Problem statement: This study propose an improvement of Ad Hoc on Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing protocol in order to include some of the aspects of ad hoc networks such as load balancing, congestion avoidance and avoidance of link breakage. Approach: The most important problem nowadays is link breakage which mainly occurs due to excessive load and congestion in the network. Each node co...

this research was conducted at the shahrood agricultural research center in 1382 and 1383 to study the effect of alternate furrow irrigation on potato yield and its economic evaluation. the experimental design was a randomize complete block design and the treatments were: every furrow irrigation (efi), fixed alternate furrow irrigation (fafi), variable alternate furrow irrigation (vafi), fixed ...

Given the fact that more than half of the world lacks a wired network infrastructure, satellite networks are seen as an important alternative to achieve global coverage. Since most of the world population lives around the equator or in middle-latitude regions, satellite constellations have to deal with different communication requirements from different regions. The traffic requirements become ...

Routing in wireless networks has been heavily studied in the last decade. Many routing protocols are based on classic shortest path algorithms. However, shortest path-based routing protocols suffer from uneven load distribution in the network, such as crowed center effect where the center nodes have more load than the nodes in the periphery. Aiming to balance the load, we propose a novel routin...

This paper proposes an efficient closed loop routing in optical networks. It also proposes distance optimization by genetic approach subject to requirements of fairness, efficiency, and cost. It proposes a network design problem for the traffic grooming and routing in WDM networks. Moreover, effective ways to improve its performance and reduce its complexity are provided. In this work, it is co...

The experimental fatigue life prediction of leaf springs is a time consuming process. The engineers working in the field of leaf springs always face a challenge to formulate alternate methods of fatigue life assessment. The work presented in this paper provides alternate methods for fatigue life assessment of leaf springs. A 65Si7 light commercial vehicle leaf spring is chosen for this study. T...

I. INTRODUCTION Live streaming is delay sensitive and their end-to-end allowable delay is an important factor. Allowable delay means the elapsed time in which data should arrive at an end receivers before being played back. Data arriving at end receivers later than the allowable delay are useless and cannot be played back. Therefore, not only must data losses be reduced but also a specific end-...

the collapse of a compression member gives rise to decrease of the load carrying capacity of the member. to perform a nonlinear analysis, in addition to the precritical behavior, the post-critical behavior of the compression member also must be determined. in this study, because of certain advantages of the finite element method, this method has been selected to evaluate the axial load-axial di...

Alternate reality games (ARGs) are a promising new approach for increasing student engagement; however, automated methods for analyzing and optimizing game play are non-existent. We captured the player communication generated by a recent STEM-focused ARG that we piloted in a Los Angeles charter high school. We used shallow sentiment analysis to gauge the levels of various emotions experienced b...

A 2-micron pulsed, Integrated Path Differential Absorption (IPDA) lidar instrument for ground and airborne atmospheric CO2 concentration measurements via direct detection method is being developed at NASA Langley Research Center. This instrument will provide an alternate approach to measure atmospheric CO2 concentrations with significant advantages. A high energy pulsed approach provides highpr...