Identifying information sources influential to travel decisions helps tourism planners strategically utilize resources to improve marketing efforts and create a strong destination image. An on-line survey (N=973) on destination brand image research was developed and implemented. The study examined image perceptions of Austria and what level of influence various information sources have on desti...

Cooperative diversity uses relays which assist source destination transmissions to reduce link outage rates in multipath fading environments. In this paper, an Amplify-and-Forward (AAF) cooperative communication system over Nakagami-m fading channel is considered where a source node communicates with a destination node directly and indirectly (through multiple relays). Nakagami-m fading channel...

A key component for vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) simulations is a realistic vehicular mobility model, as this ensures that the conclusions drawn from simulation experiments will carry through to the real deployments. Node mobility in a vehicular network is strongly affected by the driving behaviour such as route choices. While route choice models have been extensively studied in the transp...

This paper presents an outage performance of multiple access relay channel (MARC) for decode-and-forward (DF) relay and amplify-and-forward (AF) relay selection. We consider the multiple-access relay channel with two source nodes, one relay node and one destination node. In MARC, multiple sources transmit to a common destination simultaneously with the assistance of a single relay. In a relayin...

This paper focuses on a joint relay-selection and resource-allocation algorithm for an Amplify-andForward (AF) cooperative network. In a multiuser scenario, joint relay selection and power allocation is a combinational problem for heterogeneous, i.e., real time (RT) and non-real time (NRT), users. In single relay AF (S-AF) scheme, a source-destination pair selects best relay. Thus only two chan...

As internet usage rapidly increases in both private and corporate sectors, the study of network intrusion detection is continuously becoming more relevant and has thus been evolving substantially in recent years. One of the most interesting techniques in the network intrusion detection system (NIDS) is the feature selection technique. The ability of NIDS to accurately identify intrusion from th...

We propose an incremental relaying protocol in conjunction with partial relay selection with the aim of making efficient use of the degrees of freedom of the channels as well as improving the performance of dual hop relaying with partial relay selection (DRPRS). Specifically, whenever the direct link from the source to the destination is not favorable to decoding, the destination will request t...

Destination descriptions are route descriptions focusing on the ‘where’ of the destination instead of the ‘how’ to reach it. They provide first a coarse reference to the destination, and then increasingly more detailed ones as the description proceeds. In this paper, we introduce a definition of destination descriptions, along with an analysis of the construction and interpretation of destinati...

Introduction: Although many factors can affect the choice of destination in medical tourism, some factors are indispensable to medical tourists and medical tourism. The aim of this study was to analyze important factors affecting the selection of a destination by potential medical tourists. Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study, conducted in Tu...