We present a series of experimental designs based on different mesh survivability principles and study how the working and spare capacity requirements of each network type vary with the network average nodal degree or notionally, the connectivity of the facilities graph of the network. This is accompanied by an attempt at some simple theories for bounding or estimating how capacity and redundan...

This paper presents performance comparison among ve strategies for mobile support. The major facilities that are required for a network protocol to support mobile hosts are location management and packet forwarding. Based on this observation, we consider ve basic strategies which use distinct methods to achieve these facilities and compare their performance. These ve strategies are Broadcast No...

The spatial distribution of urban service facilities is largely constrained by the road network. In this study, network point pattern analysis and correlation analysis were used to analyze the relationship between road network and healthcare facility distribution. The weighted network kernel density estimation method proposed in this study identifies significant differences between the outside ...

This paper examines a network design problem that arises in the telecommunications industry. In this problem, communication between a gateway vertex and a number of demand vertices is achieved through a network of fiber optic cables. Since each cable has an associated capacity (bandwidth), enough capacity must be installed on the links of the network to satisfy the demand, using possibly differ...

Cycling can improve the health of riders, reduce carbon emissions from travelling, relieve congestion in the transport network, and save health and social care costs. According to the Australian National Cycling Strategy 2011-2016, the goal is to double the number of cyclists in the next 5 years. Bike lanes play an important role in promoting bike travel in a safe and protected environment. Cur...

It is well-known that utilizing existing network facilities in the construction of new network is very important in the case of short-term network design [1]. The reason is that existing network facilities are ready to be used and cannot be changed easily in a short period of time. For the short-term network design, we have studied the link capacity assignment for packet-switched networks with ...

For a comprehensive guide to the various array characteristics, corresponding correlator capabilities, range of diverse observing modes, different proposal submission procedures, user support etc., I refer the reader to the on-line web pages highlighted above. In this paper I have chosen to focus on a sub-set of these facilities, in particular the European VLBI Network (EVN) both in stand-alone...

In this paper we present HealthNet (HN), a social network that helps patients to meet the best doctor for her health condition. The core component of HN is a recommender system that suggests to the user patients similar to her, and generates suggestions about doctors and hospitals that best match her patient profile. Currently an alpha version of HN is available only for Italian users, but in t...

The Pilot operating system provides a single-user, single-language environment for higher level software on a powerful personal computer. Its features include virtual memory, a large "fiat" file system, streams, network communication facilities, and concurrent programming support. Pilot thus provides rather more powerful facilities than are normally associated with personal computers. The exact...

in this study, a low-cost, rapid and qualitative evaluation procedure is presented using dynamic pattern recognition analysis to assess liquefaction potential which is useful in the planning, zoning, general hazard assessment, and delineation of areas, dynamic pattern recognition using neural networks is generally considered to be an effective tool for assessing of hazard potential on the basis...