The Geological Strength Index (GSI) system is the basis of parameters used in Hoek-Brown failure criterion for rock mass strength estimation. author tested this and here suggests a modified GSI called Index-slope (GSIslope). combines two different existing approaches: Slope Mass Rating (SMR). purpose GSIslope to allow engineering geologists quickly evaluate stability natural excavated slopes or...

A multiple description scalar quantization (MDSQ) based coding system can be regarded as a source coder (quantizer) followed by a channel coder, i.e. the combination of index and codeword assignment. The redundancy, or the correlation between the descriptions, is controlled by the number of diagonals covered by the index assignment. In this paper, we analyse dependencies between the variables i...

The throughput achievable in truncated Hybrid ARQ protocol (HARQ) using incremental redundancy (IR) in analyzed when transmitting over a block-fading channel whose state is unknown at the transmitter. We allow the transmission lengths to vary, optimize them efficiently via dynamic programming, and show that such a variable-rate HARQ-IR provides gains with respect to a fixedrate transmission in ...

in this paper, we study different methods of solving joint redundancy-availability optimization for series-parallel systems with multi-state components. we analyzed various effective factors on system availability in order to determine the optimum number and version of components in each sub-system and consider the effects of improving failure rates of each component in each sub-system and impr...