Communication

Transparent Offloading of Computationally Demanding Operations in Microsoft .NET
For many years, the group of preferred programming languages for writing algorithms meant for large clusters contains among others C/C++ and FORTRAN. However, normally one does not consider the Microsoft .NET programming languages as a part of this group. The reason for this is that only few tool...


Adjustment of mobility parameters for traffic steering in multi-RAT multi-layer wireless networks
Mobile broadband traffic has been increasing in the last years. To cope with such traffic demand,heterogeneous networks are an effective solution characterized by deploying networks with differentcell sizes, radio access technologies (RATs) and carrier frequencies. Since the coverage area of thes...
Anisotropic Diffusion for Details Enhancement in Multiexposure Image Fusion
We develop a multiexposure image fusion method based on texture features, which exploits the edge preserving and intraregion smoothing property of nonlinear diffusion filters based on partial differential equations (PDE). With the captured multiexposure image series, we first decompose images int...
Group delay modulation for pulse position coding based on periodically coupled C-sections
Chipless radio frequency identification (RFID) is an emerging research area nowadays. The recent development in this area proves its efficiency to compete with low cost identification systems like barcodes in the upcoming years. Chipless RFID encodes data using different kinds of spectral signatu...
Channel condition self-clocked packet scheduling scheme for wireless networks
Since mobile hosts suffer from burst and location-dependent channel errors in wireless networks, packet fair queueing algorithm in wireline networks cannot be applied directly to wireless networks. Generally, a fair scheduler in a wireless network retains the virtual time of flow when the flow en...
A low-complexity maximum likelihood decoder for tail-biting trellis
Tail-biting trellises are defined on a circular time axis and can have a smaller number of states thanequivalent conventional trellises. Existing circular Viterbi algorithms (CVAs) on the tail-biting trellisare non-convergent and sub-optimal. In this study, we show that the net path metric of eac...


Communication of political interest groups in Switzerland: Adressees, channels and instruments
We present a broad overview on the Swiss interest group population and the results of a quantitative online survey on the communication repertoire of 985 interest groups. We then discuss sample construction and the different addressees of interest group communication, the perceived relevance of m...
Value networks and two-sided markets of Internet content delivery
The volume and importance of content is increasing in the Internet, whereas the ability of the Internet architecture to scale to the growing demand for transport capacity is uncertain. Even though the natural growth in the demand continues, the growth in traffic volumes can be limited by reducing...
Minimized memory architecture for low latency viterbi decoder using zig-zag algorithm
This paper proposes a new architecture for efficient and minimized memory management in Viterbi Decoders based on Zig-Zag algorithm. The memory organization techniques mainly deal with the storage of survivor sequences from which the decoded information sequence is retrieved. The survivor sequenc...
Selective and Efficient Deoxygenation of Sulfoxides with NbCl5/Indium System
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Polymer-Supported Azide and Copper(I): Green Reusable Reagent and Catalyst for Click Cyclization
In this work, polymer-supported copper(I) iodide catalyst and macroporous polymer-supported azide reagent were used to simplify the synthesis of 1,4-disubstituted-1H-1,2,3-triazoles from α-bromo ketones/amides/esters following green chemistry principles. This new one-pot protocol facilitates the...


Social categorization and cross-cultural exploration of the third-person effect: Perceived impact of North Korea's nuclear test on the self and comparison targets
This experimental study explored the perceived media impact of North Korea's nuclear test on South Koreans and Americans to investigate whether a social categorization moderator affects a tendency to think that others will be more affected by the media. The results showed that the third-person pe...
The method of auxiliary sources applied to problems of electromagnetic wave diffraction by certain metal-dielectric structures
The method of auxiliary sources is applied to solve problems of electromagnetic wave diffraction by certain metal-dielectric structures that are finite 3D periodic lattices embedded in an ordinary dielectric. On the basis of the structures under study, the possibilities of designing antenna devic...
Ultrahigh-frequency surface electromagnetic waves in an open waveguide
An experiment in which guided propagation of surface electromagnetic waves (SEWs) on a free curved metal-dielectric interface was observed in the ultrahigh-frequency band (at frequencies of 850 and 1200 MHz) is described. The data on signal propagation over various paths and under various propaga...
Effect of transverse constant electric field on the electron interference effects related to the under-barrier penetration of quantum-mechanical current density in 2D semiconductor nanostructures
The effect of transverse constant electric field F on the under-barrier penetration of the local quantum-mechanical current density in a 2D semiconductor structure is theoretically studied. The structure represents two quantum wells with identical widths that are sequentially located along the pr...