network expansion studies normally offer new power lines, new substations or expansion of existing substations. they are generally proposed based on technical requirements, but financial restrictions are not considered. because of financial restrictions, ranking of network expansion plans is required. in this paper an algorithm for such ranking, based on technical and financial view points and ...

Many distributed audio and video applications exhibit robustness in adapting to fluctuations in the delivered quality of service (QoS). By trading off temporal and spatial quality to available bandwidth, or manipulating the playout time of continuous media in response to variation in delay, audio and video flows can be kept meaningful at the playout device with minimal perceptual distortion. In...

This paper proposes the first end-to-end deep framework for high dynamic range (HDR) imaging of dynamic scenes with large-scale foreground motions. In state-of-the-art deep HDR imaging such as [13], the problem is formulated as an image composition problem, by first aligning input images using optical flows which are still error-prone due to occlusion and large motions. In our end-to-end approa...

In this paper, we present a model of ‘collective innovation’ built upon the network formation formalism. In our model, agents localized on a circle benefit from knowledge flows from other agents with whom they are directly or indirectly connected. They support costs for direct connections which are linearly increasing with geographic distance. The dynamic process of network formation exhibits p...

(ABSTRACT) This research is concerned with the development of algorithmic approaches for solving problems that arise in the design and analysis of telecommunication networks, location-allocation distribution contexts, and intelligent transportation networks. Specifically, the corresponding problems addressed in these areas are a local access and transport area (LATA) network design problem, the...

Software-defined networking (SDN) enables the flexible and dynamic configuration of a network, and OpenFlow is one practical SDN implementation. Although it has been widely deployed in actual environments, it can cause fatal flows. In this paper, we consolidate the security threats to OpenFlow mentioned in previous work and introduce a new security checksheet that includes risk assessment metho...

Despite of their very broad diffusion, IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks are not able to provide service differentiation and to support real-time multimedia applications, due to their channel access methods. To overcome these limitations, the 802.11e working group has proposed the Enhanced Distributed Coordination Access (EDCA) scheme which achieves service differentiation on statistical...

The popularity of wireless communication has increased substantially over the last decade, due to mobility support, flexibility and ease of deployment. Among next generation of mobile communication technologies, Ad Hoc networking plays an important role, since it can stand alone as private network, become a part of public network, either for general use or as part of disaster management scenari...

This paper investigates equilibrium solutions for data flows on a network. We consider a fluid dynamic model based on conservation laws. The dynamics at nodes is solved by FIFO policy combined with through flux maximization. We first link the dimension of the equilibria space to topological properties of the graph associated to the network. Then we focus on regular plane tilings with square or ...