Efficient and scalable information dissemination is important in network management, packet routing and auto configuration. Given the very nature of a mobile ad hoc network, this information dissemination provides a challenging problem. This paper introduces a new packet flooding mechanism for information dissemination in mobile ad hoc networks. Neighbor Aware Adapative Power (NAAP) flooding, a...

We introduce Divnet, a flexible technique for learning networks with diverse neurons. Divnet models neuronal diversity by placing a Determinantal Point Process (DPP) over neurons in a given layer. It uses this DPP to select a subset of diverse neurons and subsequently fuses the redundant neurons into the selected ones. Compared with previous approaches, Divnet offers a more principled, flexible...

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is emerging as an all pervasive ubiquitous technology which holds the promise of revolutionizing supply chain management applications. The volume of information generated by such system is enormous. Managing such high volume of data poses the challenges to applications as well as back-end databases. This data is redundant, needs to be consolidated and reduc...

Multiplication is a very important operation in digital computing systems. Both signed and unsigned multiplications are required in many computing applications. A unified implementation of signed/unsigned multiplier using redundant binary number representations is proposed in this paper * .

This report describes a quantification method for luminance non-uniformity of a large LED backlight. In experiments described herein, participants subjectively evaluated artificial indistinct Mura images that simulated luminance non-uniformity of an LED backlight. We measured the luminance distribution of the Mura images. Then, the measured luminance distribution was converted into S-CIELAB, in...

If coaching is largely about shifting and expanding people’s perspectives in a way that they can translate into daily actions, then working with individual belief systems and assumptions is vital. Beyond these individual creeds, coaching has to explore the embedded collective paradigms, which feel to humans like the water that fish blissfully and obliviously swim in. This is why we are discussi...