Requirements of emerging applications together with rapid changes in networking technology towards gigabit speeds require new adequate transport systems. Integrated designs of transport services, protocol architecture, and implementation platforms are required by forthcoming applications in high-speed network environments. The transport subsystem PATROCLOS (parallel transport subsystem for cell...

The connguration spaces of mechanical systems usually support Riemannian metrics which have a explicitly solvable geodesic ows and parallel transport operators. While not of primary interest, such metrics can be used to generate integration algorithms by using the known parallel transport to evolve points in velocity phase space.

We report a systematic study of the transport properties of coupled one-dimensional metallic chains as a function of the number of parallel chains. When the number of parallel chains is less than 2000, the transport properties show power-law behavior on temperature and voltage, characteristic for one-dimensional systems.