted by the clinicians without any intervention from the observer Participants were evaluated prior tothe beginning of the observations using a battery of standardized ... from the FRSQ The authors would like to thank Karine Perreault and Caroline Doyon for their contribution in evaluation and recruitment of participants Finally, the authors would like to thank the ... prosthesis), Stairs (climbing stairs, up and down), Weight bearing (various activities where the goal is to put weight on the limbs) and Others (all other activities that does not fit in any of the...
... from RTT betweenthe proxy server andthe AP RTTP Since the proxy server is located inthe same as the AP andthe others’ corresponding server is located in somewhere inthe Internet, RTTo can ... frame, andthe AP sends a CTS frame back tothe STA to allocate a TXOP to it andto prohibit the other STAs from sending any frames during the network allocation vector (NAV) period Since the RTS ... the STAs share TXOPs of the AP for their downlink communications On the other hand, AP sends a packet inthe top of sending queue of the AP Therefore, to enable an STA to delegate its TXOPs to...
... be used to send emergency command tothe controller efficiently Power efficiency is the dominant factor in designing and implanting a wireless sensor network MAC protocols in WSN aim to reduce ... signal to wakeup a BN from sleep state to wakeup state The BN sends an acknowledgement (Ack packet) tothe BNC indicating it is now awake The BNC then sends the beacon tothe node The BN grabs the ... follows In Section 2, we discuss the wakeup radio concept andthe motivation behind our works In Section 3, we describe the techniques and methodology used in our proposal In Section 4, we explain the...
... inthe national capital, andthe remainder inthe medium-prevalence states) The program goal was to initiate HAART in 25,000 PLHA in that time period The national estimate for AIDS cases in India ... selected, 25 inthe HAART arm and 25 inthe OI arm Table provides baseline details of those included inthe study, and Table provides clinical features of PLHA inthe OI and HAART arms There were ... HAART drugs, and these concessions are in turn passed on tothe PLHA A pertinent question for NGOs in such settings would be in regard to costs incurred by the organization andthe PLHA for HAART/OI...
... belonging tothe decoding subset dedicate battery power tothe following actions: (i) FDD: battery power is mainly used to transmit the signaling message tothe destination indicating that the ... time-slot, the source transmits the information tothe relays, which attempt to demodulate and decode this information Inthe second time-slot, the relays encode again the information and retransmit ... relays belonging tothe decoding subset send a signalling message tothe destination (i.e., BS) indicating that they are able to relay the message This signalling message can be, for instance, a...
... transmitter index value inthe new ordering, below which all the transmitters must belong tothe set J and above which (that is, the remaining ones), they must belong tothe set K \J Since the objective ... first need to sort the DAG in topological order and then use a sequence of edge relaxations until we obtain a shortest path from the source x0 tothe vertex corresponding tothe vector Topological ... that the time to deliver all the traffic tothe intended receivers is minimized The single-hop network assumption, albeit simplifying, is interesting and highly non-trivial since it captures the...
... due tothe flow is neglected with respect tothe applied magnetic field andthe pressure inthe flow field is assumed to be constant If v0 denotes the suction/injection velocity at the plate, the ... inthe flow field influences the velocity of the field to an appreciable extent These effects have been shown in Figure Inthe figure curve with Sc= refers tothe absence of foreign mass inthe ... oscillating plate Jain and Gupta [13] have reported the unsteady hydromagnetic thermal boundary layer flow past an infinite porous surface inthe slip flow regime Singh and Gupta [14] studied the...
... During the process of the field site activities, the Participatory Assessment and Planning (PAP) and Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation (PME) were the major tools to be used for community and ... household intervention for making plans, setting priorities and evaluating innovations in order to improve household farming and its incomes By those participatory approaches, the SWG, farmers and ... the field to make observations, gathering data and processing data The role of SWG is to facilitate the whole process, they were not only to plan but to help farmers in experiment design and implementation...
... and finding out the minimum available bandwidth along the path, and using the information to inject the data into the network accordingly To compute the transmission rate, this mechanism uses the ... better to restore the cwnd to its original state (the state before the route failure) rather than restore the cwnd to its initial size as inthe slow start phase Thus, both the TCP-F andthe ELFN ... that a link is near to breaking, andthe routing protocol then informs the packet source As a result, the source stops sending packets, and route discovery is initiated Reactive LM increases the...
... used to write algorithms inthe remaining of the paper Each sensor node i, including the base station, maintains the following variables (i) Fatheri : the father of the sensor inthe final spanning ... in its neighboring hood to allow other nodes to join the tree and so on until all the nodes join the tree When receiving other Hello messages, each node uses them to set its list of sons inthe ... containing the identifiers of the sons of node i within the tree (iv) Neighborsi : a list containing the identifiers of the neighbors of node i This list is maintained to cope with node failure and...
... when i > Then, it tests the quality of the current tracking result If the result is satisfying, the MA will terminate the migration and go back tothe CH; otherwise, the MA will migrate tothe next ... (expatiated in Section 4) to obtain progressive tracking result by integrating the current TDOA into a Bayesian inference framework If it is the last node needing to be queried or the new progressive ... Advances in Signal Processing 35 terminate migration and return tothe CH The tracking accuracy can be measured by either the determinant of the estimation covariance Σk+1 or the magnitude of the...
... the sink Inthe second phase of the data-gathering period, the sensor nodes report their data tothe sink in a multihop manner As the sensor nodes know the positions of the sink and their one-hop ... Considering that the sensor nodes near the sink are inclined to become hotspots with the multihop routing protocols, we suggest that the sink should move proactively to shift the hotspot area to different ... sensor nodes in its vicinity have to be informed of the movement, andthe nodes far from it not have to change their directions of sending data The sink can control the spreading range of the notification...
... elaborates on the energy and performance radio model and on the data link control protocol Taking into account all practical overheads, we present in Section the tradeoff between rate scaling and shutdown ... want to determine the total energy and time needed to send a packet with a given packet error rate (PER) The protocol overhead introduced by this piggybacking mechanism in addition tothe protocol ... interest too The overhead of the POLL or control message to inform the peers of the schedule is not included inthe per packet values, and should be added once per scheduling period This leads to the...
... corresponding to an incoming link, M wavelength multiplexers each corresponding to an outgoing link, and W M × M optical switches each corresponding to a wavelength The incoming signal on a link is ... combines all the different wavelengths from optical switches into the corresponding outgoing link This configuration allows a wavelength on an incoming link to be switched to any outgoing link, independent ... signals to various routing nodes along the selected route informing them to reserve the selected wavelength on the specified links The information about the chosen route and wavelength is sent to the...
... Mechanisms in Wireless Networks anisms consider link quality as the main factor In [18], the authors estimate the link quality using Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) inthe uplink and downlink ... auto-configuration and self-healing All the mesh routers self-organize to form the multi-hop mesh backbone, and they auto-configure and self-heal themselves to maintain the mesh connectivity, in ... portals They can connect tothe Internet and other types of networks In order to determine the best path be17 CHAPTER Wireless Mesh Networks tween STAs or between STA and other networks (e.g., the Internet),...
... describes the network simulator used 2.1 Routing Protocols Routing protocols are used to find and maintain routes between source and destination nodes Two main classes of routing protocols are ... energy-constrained WSN tothe nearest gateway nodes linking tothe UAV backbone network The problem is being defined as a multipath and multi-hop routing problem, where the source is the sensor with EO and ... flow Since all the links ′ k,(k+1) are independent, therefore B(P1s,d ) = min{B(l1 k,(k+1) )} = min{b1 , ∀k where ≤ k ≤ (Kp=1 − 1) In other words, the available bandwidth of the single routing...
... determined by the 48-bit Bluetooth device address of the master The Bluetooth clock of the master clock determines the phase inthe hopping pattern, thereby determining the particular frequency to ... decision-making of the players, taking into account the presence or lack of information For instance, when the players are allowed to act multiple times, the behavior of these players can be analyzed using ... discipline, the ideas underlying it have appeared in various forms throughout history andin numerous sources, including the Bible, the Talmud, the works of Descartes and Sun Tzu, andthe writings...
... coordinators is purely arbitrary The standard allows any of the cluster coordinators to undertake the role of the coordinator of the entire PAN; the original PAN coordinator is then relegated tothe ... but using the PIFS interval The polling continues in round-robin fashion (i.e., one node at a time), until all the nodes are polled Then, the point coordinator remains idle until the end of the ... executing on it prepares a packet to be sent tothe coordinator Furthermore, both the original uplink transmission from a node tothe coordinator andthe subsequent acknowledgment must occur within...