This study presents an approach to the task of automatically classifying and detecting speaking styles. The detection of speaking styles is useful for the segmentation of multimedia data into consistent parts and has important applications, such as identifying speech segments to train acoustic models for speech recognition. In this work the database consists of daily news broadcasts in Portugue...

This paper describes one of the challenging issues implied by scientific infrastructures on a mobile robot cognition architecture. For a generally applicable cognition architec‐ ture, we study the dependencies and logical relations between several tasks and subsystems. The overall view of the software modules is described, including their relation‐ ship with a fault management module that monit...

Reactive routing protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks usually discover routes by disseminating control packets across the entire network; this technique is known as brute-force flooding. This paper presents NARD, which stands for neighbor-assisted route discovery protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks. In NARD, a source node floods a limited portion of the network searching not only for the destin...

– Many studies have been performed to improve the efficiency of mobile IP. Hierarchical MIPv6 (HMIPv6) was proposed due to the lack of MIPv6. The new protocol, that is, Mobility Anchor Point (MAP) receives all packets in place of Mobile Node (MN) and MAP services are transferred to Care of Address (CoA) of MN. However, it can affect the whole network owing to concentration phase of registration...

This paper presents a novel range-free single chord localization algorithm with low energy consumption and high accuracy for wireless sensor networks. A mobile anchor node and a mobile reference node are employed to periodically broadcast beacon messages and reference messages, respectively. Each sensor node is equipped with a received signal strength indicator for comparing the signal strength...

Agent based micro-mobility protocols such as Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 deploy special IPv6 nodes called Mobility Agents that act as an anchor point between the Mobile Node and the Home Agent providing localized mobility support. The location and the number of MAs deployed within the network can affect the performance of the protocol. This paper deals with the problem of Mobility Agent (MA) locat...

Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) both are the mobility management solutions proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to support IP Mobility. It’s been an important issue, that upon certain condition, out of MIPv6 and HMIPv6 which one is better. In this paper an Optimum Efficient Mobility Management (OEMM) scheme is described on the basis of analytical mode...

This document specifies a method to split the control plane (CP) and user plane (UP) for a network infrastructure based on Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6). Existing specifications allow a mobile access gateway (MAG) to separate its control and user plane using the Alternate Care-of Address mobility option for IPv6 or Alternate IPv4 Care-of Address option for IPv4. However, the current specification ...

Severe natural conditions and complex terrain make it difficult to apply precise localization in underground mines. In this paper, an anchor-free localization method for mobile targets is proposed based on non-metric multi-dimensional scaling (Multi-dimensional Scaling: MDS) and rank sequence. Firstly, a coal mine wireless sensor network is constructed in underground mines based on the ZigBee t...