In order to achieve the integrated optimization in developing the big network system, this paper presented the concepts and principles of layered design method and collaborative development using of different tools firstly. Then we gave a recommended layered architecture for the distributed computing network system and also analyzed its pros and cons. At last, we extended the distributed comput...

This paper proposes a functional architecture for protocol systems, as opposed to the conventional temporally layered one. Each block of information to be communicated is operated on by several organs, e.g. for routing, integrity and flow control. The architecture retains a skeleton protocol stack to determine the sequence of these operations. However, unlike conventional stacks, the operators ...

Postmodernism is a very ambiguous term. It attracted many researchers from different fields of knowledge in the late 1960s. This article explains intertextuality as a critical means to derive its concepts and components in order to understand the hidden layers of meaning in postmodern pluralist ideology. Variable thoughts of postmodern architecture have been divided into two categories—Hi...

In this paper we aim at developing a solution to fairly allocating bandwidth among unicast and multicast flows. For this purpose, we propose the anycast max-min fairness criterion, which is based on the well known max-min fairness criterion for unicast. We then present an efficient implementation of the proposed criterion: the Multicast Fair Bandwidth Allocation (MFBA) architecture. The MFBA ar...

We describe the design and partial implementation of a real time architecture for a mobile robot, aimed particularly towards a vehicle developed for factory automation.. We develop a layered design to equip the robot with a number of behavioural competences. We examine sensing and a potential field algorithm especially to achieve modification of behaviour a t a speed close to the robot’s operat...

Digital innovation entails the combining of digital and physical components to produce novel products. The materiality of digital artifacts, particularly the separation between their material (e.g., hardware) and immaterial features (e.g., software and data), which is expressed through a layered architecture, lays the foundation for the generative potential of digital innovation. Gaining an und...