As a result of recent changes in the policy governing Internet content distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for Internet radio broadcasters, content distributors now have an incentive to under-report the size of their audience. Existing metering protocols only protect against inflation of audience size. We introduce the first protocols for audience metering that prote...

A method is presented to divide the measured total congestion in any freeway section into three ‘slices’: (1) the delay that collisions cause; (2) the potential reduction in delay at bottlenecks that ideal ramp metering can achieve; and (3) the remaining delay, due mainly to excess demand, but also to all other causes, including non-collision incidents, lane closures, and weather. The method in...

Smart Grids are becoming a reality all over the world. Nowadays, the research efforts for the introduction and deployment of these grids are mainly focused on the development of the field of Smart Metering. This emerging application requires the use of technologies to access the significant number of points of supply (PoS) existing in the grid, covering the Low Voltage (LV) segment with the low...

In order to decide on advertisement fees for web servers, Naor and Pinkas introduced (threshold) metering schemes secure against coalitions of corrupt servers and clients. Several researchers have generalized the idea of Naor and Pinkas: first metering scheme with pricing and dynamic multi-threshold metering schemes have been proposed; later the solution has been extended to allow general acces...

To control the traffic flows near on-ramps and off-ramps, ramp metering installations can be used. We compare on-ramp metering and off-ramp metering, with respect to queue forming and total time spent. Both control measures are used to improve traffic flow on freeways, and both have influence on the route choice of the drivers. Although the two measures are very similar, there are some major di...

During the last century, there has been considerable economic growth and development of cities around the world. The growth has led to an expansion of car-ownership and ultimately increased congestion of the road network. Traffic engineers and transport planners have attempted to mitigate the consequences of congestion of motorways and freeways using a number of techniques. One of which has bee...

This documents presents an overview of current audio level and loudness measuring techniques and concepts, in the context of musical and post-production environments. It proposes a metering application, which is currently in early development, which should address metering needs currently unsatisfied in Linux.

Differentiated Services (Diffserv) which was proposed by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is a scalable and robust model for providing the end-to-end QoS. In the Diffserv networks, metering mechanisms are used to measure traffic stream. The single rate Three Color Meter (srTCM) [1],which was proposed by IETF,‏ meters an IP packet stream and marks its packets either green, yellow, or red....

The smart grid initiative with emphasis on Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) has attracted attention to various individuals and governments in the energy industry. This research proposes a Cloud Energy Metering System (CEMS) based on a precision metering IC (ADE7756) and PIC embedded controller (PIC 16F887) with an RF communication link. This will communicate with a location based Enterpri...

With the emergence of the modern roundabout as an effective form of traffic control in the United States, more and more information is needed when situations arise in which additional traffic control is required. The signalization and metering of roundabouts can relieve congestion during peak hours of the day as well as possibly provide safer access for pedestrians and cyclists. Although the si...