In overlay-based applications, multiple overlay networks are deployed to fulfill different service requirements. A multioverlay environment may exist in which a number of nodes simultaneously participate in the networks. When there are multiple overlay-based applications running over a set of nodes, some of the nodes take extra effort to maintain multi-overlay networks. Therefore, maintaining t...

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) can provide seamless broadband connectivity to network users with low setup and maintenance costs. To support nextgeneration applications with real-time requirements, however, these networks must provide improved quality of service guarantees. Current mesh protocols use techniques that fail to accurately predict the performance of end-to-end paths, and do not optim...

Numerous bridges are exposed to increasingly frequent and intense extreme events due climate change, while serving more traffic than originally designed population growth. Thus, predictive maintenance of is paramount importance for securing structural safety bridge network reliability. However, the application networks bridges, considering condition criticality within network, has not seen much...

—Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are selforganizing, rapidly deployable networks without any fixed infrastructure. In MANETs, mobile terminals can move freely, which cause frequent link breakage. Due to the dynamic nature of the network, finding a stable route for transmitting data is a challenging task. In order to adapt to the topological changes and provide some quality of service (QoS), th...

Abstract: Equipment maintenance is one of the core tasks in power system operations. The premise and foundation for maintenance is to establish a power equipment maintenance model, which should reflect all equipment states accurately including operation, inspection and maintenance. On the basis of the analysis of the traditional state diagram probability model, an improvement is put forward to ...