The spatial preferred attachment (SPA) model is a model for networked information spaces such as domains of the World Wide Web, citation graphs, and on-line social networks. It uses a metric space to model the hidden attributes of the vertices. Thus, vertices are elements of a metric space, and link formation depends on the metric distance between vertices. We show, through theoretical analysis...

Reliability of wireless transmission has been identified as an instrumental property in future 5G wireless systems due to the service expansion of 3GPP networks into domains such as Automotive and Industry. Apriori indication of the availability of the transmission link would enable oppurtunistic scheduling of safety critical services/applications when the link conditions are fair enough. Tradi...

This paper presents a new routing metric for mobile ad hoc networks. It considers both coverage area as well as link expiration information, which in turn requires position, speed and direction information of nodes in the network. With this new metric, a routing protocol obtains routes that last longer with as few hops as possible. The proposed routing metric is implemented with Ad Hoc On-Deman...

— In this paper, we introduce a novel link layer cooperation technique in noisy wireless networks to improve overall system throughput and reliability, and to reduce the cost of retransmission and energy consumption. Under a cluster-based network design, code combining [1] is used together with FEC to improve the link layer reliability. This approach is different from how code combining is used...

This paper uses a simulation-based optimization framework to investigate the added value of using higherorder distributional information from detailed traffic simulators to address signal control problems. In particular, this paper uses higher-order travel time distributional information to derive signal plans that account for travel time reliability. In order to derive computationally efficien...

Wireless sensor networks are often used in applications where message confidentiality, integrity, and authentication are required. Cryptography is a common mechanism for meeting these security requirements. The use of cryptography requires that nodes share secret keys, which are typically assigned to each node according to key distribution schemes. Given a key distribution, there is currently n...

In IEEE 802.16 Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) routing, delay aware load balancing can be achieved by selecting the shortest path with low latency and network load. But network load and latency together are not considered in most of the existing routing metrics. Here, we propose a delay aware load balanced routing protocol for wireless mesh networks by designing a combined route metric. Initially,...

DC-link capacitors are an important part in the majority of power electronic converters which contribute to cost, size and failure rate on a considerable scale. From capacitor users’ viewpoint, this paper presents a review on the improvement of reliability of dc link in power electronic converters from two aspects: 1) reliability-oriented dc-link design solutions; 2) conditioning monitoring of ...