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In this paper simulation results of the bit error rate (BER) performance of an all-optical multiwavelength slotted-ring metropolitan area network (MAN) are presented. The simulation results provide insight into the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) degradation as the optical ring is scaled up in terms of the number of access points on it. The results also enable us to understand the effect of inband ...

Tradeoff between different resources (bitrate, computational time, etc.) and compression quality, often referred to as rate-distortion optimization (RDO), is a key problem in video coding. With a little exaggeration, it can be claimed that what distinguishes between a good and a bad codec is how optimally it finds such a tradeoff. This is the first part of our paper presenting an algorithm for ...

In July, Mexico’s National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) released new statistics on poverty in Mexico. They show that Mexico's poverty rate fell slightly between 2010 and 2012, dropping 0.6 percent, from 46.1 percent to 45.5 percent. Nonetheless, during the same period the number of people living in poverty actually increased from 52.8 million to 53.3 million...

This letter presents BREATHe, a simple packet dropping scheme for identifying and throttling unresponsive or misbehaving highbandwidth flows during times of congestion. BREATHe is different from the existing active queue management techniques in that it uses heavy-hitter set analysis to identify highbandwidth flows rather than sampling or rate estimation. Specifically, BREATHe uses heavy-hitter...

It is well-known that analysis of incomplete Cholesky and LU decompositions with a general dropping is very difficult and of limited applicability, see, for example, the results on modified decompositions [1], [2], [3] and later results based on similar concepts. This is true not only for the dropping based on magnitude of entries but it also applies to algorithms that use a prescribed sparsity...

To increase the quality of service in adaptive routers, this paper proposes a service oriented buffer management algorithm. This paper use different buffers for different service packets and the buffer controller maintains the buffer size according to flow of incoming packets. The buffer controller increases or decreases the buffer size at each input and output port by monitoring the rate of in...