Abstract Dropping behavior is an effective antipredator defense utilized by many insects including aphids, which drop from plants to lower plant parts or underlying substrates avoid attack predatory invertebrates. While research commonly focusses on triggers of dropping, less attention given what happens prey individuals following escape drops. In this study, the duration tonic immobility, reco...

Our aim is to present constructions in which some of the cofinalities drop down, i.e. the generators of PCF structure are far a part. 1 Some Preliminary Settings Let λ0 < κ0 < λ1 < κ1 < ... < λn < κn < ...., n < ω be a sequence of cardinals such that for each n < ω • λn is λ +n+2 n +2 n strong as witnessed by an extender Eλn • κn is κ +n+2 n +2 n strong as witnessed by an extender Eκn Let κ = ⋃...

In this paper we consider the problem of joint optimal power and admission control for a single user queue. The user may be in a finite set of channel fading states, each of which corresponds to a certain power-rate function. The user may choose a particular transmission power level and incur a cost that increases with the power. Packets arrive at the queue as a Poisson process with a constant ...

Recently, several new packet dropping mechanisms have been proposed for the Internet routers to achieve fair bandwidth allocation among the adaptive TCP applications and the emerging constant bit rate (CBR) multimedia applications which do not adapt their traffic rates. However, these mechanisms lead to waste of router bandwidth which in turn reduces throughput of contending TCP applications, w...

This paper proposes a novel call admission control scheme capable of providing a combination of call and packet level quality of service requirements in cellular packet networks. Specifically, we propose a distributed call admission control scheme called PFG, which maximizes the wireless channel utilization subject to a predetermined bound on the call dropping and packet loss probabilities for ...

Rate shaping plays an important role in transmitting compressed video on a network with dynamic bandwidth. In this paper, we present a scheme for rate shaping JPEG/MPEG-precompressed im-age/video with feature analysis in scale space. The proposed scheme draws its strengths from a technique for identifying perceptually important features based on geometry-driven diiusion, an interpolation scheme...

We propose a new resource allocation scheme based on the concept of resource reservation and resource renegotiation. The new scheme is aimed at improving performance with regard to new call blocking rate, handoff dropping rate, forced call termination rate, and average bandwidth use. We compare our scheme with other schemes. The performance is evaluated by using simulation. Copyright  2001 Joh...

Call admission control is a key element for providing quality of service (QoS) in mobile wireless networks. Traditional admission control schemes only address call-level QoS guarantee because of the underlying circuit-based network architecture. In contrast, emerging wireless technologies such as 3G and 4G tend to be packet-switched rather than circuit-switched because the packet-based architec...

The Random early detection (RED) active queue management (AQM) scheme uses the average queue size to calculate the dropping probability in terms of minimum and maximum thresholds. The effect of heavy load enhances the frequency of crossing the maximum threshold value resulting in frequent dropping of the packets. An adaptive queue management with random dropping (AQMRD) algorithm is proposed wh...