An application-level protocol that integrates the concept of application level framing and the network-aware applications is proposed in this paper to support the network applications with the synchronized multimedia session. The application model and the application QoS for the protocol are also proposed. The application QoS for each flow includes the maximum allowable ratio for the lost mediu...

In this paper, a transmit power control scheme for a cognitive radio system (CRS) in a Rayleigh fading channel based on the location information of primary user is proposed. The situation where primary user (PU) i.e. licensed user share the spectrum with secondary user (SU) i.e. cognitive radio have been considered. First a mathematical model for probability of detection as a function of distan...

In this article, the measurement of wear i n radial journal bearings is discussed, where a distinction is made between stationa y and non-stationa y contact conditions. Starting with Holm/ArchardS wear law, equations are derived for the calculation of the specific wear rate k of the bearing material as afunction of the wear depth d, measured after an experiment or a period of use i n practice. ...

The power gating technique is useful in reducing standby leakage current, but it increases the gate delay. For a functional unit, its maximum allowable delay (for a target clock period) limits its smallest standby leakage current its power gating can achieve. In this paper, we point out that, in the high-level synthesis of a nonzero clock skew circuit, the resource binding (including functional...

This paper proposes a method for robust state feedback controller design of networked control systems with interval time-varying delay and nonlinearity. The key steps in the method are to construct an improved interval-delay-dependent Lyapunov functional and to introduce an extended Jessen’s inequality. Neither free weighting nor model transformation are employed in the derivation of the system...

Availability and reliability of a manufacturing system are the most common indicators in the reliability engineering area to assess the quality and on-time deliveries of the products they produce. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the availability, reliability. failure metrics such as MTBF and MTTF, and also steady-state availability of a cooking oilproduction line using a Markov approach...