The combination of a removable storage device with a communication channel and a computation node is a common architectural theme in many system-on-chip (SOC) designs. The systems in which many of these devices are placed produce or consume digital media content from their removable storage devices, which are formatted with industrystandard file systems. When the communication channel is USB, t...

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission....

We apply the theoretical model of endogenous reference-dependence of Ok, Ortoleva and Riella (2011) to the theory of vertical product differentiation. We analyze the standard problem of a monopolist who offers a menu of alternatives to consumers of different types, but we allow for agents to exhibit a form of endogenous reference dependence like the attraction effect. We show that the presence ...

A comprehensive health and patient monitoring and data recording system has been developed using wireless sensor networks and supporting device and web infrastructure. This paper describes the components of the overall system. This includes the network architecture, node architecture, software infrastructure for recording data locally on servers as well as on Microsoft HealthVault data reposito...

Redundancy is a major concern to satellite communication amplifier systems. This paper examines the various types of redundant systems used in satellite communication systems from a system reliability viewpoint. To overcome the ambiguities involved with comparing MTBFs, the paper discusses amplifier reliability based on static reliability concepts. Both traditional switched redundant systems an...