Based on the Differentiated Services (DiffServ, [1]) model we develop implementation-ready transmission service for video-on-demand (VoD) traffic. In order to satisfy the demands of real-time nature of VoD traffic we propose to use assured forwarding (AF, [4]) per-hop behavior (PHB) group. We provide specific traffic profile parameters which adequately fit to VoD traffic requirements. Using the...

This paper proposes a framework to represent life-cycle activities performed in business process management (BPM). It is based on the functionbehaviour-structure (FBS) ontology that represents all design entities uniformly, independently of the specific stages in their life cycle. The framework specifies a set of distinct activities that operate on the function, behaviour and structure of a bus...

With the rapidly increasing number of deployed LTE femtocell base stations (FBS), energy consumption of femtocell networks has become a serious environmental issue. Therefore, energy-efficient protocols are needed to balance the trade-off between energy saving and bandwidth utilization. The key component of the desired protocol to prevent both energy and bandwidth waste is interference mitigati...

Could androids use movements to build relationships? For people, relationships are created with the help of behaviour-shaping norms,which infants begin to discover andmanipulate by the thirdmonth.To build relationships, machines can also learn to exploit human reactions in real-time decision-making. In the video gameTetris, for example, affect co-opts computer-generated patterns to simplify cog...

This document requests one Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for a class of real-time traffic. This traffic class conforms to the Expedited Forwarding Per-Hop Behavior. This traffic is also admitted by the network using a Call Admission Control (CAC) procedure involving authentication, authorization, and capacity admission. This differ...

In this paper, we propose a self-optimized coverage function for LTE femtocells embedded in a macrocell area. Each Femto Base Station (FBS) adapts its pilot power, and thus the coverage, to the on-site traffic demand. Under low traffic conditions the FBSs, whose presence is not essential for the proper operation of the network, reside in a low power Listen Mode. In this way a relevant energy sa...

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background: the aim of this study was investigate drinking, driving, and socio-behavioral factors among university students in low and middle income and emerging economy countries. methods: using anonymous questionnaires, data were collected from 18476 university students, of which 15151 (82.0%) were drivers of a car or motorcycle (41.3% men and 58.7% women), with a mean age of 20.7 years (sd=2...