There is a general consensus that 10 Gbps copper backplane serial links will be deployed in the near future. This paper takes a look at the practical and cost effective design aspects of the 1012.5 Gbps links as well as the feasibility and requirements for the next generation of serial links operating in the 20-25 Gbps range. The design aspects considered include choice of various dielectric ma...

In this paper we present a distributed power control scheme, which maintains the SIRs of operational (active) links above their required thresholds at all time (link quality protection), while new users are being admitted; furthermore, when new users cannot be successfully admitted, existing ones do not su er uctuations of their SIRs below their required thresholds values. We also present two a...

In a typical pattern of Alzheimer's disease onset, episodic memory decline is predominant while in other neurocognitive domains subsidiary or absent. Such descriptions refer to relationships between as well deficits within domains. However, the former are rarely statistically modelled. This study used psychometric network analysis model variables cognitive normality (CN), amnestic mild impairme...

We investigate the economic hubs and authorities of the world trade network (WTN) from 1992 to 2012, an era of rapid economic globalization. Using a well-defined weighted hyperlink-induced topic search (HITS) algorithm, we can calculate the values of the weighted HITS hub and authority for each country in a conjugate way. In the context of the WTN, authority values are large for countries with ...