The cost of nosocomial infections in the United States is estimated to be $4 billion to $5 billion annually. Applying a scientifically based analysis to disease transmission and performing a site specific risk analysis to determine the design of the ventilation system can provide real and long term cost savings. Using a scientific approach and convincing data, this paper hypothetically illustra...

The performance optimization of UAV communication systems requires the joint design trajectory and efficiently. To tackle challenge infinite variables arising from continuous-time optimization, a commonly adopted approach in existing literature is by approximating with piecewise-linear path segments connected via finite number waypoints three-dimensional (3D) space. However, this may still incu...

Power efficiency is becoming an increasingly important design aspect for FPGAs. Recently it has been shown that well-known power minimization techniques in the ASICs such as creating supply voltage (Vdd) scalable islands of different granularity can be applied to FPGAs. However, the discrete routing architecture of FPGAs amplifies any constraint imposed on the placement stage. In this work, we ...

Recent development in optical networking employing wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) fulfills the high bandwidth demand applications. Failure of such networks, leads to enormous data and revenue loss. Design a low cost survivable WDM network is always an interesting and difficult process. In this paper we present link-path model for capacity allocation and calculate blocking probability in...

In this paper we consider feedback-based routing exploiting path diversity that jointly uses best path selection and flow control for optimality and stability. The contributions of the present paper are manifold. We show numerical evidence that routing performance are insensitive to rate coordination along available routes in practical scenarios. Route uncoordination arises in case of in-networ...

Increased concerns about climate change and day by day increment in energy cost has created the importance of Refrigeration & Air Conditioning system with high COP. COP of a Vapour Compression Refrigeration system is mainly influenced by the effectiveness of the Heat Exchanger being Employed. Optimization in the design of Heat Exchanger is highly desirable to improve their effectiveness and red...

The advancement in CMOS technology has surpassed the progress in computer aided design tools, creating an avenue for new design optimization flows. This paper presents a design level transistor sizing based timing optimization algorithms for mixed-static-dynamic CMOS logic designs. This optimization algorithm performs timing optimization through partitioning a design into static and dynamic cir...

The purpose of this platform is to provide a design and implementation environment for prototyping both computational and controller functions, in a standard communication architecture, including an Atmel AVR micro-controller and a Wishbone bus protocol. This platform serves the goal of the fast implementation and test of a data-path or controller IP blocks in an FPGA. The purpose of the propos...

The literature on network flow problems is extensive, and over the past 40 years researchers have made continuous improvements to algorithms for solving several classes of problems. However, the surge of acti ty concerning the algorithmic aspects of network flow problems over the past few years has been particularly striking. Several tecnniques nave oven to De very successIul in permitting rese...

Multimedia and multiservice broadband networks (e.g. Broadband-ISDN and ATM based LANs) will be implemented using Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). In this paper we consider the combined control problem of flow rate and bandwidth (capacity, service rate) at the virtual path level in ATM based networks under nonstationary conditions. A fluid flow model in the state variable form is used to descr...