In this paper, we present SBAC (Soft Bound Admission Control) algorithm considering critical bandwidth ratio to reduce handover blocking probability over WLAN and WAAN (Wide Area Access Network). SBAC algorithm utilizes dynamically optimized resource allocation scheme to decrease the blocking probability of vertical handover connections within the limited capacity of system. Based on SBAC algor...

Due to their industrial relevance, phenolic compounds (PC) are amongst the most common organic pollutants found in many industrial wastewater effluents. The potential detrimental health and environmental impacts of PC necessitate their removal from wastewater to meet regulatory discharge standards to ensure meeting sustainable development goals. In recent decades, one of the promising, cost-eff...

With the advent of semantic technology, access control cannot be done in a safe way unless the access decision takes into account the semantic relationships among the entities in a semantic-aware environment. SBAC model considers this issue in its decision making process. However, time plays a crucial role in new computing environments which is not supported in the model. In this paper we intro...

Treatment of stormwater via sorption has the potential to remove both colloidal and dissolved pollutants. Previous research shows that activated carbon produced from sewage sludge is very efficient in sorbing hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs), frequently detected in stormwater. The aim of this research was to determine whether the presence of dissolved organic matter (DOM) has a negative eff...

The latter-day H.265/HEVC video compression standard is able to provide two-times higher compression efficiency compared to the current industrial standard, H.264/AVC. However, coding complexity also increased. The main bottleneck of the compression process is the rate-distortion optimization (RDO) stage, as it involves numerous sequential syntax-based binary arithmetic coding (SBAC) loops. In ...

With the advent of semantic technology, access control cannot be done in a safe way unless the access decision takes into account the semantic relationships between entities in a semantic-aware environment. SBAC model considers this issue in the decision making process. However, time plays a crucial role in new computing environments which is not supported in this model. In this paper we introd...

We use a session-based workload to measure a web server's performance. An overloaded web server can experience a severe loss of throughput when measured as the number of completed sessions. Moreover, the overloaded web server discriminates against longer sessions. Session based admission control (SBAC), introduced in [2], prevents a web server from becoming overloaded and ensures that longer se...

Semantic Web is the vision for future of current Web which aims at automation, integration and reuse of data among different Web applications. The shift to Semantic Web applications poses new requirements for security mechanisms especially in the access control models as a critical component of security systems. Access to resources can not be controlled in a safe way unless the access decision ...

This paper presents a new Similarity Based Agglomerative Clustering(SBAC) algorithm that works well for data with mixed numeric and nominal features. A similarity measure, proposed by Goodall for biological taxonomy[13], that gives greater weight to uncommon feature-value matches in similarity computations and makes no assumptions of the underlying distributions of the feature-values, is adopte...