This paper focuses on the problem of distributed sequence prediction in a network of sparsely interconnected agents, where agents collaborate to achieve provably reasonable predictive performance. An expert assisted online learning algorithm in a distributed setup of the consensus+innovations form is proposed, in which the agents update their weights for the experts’ predictions by simultaneous...

This paper proposes a dynamic shared-memory packet buffer management algorithm for a protocol processor in a network terminal. The protocol processor is located in a network interface card (NIC). In general, two types of packet buffer management algorithms, static and dynamic, can be used in a NIC; the dynamic buffer management algorithms work better than the static ones for reducing the packet...

We present a construction to transmit high quality video streams, such as MPEG-video in realtime over lossy channels. To protect our messages against losses in the network during transit we use a new Forward Error Correction (FEC) scheme called Erasure Resilient Transmission (ERT). Unfortunately a lot of losses are not caused by the network itself but by bu er over ows in the receiver machine w...

This paper describes an advantageous method for using the capacitor banks in the distribution network, optimally. The aim is to determine the count, location and capacitor values in order to minimize the annual cost resulting from energy losses and capacitor bank’s installation cost. Besides, in the case of having nonlinear loads in the network, by installing capacitors in appropriate locations...

Failures in the water distribution network are some most important factors in water losses, water shortage and dissatisfaction of users and secondary pollutions as well. This research aimed to analyze failure in water distribution networks during 2006-2008, for better water management. Daily failure reports in Ahvaz, Iran distribution network during 2006-2008, were collected from emergency depa...

This paper proposes a framework for network management intended to balance network performance under normal steady operational conditions with robustness under non-steady, and/or adverse conditions. Working in conjunction with anomaly and/or intrusion detection, the proposed framework allows the network to develop a set of measured responses to possible anomalies and external threats by minimiz...

Troubleshooting network performance issues is a challenging task especially in large-scale data center networks. This paper presents deTector, a network monitoring system that is able to detect and localize network failures (manifested mainly by packet losses) accurately in near real time while minimizing the monitoring overhead. deTector achieves this goal by tightly coupling detection and loc...

This paper presents allocation of power losses to consumers connected to radial distribution network before and after network reconfiguration in a deregulated environment. Loss allocation is made in a quadratic way, which is based on identifying the real and imaginary parts of current in each branch and losses are allocated to consumers. Comparison of loss allocation after multi-objective appro...

Power system losses can be divided into two categories: technical losses and non-technical losses. Technical losses are naturally occurring losses (caused by actions internal to the power system) and consist mainly of power dissipation in electrical system components such as transmission lines, power transformers, measurement systems, etc. Technical losses result from the impedance of the netwo...

Regarding the nature of non-linear discrete placement, and in order to determine the optimal capacity of the substation, the goal in the present study will be a number of local optimum points. In this research, the problem of optimal placement posts to reduce power losses by considering Distributed Generation (DG). In formulating the objective function, geographical distribution density in the ...