Reduce Operations: Send Volume Balancing While Minimizing Latency

Minimizing Mobile IP Handoff Latency

Handoff latencies affect the service quality of real-time applications of mobile users. With Mobile IP (MIP), the handoff latency highly depends on the distance, i.e. delay, between Home Agent (HA) and Foreign Agent (FA). Hierarchical MIP (HMIP) minimizes handoff latencies but depends on additional network elements introduced on the path between HA and FA. The need for additional network elemen...

Minimizing latency of agreement protocols

Minimizing the Service Cost of Mobile Chargers While Maintaining the Perpetual Operations of WRSNs

The wireless energy transfer technology based on magnetic resonant coupling has been emerging as a promising technology for lifetime prolongation of wireless sensor networks, by providing controllable yet perpetual energy to sensors. As a result, we can employ mobile chargers (i.e., charging vehicles) to charge sensors with wireless energy transfer when the mobile charger approach lifetimecriti...

Maximizing Library Presence While Minimizing Online Maintenance

This paper presents challenges and opportunities for an academic library to increasing its presence in an online learning management system (LMS). Successful examples from Athabasca University, Canada’s Open University will highlight the benefits of a collaborative team approach to course development and LMS software applications. This case study demonstrates how an academic library can partici...

Latency- and Bandwidth-Minimizing Optimal Failure Detectors

Failure detectors are fundamental building blocks in distributed systems. Multi-node failure detectors, where the detector is tasked with monitoring N other nodes, play a critical role in overlay networks and peer-to-peer systems. In such networks, failures need to be detected quickly and with low overhead. Achieving these properties simultaneously poses a difficult tradeoff between detection l...