Browsing by Author "Biaz, Saad"

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Improving Vehicular Networking Reliability and Efficiency in the Context of Platooning Applications

Gao, Song (2016-05-23)

Vehicular networking is a technology that enables vehicles communication system. A joint effort from the automobile industry, transportation industry, and government offices is driving the adoption of this technology to ...

Incast-free TCP for Data Center Networks

Kulkarni, Santosh (2012-10-03)

Cloud Computing is a computing paradigm that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet, based on a `pay-per-use' approach. This new style of computing, promises to revolutionize the IT industry by making computing ...

Learning based approaches to achieve better statistics in Big Data

Paul, Parag (2023-04-28)

Statistics in Big data has multiple applications. There are industrial systems that depend on quick and accurate insights into possible anomalies and irregularities on a large scale, for them to take better business ...

Link Quality Characterization in IEEE 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networks

Abid, Mohamed Riduan (2010-12-09)

HWMP (Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol) has been set as the default routing protocol for the ongoing IEEE 802.11s WMN (Wireless Mesh Network) standard. Unlike most multi-hop routing protocols, which operate at the network ...

Location Estimation in Wireless Networks

Ji, Yiming (2006-05-15)

Wireless location determination has attracted much attention lately due to its many applications in mobile (sensor) networking including target tracking and network intrusion detection. However, it is challenging due to ...

Low-Bandwidth Three Dimensional Mapping and Latency Reducing Model Prediction to Improve Teleoperation of Robotic Vehicles

Woodall, William (2012-07-25)

This thesis uses novel three dimensional sensors like the Microsoft Kinect [1] and the Asus Xtion Pro Live [2] to generate three dimensional environments and use the recon- structed environment with a predictive model in ...

A Meta-Parallel Evolutionary System for Solving Optimization Problems

Britt, Winard (2007-05-15)

The purpose of the Meta-Parallel Evolutionary System (MPES) is to develop fast, efficient parallel evolutionary systems for function optimization. Given an optimization problem and a set number of nodes available for the ...

A Metaheuristic for Autonomous and Self-Organizing Consensus Formation Inspired by Honey Bee Nest Site Selection Behavior

Mentis, Alexander (2014-12-04)

This research presents a self-organizing system for engineering consensus among cooperating, distributed processes and studying consensus negotiation in natural systems that use the quorum sensing mechanism. The presented ...

Opportunistic Random Access in CSMA/CA-Based Wireless Networks

Balasubramani, Jagadeesh (2013-10-18)

IEEE 802.11 MAC based CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) is the most widely used protocol in wireless networks. In CSMA/CA, every node listens to the shared wireless medium and transmits ...

Optimization Models for the Inspection of Electric Power System Assets Using Drones

Baik, Hyeoncheol (2019-07-09) ETD File Embargoed

To inspect electric power system assets, electric utilities have relied on inspection personnel and costly equipment. For example, the utilities inspect a power transmission tower by dispatching line crews and helicopters. ...

Optimizing Task Throughput for Large-scale Mobile Crowdsourcing in Smart Cities

Li, Wei (2021-08-09)

In mobile crowdsourcing, workers are financially motivated to perform as many self-selected tasks as possible to maximize their revenue. Unfortunately, the existing task scheduling approaches in mobile crowdsourcing fail ...

Performance Analysis of Collision Avoidance Schemes in Ad Hoc Networks

Bhandare, Suryakant (2012-04-11)

IEEE 802.11 DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) is a popular protocol used for the physical and MAC layers in most ad hoc networks. DCF employs carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) and a ...

Performance Evaluation of a Binary Exponential Code Backoff Algorithm for IEEE 802.11

Sun, Kang (2014-03-31)

IEEE 802.11 is the most widely deployed medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless access. Simple and efficient, this MAC protocol works well as the last wireless hop and is a key enabler of the widespread success ...

Performance Evaluation of Biased Queue Management

Li, Xiaoming (2006-08-15)

Congestion is an important issue which researchers focus on in the Transmission Control Protocol (\textit{TCP}) network environment. To keep the stability of the whole network, congestion control algorithms have been ...

Practical Stateless Geographical Routing (PSGR) - 3-D Stateless Geographic Routing for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

Lee, Sang (2008-05-15)

Underwater acoustic sensor networks have recently gained increasing research attentions due to their vast potential applications. Although the limited bandwidth and power resources in such networks have made stateless ...