This paper examines Boorman’s much-maligned sci-fi extravaganza, Zardoz, from a psychoanalytical perspective, drawing largely on Freud, Lacan, and Christian Metz. As well as engaging with the film an exercise in psychoanalytic approach to film, situates that reading of Zardoz within broader studies discourses considers why discipline Film Theory so rarely engages so-called ‘bad cinema’. This, t...

0163-6804/97/$10.00 © 1997 IEEE he trends in telecommunications are proceeding with a strong tendency toward increasing need for mobility in the access links within the network. Examples are: • Residential line access with the proliferation of cordless phones (their penetration rate has passed that of fixed phones in the United States, for instance) • Business lines with wireless private branch...

This paper proposes an efficient multicast search scheme based on bipartite graph matching model, aiming at one of the most important problems in the multicast service, how can the wireless network track and locate the mobile uses in the idle state, under the tight bandwidth and delay constraints,. By quantifying the location uncertainty of mobile users with Shannon's entropy, the scheme adopts...

In this thesis we introduce and evaluate several new models for the analysis of online algorithms. In an online problem, the algorithm does not know the entire input from the beginning; the input is revealed in a sequence of steps. At each step the algorithm should make its decisions based on the past and without any knowledge about the future. Many important real-life problems such as paging a...

The main objective of this paper is to present a mechanism of enhanced paging support for the second generation microkernels in the form of explicit support of multi-pager environment for the tasks running in the system. Proposed mechanism is based on the intra-kernel high granularity pagers assignments per virtual address space, which allow efficient and simple dispatching of page faults to th...

Location management plays the central role in providing ubiquitous communications services in the future wireless mobile networks. Location update and paging are commonly used in tracking mobile users on the move, location update is to update a mobile user’s current location while the paging is used to locate a mobile user, both will incur signaling traffic in the wireless networks. The more fr...

This paper describes a general framework for out-of-core rendering and management of massive terrain surfaces. The two key components of this framework are: view-dependent refinement of the terrain mesh; and a simple scheme for organizing the terrain data to improve coherence and reduce the number of paging events from external storage to main memory. Similar to several previously proposed meth...