Optical Burst Switching (OBS) network proposed as future optical internet is capable of carrying bursty traffic and adapting to the present technological constraints. Since the OBS network is buffer-less in nature, contention resolution using deflection technique received much attention. Deflection routing can work with limited optical buffering or even no buffering. This paper gives an overvie...

Binocular digital imaging is a rapidly developing branch of digital imaging. Any such system must have some means that allows each eye to see only the image intended for it. We describe a time-division multiplexing technique that we have developed for Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGITM) workstations. We utilize the “double buffering” hardware feature of the SGITM graphics system for binocular image r...

Synchronous Dataflow, a subset of dataflow, is a commonly used model of computation in block diagram DSP programming environments. Because of the limited amount of memory in embedded DSPs, a key problem during software synthesis from SDF specifications is the minimization of the memory used by the target code. We develop a powerful formal technique called buffer merging that attempts to overlay...

We describe a novel buffering technique for increasing the A-scan rate of swept source optical coherence tomography (SSOCT) systems employing low duty cycle swept source lasers. This technique differs from previously reported buffering techniques in that it employs a fast optical switch, capable of switching in 60 ns, instead of a fused fiber coupler at the end of the buffering stage, and is th...

In the conventional router architecture of Network-on-Chips (NoCs), each input port employs a set dedicated flit buffers to store incoming flits. This mechanism unevenly distributes flits among buffers, which in turn leads higher packet blocking rates and under-utilization buffers. this paper, we address problem by proposing two novel buffering mechanisms their corresponding architectures share...

Using the Visual DSD language and tool for describing DNA computational structures, we investigate a gate buffering technique that helps maintaining desired reaction kinetics for unbounded time. We test it by simulation on an oscillator and on an ultrasensitive system.

In this work, we present a Colored Petri Net (CPN) model used for prototyping and modeling a complex switching scheme for ATM switches based on the combined I/O buffering technique. The new scheme is evaluated here within an overall setting that includes the traffic regulations enforced by the leaky bucket algorithm. It is based on splitting the traffic coming into input lines into two priority...

True-VOD provides interactive on-demand (i.e., virtually zero start-up delay) video service by allocating each user a dedicated stream. Such streaming technique, however, cannot scale up to accommodate a large number of users. A more scalable solution is to use multicasting and client buffering. In this paper, we propose a client-initiated (client-pull) on-demand scheme in which short unicast s...

In this work we focus on vehicular area networks. A group of customers, located into a same public vehicle, is connected to the terrestrial network through a satellite backbone connectivity. We propose to deploy on-board proxies, which rely on elastic buffering mechanisms as a mean to decouple the multimedia information retrieval rate on the network backbone from the play-out streaming rate at ...