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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Network routing"”.
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Network routing problems in stochastic-state networks
Network Routing problems focus on exploiting the network-based struc- ture of a mathematical optimization problem to establish e cient solutions that are tailored to the problem at hand. The topic of this dissertation relates to a speci c class of network routing problems, those in which the …
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Securing mobile ad hoc network routing protocols
A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes that forms a provisional network dynamically without the aid of any predetermined infrastructure. The salient nature of ad hoc networks renders them vulnerable to numerous types of security attacks. The dynamic feature of ad hoc …
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Analytic modelling of agent-based network routing algorithms.
Interest in adaptive and distributed systems for routing control in networks has led to the development of a new class of algorithms, which is inspired by the shortest path finding behaviours observed in biological ant colonies. This class utilizes ant-like agents, which autonomously traverse the …
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An analysis of network routing and communication latency
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1997.
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Computer Network Routing with a Fuzzy Neural Network
The growing usage of computer networks is requiring improvements in network technologies and management techniques so users will receive high quality service. As more individuals transmit data through a computer network, the quality of service received by the users begins to degrade. A major aspect …
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Mobile Ad-hoc Network Routing Protocols: Methodologies and Applications
A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a wireless network that uses multi-hop peer-to-peer routing instead of static network infrastructure to provide network connectivity. MANETs have applications in rapidly deployed and dynamic military and civilian systems. The network topology in a MANET usually …
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The Multipath Fault-Tolerant Protocol for Routing in Packet-Switched Communication Network
… improved service quality to applications, networks need to address the need for reliability of data delivery. Reliability can be improved by incorporating fault tolerance into network routing, wherein a set of multiple routes are used for routing between a given source and destination. This …
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Application of order-based genetic algorithms to network path searching and location estimation
Given an incompletely connected network of nodes, populations of multiple redundant paths from each node to every other node are sought. Examples of such a scenario include telecommunications network routing, inventory control, and VLSI routing. The problem of location estimation for a network of …
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The Role of Intelligent Mobile Agents in Network Management and Routing
… mobile agents to the management of distributed network environments is investigated. Intelligent mobile agents are programs which can move about network systems in a deterministic manner in carrying their execution state. These agents can be considered an application of distributed artificial …
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A Distributed Reinforcement Learning based Intelligent Routing and Beamforming Design for Robot-assisted Mobile Ad-hoc Network under Uncertain and Complex Environment
… and practicality of robot-assisted Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) by integrating reinforcement learning into network development and wireless communication. Specifically, 1) Under the background of Delay tolerant network (DTN), how to improve the effectiveness of the real-time routing in a …
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Game-theoretic methods for security and resilience in cyber-physical systems
… including robust and resilient control, secure network routing and management of information security and smart grid energy systems. Hybrid distributed reinforcement learning algorithms are developed as practical modeling tools for defense systems with different levels of rationality and …
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Joint mobile network operations routing design and quality of service configuration
Current inter-Service military networking is inefficient and lacks the desired level of Joint interoperability. Generally, the different Service branches build stove-piped networks that do not allow sharing of resources with the other branches. This approach is taken because the individual networks …
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Evaluating and improving collection tree protocol in mobile wireless sensor network
… nodes. Mobility poses many challenges to the routing protocols used in such applications. In this thesis we evaluate the performance of Collection Tree Protocol as applied in mobile WSN scenarios. The simulation study shows CTP performs poorly in mobile scenario because of the frequent tree …
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Adaptive control of communication networks using learning automata.
This research investigates communications network routing procedures, based on distributed learning automata concepts for circuit and packet switched networks. For this application, the learning automaton is shown to be an ideal adaptive control mechanism, with simple feedback and updating …
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New Security Paradigms for Spacecraft and Networks: Metrics, Testbeds, and Scalable Solutions
… further into space, the emerging heterogeneous networks that interconnect these systems face significant challenges in security and resilience—areas often discussed but infrequently demonstrated. This dissertation addresses these challenges through four primary contributions. First, it presents …
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Failure Diagnosis for Datacenter Applications
… both fail-stop and gray failures, and (3) a network architecture that produces predictable routes, simplifying failure localization without sacrificing load balancing and other network features. I present two complementary systems to demonstrate this. The first, Deepview, is a system that can …
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Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols and ML-based Enhancements for UAV-Assisted Post-Disaster Communication Networks
… The collapse of existing communication networks poses challenges for First-Responders (FRs) in locating survivors during Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and for survivors to communicate for emergency aid. To alleviate post-disaster consequences and save lives, Uncrewed Air Vehicles …
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Energy efficiency in data collection wireless sensor networks
… constrained and heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for data collection applications in real-world scenarios. The problem is addressed from three different perspectives: network routing, node energy profiles, and network management. First, the energy efficiency in a WSN is formulated …
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On network coding capacity : matroidal networks and network capacity regions
One fundamental problem in the field of network coding is to determine the network coding capacity of networks under various network coding schemes. In this thesis, we address the problem with two approaches: matroidal networks and capacity regions. In our matroidal approach, we prove the converse …
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Visualizing Categorical Time Series Data with Applications to Computer and Communications Network Traces
… analysis, World Wide Web traffic analysis, network routing simulations, document comparison, pattern detection, and the analysis of the performance of genetic algorithms.
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