Video transmission over wireless networks has quality of service (QoS) requirements and the time-varying characteristics of wireless channels make it a challenging task. IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN has been widely used for the last mile connection for multimedia transmission. In this paper, a cross-layer design is presented for video streaming over IEEE 802.11e HCF Controlled Channel Access (HCCA)...

In this paper, aiming to improve the quality of multimedia transmission while satisfying the quality of service (QoS) requirements, we propose an optimal subcarrier allocation by jointly considering the video coding rate and the available power resource. We jointly analyses the effects on the performance of multimedia transmission from video coding rate at the application layer as well as the p...

This paper addresses the problem of resource allocation in a multiservice overlapped code division multiple access (OV-CDMA) system. A joint transmission power and overlapping coefficient (transmission rate) allocation strategy is provided via the solution of a constrained convex quadratic optimization problem. The solution of this problem maximizes the aggregate throughput subject to peak tran...

Abstract We consider the power and rate allocation for a transmission in wireless network where transmitter knows channel state of desired receiver but only statistics interferes. While this scenario is often encountered practice, extremely important dense networks, its optimal solution was not yet known. The analysis considers nodes that are distributed according to homogeneous Poisson point p...

Optical Burst Switching (OBS) has been developed as an efficient switching technique to exploit the capacity provided by Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) transmission technology for the next generation optical Internet. One critical design issue in OBS is how to provide Quality-of-Service (QoS) in optical networks. This thesis focuses on providing QoS in OBS networks. Two basic models for...

Prior field studies and modelling analyses have individually highlighted the importance of age-specific and spatial heterogeneities on the risk for schistosomiasis in human populations. As long-term, large-scale drug treatment programs for schistosomiasis are initiated in subSaharan Africa and elsewhere, optimal strategies for timing and distribution of therapy have yet to be fully defined on t...

In a recent article in the Reader's Opinion, advantages and disadvantages of the certification processes of interrupted Chagas disease transmission (American trypanosomiasis) by native vector were discussed. Such concept, accepted by those authors for the case of endemic situations with introduced vectors, has been built on a long and laborious process by endemic countries and Subregional Initi...

This paper studies the effect of packet loss during application weighted gradient descent to solve a resource allocation problem with piecewise quadratic cost functions in multi-agent system. We define two performance metrics that measure, respectively, deviation from constraint and error on expected function. derive upper bounds both metrics: are proportional difference between initial functio...