The objective of wireless mobile multimedia networks is to allocate required amount of resources to a mobile multimedia call. Reserving the resources in advance to a future new and handoff call is better than rejecting a call at neck of the moment due to insufficient resource at a particular time. This work presents an efficient handoff resource management method by considering the future resou...

Quality of Service (QoS)-constrained policy has an advantage to guarantee QoS requirements requested by users. Quorum systems can ensure the consistency and availability of replicated data despite the benign failure of data repositories. We propose a Quorum based resource management scheme, which includes a system resource and network resource, both of which can satisfy the requirements of appl...

Aims: Our goals are 3-fold: (1) to review the leading options for assigning resource coefficients to health services utilization; (2) to discuss the relative advantages of each option; and (3) to provide examples where the research question had marked implications for the choice of which resource measure to employ. Methods: Three approaches have been used to establish relative resource weights ...

Generally, resource-awareness plays a key role in wireless sensor networks due the limited capabilities in processing, storage and communication. In this paper we present a resource-aware cooperative state estimation facilitated by a dynamic cluster-based protocol in a visual sensor network (VSN). The VSN consists of smart cameras, which process and analyze the captured data locally. We apply a...

Big or small companies and organizations put much effort on “human capital” and its development. They know that internal competences are able to give a distinctive identity for the company, and that the knowledge of their human competence index has become the common practice to all human resource development researchers. Various definitions and resources represents the primary wealth of the org...

This paper is concerned with radio resource allocation in multiple-chip-rate (MCR) DS/CDMA systems accommodating multimedia services with di erent information rates and quality requirements. Considering power spectral density (PSD) over a radio frequency (RF) band and the effect of RF input ltering on the receiver in MCR-DS/CDMA systems, we present criteria for capacity estimation and clarify t...