There is a growing demand for wireless services with different requirements in a dense and heterogeneous wireless environment. Handling this complex ecosystem is becoming a challenging issue, and wireless virtualization emerges as an efficient solution. Although the inclusion of virtualization in wireless networks ensures a better use of resources, current approaches adopted for wireless virtua...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluates the ability of MRI to quantify all major carotid atherosclerotic plaque components in vivo. METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty-one subjects scheduled for carotid endarterectomy were imaged with a 1.5T scanner using time-of-flight-, T1-, proton density-, and T2-weighted images. A total of 214 MR imaging locations were matched to corresponding histology sections. For MRI ...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems, due to recent technological advances, are being deployed in large scale for different applications. However, this requires a dense deployment of readers to cover the working area. Without optimizing reader's distribution and number, many of the readers will be redundant, reducing the efficiency of the whole RFID system. The problem of eliminating r...

‎In this paper we take $mathcal A$ to be the category {bf Pos-S}‎ ‎of $S$-posets‎, ‎for a posemigroup $S$‎, ${mathcal M}_{pd}$ to‎ ‎be the class of partially ordered sequantially-dense‎ ‎monomorphisms and study the categorical properties‎, ‎such as‎ ‎limits and colimits‎, ‎of this class‎. ‎These properties are usually‎ ‎needed to study the homological notions‎, ‎such as injectivity‎, ‎of‎ ‎$S$-...

In a multi-reader environment, RFID system performance will be limited by the reader collision problem. RFID readers use different channels to minimise collision. However, with limited channels, the in-channel collision will happen. Using a path loss model, this paper predicts the safe distance between the readers before collisions occur in a same channel. This paper also explores the complicat...