This paper explores a spectrally efficient, variable rate transmission scheme under a service outage constraint for a block fading channel model. The service outage constraint is motivated by real time variable rate applications. In a service outage, the transmission code rate is below a given basic rate and may in fact be zero. Unlike an information outage in the capacity versus outage problem...

additional advantages of RCBR are that it is easy to implement, since CBR service is well understood and we are merely adding a fast renegotiation component to it. By building on CBR service, we make the network design simple, since neither complex scheduling disciplines nor large network buuers are required for CBR traac. It has recently come to our notice that Chong et al 2] have independentl...

patient satisfaction is one of the sensitive indicators in determining the effectiveness of service rendered in hospitals. the study focus on comparing the health care services of  two cardiology based corporate hospitals in hyderabad, andhra pradesh, india. the data for the study was collected through a questionnaire consisting of two sections. an attempt has been made to elicit the informatio...

A shaper is a system that stores incoming bits in a bu er and delivers them as early as possible, while forcing the output to be constrained with a given arrival curve. A shaper is time invariant if the tra c constraint is dened by a xed arrival curve; it is time varying if the condition on the output is given by a time varying tra c contract. This occurs, for example, with renegotiable variabl...