Switching costs are prevalent in network industries, and this paper investigates their effects on market outcome. I find that the role of switching costs depends on network effects and the outside option. Without a viable outside option, high switching costs can neutralize the tendency towards market dominance associated with network effects, but with a viable outside option, switching costs fa...

this paper presents a gaussian radial basis function neural network based on sliding mode control for trajectory tracking and vibration control of a flexible joint manipulator. to study the effectiveness of the controllers, designed controller is developed for tip angular position control of a flexible joint manipulator. the adaptation laws of designed controller are obtained based on sliding m...

History and economics have set the stage for the move to grooming at 2.5 Gbps granularity in the core of optical mesh networks. The evolution of core grooming speeds to the STS-48 granularity level is a continuation of a cycle that began with the introduction of narrowband cross-connects into the network over 20 years ago. Since then, cross-connect grooming granularity has increased from 64 Kbp...

According to handoff management problem of mobile IPv6 network, when the mobile node accesses field network and leaves home network, to switch link, it will appear the decline of quality of service or business interruption. Accordingly, the paper proposed a hierarchy of handoff management scheme for the integrated multi-protocol label switching in mobile IPV6 network. With analysis on architect...

I investigate the e¤ects of switching costs on the market outcome in network industries using a dynamic duopoly model of price competition in the presence of an outside option. I …nd that the role of switching costs depends on network e¤ects and the outside option. Without a viable outside option, high switching costs can neutralize the tendency towards high market concentration associated with...

This paper presents a soft-switching DC-DC boost converter, which can be utilized in renewable energy systems such as photovoltaic array, and wind turbine connections to infinite bus of a big power network, using grid connected inverters. In the proposed topology for the DC-DC boost converter, the main and the auxiliary power switches are turned on and turned off with zero voltage switching (ZV...

Most of the initial efforts to utilize Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) have been related to environments hosting devices with a single switching capability. The complexity raised by the control of such data planes is similar to that seen in classical IP/MPLS networks. By extending MPLS to support multiple switching technologies, GMPLS provides a comprehensive framework for the control of a multi-layer...