We investigate the problem of efficient resource control for elastic traffic over the EDCA (Enhanced Distributed Channel Access) and HCCA (Hybrid Coordination Function - HCF - Controlled Channel Access) mechanisms of IEEE 802.11e. Our approach consi
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. A convincing economic, political and cultural analysis of waning Western dominance and the rise of China and a new paradigm of modernity. Jacques (The Politics of Thatcherism) takes the pulse of the nation pois
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Based on recent scientific expeditions into the Pacific Ocean Gyre (a convergence zone where debris is accumulating), a wide variety of technical and scientific problems associated with this debris mass are coming to light. While dumping waste into
This study has been commissioned by Ofcom to enable it to develop its strategic response to the emerging Cognitive Radio (CR) debate, both nationally and internationally. The study, therefore, builds on previous Software Defined Radio reports1,2 and
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The environmental Kuznets curve is a hypothesized relationship between various indicators of environmental degradation and income per capita. In the early stages of economic growth degradation and pollution increase, but beyond some level of income
In this book, you will learn the fundamental concepts and principles that full-time MBA students learn and that also have applicability to professional services providers, small business owners, and entrepreneurs as well as corporations and industry
Despite their best efforts, researchers and policy-makers always have a limited understanding of the world as it was, is and will be. A common response to such uncertain complexity is to target concerns, to simplify them and to disconnect them from
over the last few years, there has been explosive growth in the research done at the interface of computer science, game theory, and economic theory, largely motivated by the emergence of the Internet. Algorithmic game theory develops the central id
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:)The first part of this book is devoted to network architectures, the second to electro-optical devices and techniques, the third to the higher layer issues and the fourth part to techno-economic analysis.
Passive optical network (PON) technologies have become an important broadband access technology as a result of the growing demand for bandwidth-hungry video-on-demand applications. Written by the leading researchers and industry experts in the field
This book is concerned with the descr iption and analysis of the global second generation (2G) mobile radio systems: the Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM) and cdmaOne. A subsidiary goal is to examine how these two systems will evolve into
