In this report, we present a plan for upgrading the Sequoia 2000 network, a widearea network connecting five UC campuses operating at tens of megabits per second, to gigabit per second speeds. We present our motivation for a gigabit network by describing the new direction of the Sequoia project, now called “Redwood”, and describing the applications that drive our decisions for upgrading the net...

AURORA is one of five U.S. testbeds charged with exploring applications of, and technologies necessary for, networks operating at gigabit per second or higher bandwidths. AURORA is also an experiment in collaboration, where government support (through the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, which is in turn funded by DARPA and the NSF) has spurred interaction among centers of excelle...

The prevalence of online scholarly, technical work is increasing at a great rate. In 1995, Hitchcock, Carr, and Hall [6] reported that there were 115 scholarly peer-reviewed online journals in Science and Technology, plus a comparable number in the Social Sciences; in 1999 Maclennan [9] estimated that 10,000 electronic journals were in existence. With this increase in electronic literature, the...

A computationally efficient algorithm for characterizing the superposition process of N heterogeneous and independent Interrupted Bernoulli Processes is introduced. The algorithm is then used to analyze a statistical multiplexer with finite buffer. Finally, numerical examples highlighting the algorithm accuracy are given. "Supported in part by BelJSouth, GTE Corporation, and NSF and DARPA under...

Teachers have been teaching using traditional strategies and frameworks for generations. Faculty development is a planned activity aimed at improving the performance of departmental faculty members by focusing on improvement individual knowledge skills in relevant areas.1These include teaching, administrative, research, clinical skills.Continuous medical education praiseworthy path to keep educ...

APEC Study Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand     Abstract:   One of the key sets of questions underlying Asia Pacific economic cooperation over the last decade has been over the nature and form of the regional trade architecture that would gradually emerge from the turmoil of the Asia-Pacific “noodle bowl” of bilateral and plurilateral FTAs, and how that architecture...