... scalability andthethroughputof these networks will decline rapidly with the increase of network nodes The solution for this problem is clustering The use of clustering in DCAs has two advantages ... can handle mobility of nodes It minimizes routing loads and enhances expandability of network by allowing participating nodes to authenticate each other without being interrupted by joining the ... overhead At the beginning of sequential update, a coalition of t servers, instead of all servers, update their shares by applying the traditional proactive share update scheme The remaining nodes...
... improving the performance of TCP on wirelessadhoc networks, those readers who are interested in single-hop wirelessnetworks are referred to [17] The readers interested inthe surveys of TCP ... challenges TCP faces inwirelessadhocnetworks Section presents a survey ofthe approaches available to improve the performance of TCP inwirelessadhocnetworksand provides taxonomy of these approaches ... considering the complexity ofwirelessnetworks With the advent ofwireless technology TCP was also employed inwireless environments Inwireless technology, changes were made inthe lower layers of the...
... multihop adhocnetworksand understand how they could be developed in practice From this standpoint, GC applications are quite interesting They fit well the overall features of multihop adhocnetworks ... level also inadhocnetworks is the fact that in this way, the burden of managing the multicast structure falls exclusively on nodes that are actually interested in being part ofthe multicast ... likely inadhoc networks, due to the intrinsic instability ofwireless links As shown inthe following, we have actually experienced such failures several times Scribe has been developed on top of...
... critical, the further increase ofthespatial node density (and hence the total node number) does not lead to the further increase ofthe SINR (since now interference dominates noise and grows at the ... power andthe effect ofthe increasing SINR is able to overcome the effect of increasing number of relays thus leading to an overall increase ofthe achievable throughput When thespatial node density ... proportionally to the signal power resulting in constant SINR and hence, independence ofthethroughput √ the node density Thereof fore, the effect found in [1] (1/ n dependence due to the increase ofthe number...
... represents the local topological status ofthewirelessadhoc network To a certain extent, the node locations and their corresponding degrees would affect the configuration ofthewirelessadhoc network ... value ofthe max-flow andthe node number of a wirelessadhoc network when the covering radius keeps constant Another important observation is that, if the covering radius R is relatively small, the ... randomly chosen in each random graph, andthe algorithm ofthe C++ program follows that in [12] The mean value ofthe max-flows is then normalized by (n − 1), where n is the number of nodes in...
... on the configuration parameters and assuming the differentiability ofthe probability of reception inthe configuration parameters, we infer the differentiability ofthe fitting parameters inthe ... (potentially) in nite retransmissions by a node The work in [6–8] incorporated a nonidealistic sensing ofthe radio channel and thus addressed the problem of hidden terminals The work in [9, 10] ... application’s constraints Typically, one ofthe constraints dominates the others, that is, the dominant constraint requires a certain (dominant) transmission power; however other constraints would likewise...
... participating inthe process, including individual molecules or their aggregates There is no unique way of representing the biochemical machinery in mathematical form: depending on the level of structural ... N, andthe thermodynamic equilibrium expressed inthe LMA in chemical kinetics [44] The latter assumes, in addition to the fact that the fixed point is the equilibrium point, existence ofthe ... to see that now the fixed point is located inthe origin of coordinates and that the Jacobian matrix inthe vicinity of this point is Jim = νi (pim − qim ) (B.10) C Derivation ofThe Autocorrelation...
... research interests are inthe routing protocols and security inwireless internet and mobile adhoc networks; algorithms, complexity, power connectivity and coverage inwireless sensor networks; adaptation, ... the IEEE International Conference ofWireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (IEEE WirelessCom 2005) He is the author of three books andinthe process of writing another two ... Associate Professor inthe Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Toledo, USA He received his Ph.D degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994 Dr...
... published broadcast algorithms in depth: the scalable broadcast algorithm andtheadhoc broadcasting protocol We modify these two algorithms in Sections and by incorporating machine learning, and we ... and T Camp, Comparisonof broadcasting techniques for mobile adhoc networks, ” in Proceedings ofthe 3rd ACM International Symposium on Mobile AdHoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC ’02), pp ... calculating connected dominating sets for efficient routing inadhocwireless networks, ” in Proceedings ofthe 3rd International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and...
... is obtained by exploiting the results in [6] and by casting the optimal MH problem of [2] in a suitable framework (2) If spatial reuse is employed, the increased interference caused by the opportunistic ... where the minimum has to be taken with respect to both the pair index k and to the node index a2 The signal radiated by a2 cooperates for the decoding ofthe signal transmitted by sk but, on the ... transmitted by sk but, on the other hand, increases the interference for the reception ofthe signals ofthe remaining sources At this point, define A(2) = {s, a2 } and A(2) = A(2) for j = k If...
... is obtained by exploiting the results in [6] and by casting the optimal MH problem of [2] in a suitable framework (2) If spatial reuse is employed, the increased interference caused by the opportunistic ... where the minimum has to be taken with respect to both the pair index k and to the node index a2 The signal radiated by a2 cooperates for the decoding ofthe signal transmitted by sk but, on the ... transmitted by sk but, on the other hand, increases the interference for the reception ofthe signals ofthe remaining sources At this point, define A(2) = {s, a2 } and A(2) = A(2) for j = k If...
... approaches inthe context of coding-aware routing [29] The benefits of network coding in multi-hop wirelessnetworks have been further studied The main idea in this research theme is to exploit the natural ... Organization In Chapter 2, we give a thorough review of literatures inthe domain ofwirelessadhoc networks, network coding, and P2P content distribution systems The problem of coding-aware routing ... existing routing protocols Some ofthe routing protocols designed for general multi-hop wirelessnetworks are also very useful for wirelessadhoc networks, so we will also include them inthe investigation...
... andthe back-off mechanism The link layer destination field ofthe encoded packet is set to the MAC address of one ofthe intended recipients However, an extra header after the link layer header ... coding header sits in between the routing and MAC layer headers Otherwise, it sits between the IP and MAC headers Only the shaded fields in Figure 4, is required in every coding header (called the ... infoArray[MAX_INFO_FIELDS]; int packetSize; char *packet; NodeAddress originatingNodeId; int sequenceNumber; int originatingProtocol; int numberOfHeaders; int headerProtocols[MAX_HEADERS]; int headerSizes[MAX_HEADERS];...
... labor; other costs; and operating interest Capital ownership costs include the annualized cost of maintaining the capital investment (economic depreciation and interest) inthe dairy operation, and ... However, the prior research is limited in terms ofthe scope andthe depth of data supporting the analyses This study addresses these limitations, taking advantage of a unique nationwide data set of ... to the organic approach with the hope of improving farm profitability Despite the growing number of organic dairy operations there is little information about the relative costs and returns of...
... site and mostly on the surface ofthe catalytic globular domain ofthe COX protein Protein expression and product analysis The cDNA was cloned into the pFASTBAC1 vector for expression in Sf9 insect ... gave similar conversion ofthe radiolabelled substrate The Val349Ile mutant ofthe 15S-COX formed 65% PGF2a and 35% ofthe 15R-epimer of PGF2a Inthe case ofthe 15R-COX, the Ile349Val mutation ... Tris/HCl pH 8.0 containing lM hematin, mM adrenalin, andin some cases 0.5 mM SnCl2 was added The reaction was initiated by addition of 50 lM [1-14C]arachidonic acid and incubations were performed...
... nucleic acids and NCp7 Thus, during the early stages of HIV-1 replication, binding of NCp7 to the C-terminal domain (80–96)Vpr [8] may expose the N-terminal (1–39) portion ofthe protein and allow ... ofthe a-helices inthe 3D structure ofthe protein The backbone is represented in blue andthe hydrophobic amino acid side chain coloured pink Ó FEBS 2002 NMR Structure ofthe HIV-1 protein ... protein targets The importance of Vpr protein–protein interactions has been clearly demonstrated by the loss of activity of Vpr following certain point mutations [16,38,39] This is one ofthe main...
... emerging data on the early role of oligomeric and protofibrilic forms of Aβ inAD is very interesting [25,26] Whether COX-2 and cell cycle proteins are part ofthe molecular mechanisms involved in ... have investigated whether activation/occurrence of microglia and astrocytes inAD brain can be correlated with the neuronal expression of COX-2 and ppRb during AD pathogenesis Staging ofAD was ... and quantification ofthe immunohistochemical data RV has been involved inthe collection ofthe human post mortem brain material TA, WS, PE and AJMR participated inthe design ofthe study and...
... target of HPV is the family of PDZ domain-containing cellular proteins PDZ domains consist of 80–90 amino acids and are amongst the most common protein-protein interaction domains found in human cells ... others at degrading p53 It is clear that E6 proteins from high-risk HPV types mediate the degradation of both p53 and several PDZ domaincontaining proteins, including MAGI-3 However, since these ... E6APdependent and E6AP-independent mechanisms, to mediate the degradation of different PDZ domain-containing proteins [7,25] Regardless of whether E6AP is involved, Since p53 and MAGI-3 represent distinct...
... this point is a function ofthe destination index m Increasing the NSD while keeping NR constant is therefore in favor of protocol A1 If the number of relays increases, the relation between l and ... complex baseband, sample them, and store the samples until the end ofthe first phase Inthe second phase, they retransmit scaled and rotated version of their received samples to the destinations ... is defined in (7) In order to compute the MSE given in (8) by averaging over the perturbing noise (additive estimation noise and phase noise), the dependence ofthe gain factors on the channel...