Resource allocation is a usual problem that must be faced during a distributed system design. Despite the large number of algorithms proposed in literature to solve this problem, most papers lack of detailed descriptions ...

The increase in multimedia content on the Internet has created a renewed interest in quality assessment. There is however a main difference from the traditional quality assessment approaches, as now, the focus relies on ...

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the inter-domain routing protocol that glues the Internet. BGP does not incorporate security and instead, it relies on careful configuration and manual filtering to offer some protection. ...

The aim of the present study was to measure bilateral asynchrony in patients suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) performing an incremental inspiratory load protocol. Bilateral asynchrony was estimated ...

Recent advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) techniques are providing a dramatic improvement in decision-making and automated control problems. As a result, we are witnessing a growing number of research works that ...

Avui en dia, les tecnologies de la informació (TIC) són les responsables del 2% de les emissions que contribueixen a l’efecte hivernacle És per això que cada cop es mes important mirar per l’estalvi energètic pel que fa ...

Broadband satellite constellation networks will be required to carry all types of IP traffic, real time interactive traffic as well as non-real time traffic, warranting the need for appropriate QoS for these different ...

Overlay networks are a technique to build a new network on top of an existing one. They are a key tool to add functionality to existing networks, and are used in different layers of the Internet stack for a wide variety ...

Non-invasive evaluation of respiratory activity is an area of increasing research interest, resulting in the appearance of new monitoring techniques, ones of these being based on the analysis of the diaphragm mechanomyographic ...

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) working group that develops media coding standards. These standards include ...