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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"handoff"”.
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TCP offload through connection handoff
… In contrast, TCP offload based on connection handoff allows the operating system to move a subset of connections to the network interface. This way, both the host processor and the network interface perform TCP processing, and the operating system can control the amount of work performed on …
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Handoff management in the mobile wireless Internet
… challenge to sustain ongoing connections during handoff events. Real-time applications (e.g., Voice-Over-IP (VoIP), Video-Ondemand, and streaming) require little or no service disruptions during handoff because of their nature of being mostly delay-sensitive applications. The network must, …
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Handoff Management Schemes in Wireless Mesh Networks
… backbones and highly mobile clients, require new handoff management solutions to be designed and implemented. This thesis first presents our research work on handoff management schemes in traditional WMNs. In general, a handoff process includes two parts, the MAC layer handoff and the network …
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Evaluation of a Scientifically Developed Anesthesiology Handoff Protocol
… events in healthcare. Specifically, within handoffs, these communication failures can cause error in the transfer of patient information. A multitude of factors can affect the transmission of patient information between providers including transactive memory, power distance, and …
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Admission Handoff Between Emergency Department and Inpatient Units
… department (ED) to an inpatient unit, a handoff report is conducted. There are many ways the ED nurse can go about delivering this report to the inpatient or floor nurse. Each ED nurse tends to this task in their own way, providing the information they deem important. Due to the absence …
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Standardized post-anesthesia handoff to improve interdepartmental communication
… attempts to observe if the standardization of handoff between the CRNAs and PACU RNs can improve communication between the two teams and eliminate the gaps in communication to increase preparedness of the PACU RNs, and ultimately decrease mistakes and improve patient safety.
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Efficient spectrum-handoff schemes for cognitive radio networks
Radio spectrum access is important for terrestrial wireless networks, commercial earth observations and terrestrial radio astronomy observations. The services offered by terrestrial wireless networks, commercial earth observations and terrestrial radio astronomy observations have evolved due to …
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Context-aware handoff support for wireless access networks
The phenomenal emergence of several heterogeneous wireless networks and technologies has allowed users to have access to IP services anywhere, at anytime, from any network and with whatever terminal they use. This computing platform has been driven by the rapid evolution of mobile devices that are …
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An Effective Dynamic Handoff Support for Mobile Media Network
… continuous service is achieved by supporting handoff (or handover) from one cell to another. Handoff is the process of changing the channel associated with the current connection while a call is in progress. It is often initiated either by crossing a cell boundary or by deterioration in …
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A learning-based scheme to optimise a cognitive handoff
The evolution of communication standards promotes the development and use of several spectrum-sharing strategies. From the noted results, machine-learning techniques have paved a direction for radio protocols to achieve better levels of performance. With their definition, efficient learning …
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Generic Adaptive Handoff Algorithms Using Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks
Efficient handoff algorithms cost-effectively enhance the capacity and Quality of Service (QoS) of cellular systems. This research presents novel approaches for the design of high performance handoff algorithms that exploit attractive features of several existing algorithms, provide adaptation to …
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Adaptive Predictive Handoff Scheme with Channel Borrowing in Cellular Network
… reservation (PCR) scheme, called HPCR_CB, for handoff motivated by the rapid evolving technology of mobile positioning. In this thesis, the author proposes a new scheme, called adaptive PCR_CB (APCR_CB), which is an extension of HPCR_CB by incorporating the concept of adaptive guard channels. …
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Seamless video handoff in session mobility over the IMS network
… mobility between devices. Providing seamless handoff in session mobility is a challenging, and vital, issue relating to the heterogeneous next generation All-IP networks. The research work outlined by this thesis describes a solution to support seamless video handoff in session mobility over …
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A framework for fast handoff schemes in wireless ATM networks
… (PVCs) in order to facilitate fast inter-cluster handoffwith minimum handofflatency. This research addresses a framework on handoff mobility by proposing three fast handoff re-routing schemes based on the support of PVCs.
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Electrostatically Levitated Object Handoff to Minimize Wear and Particle Generation
… the semiconductor manufacturing process, object handoff between stages is one of the significant particle generation mechanisms. Vibrations in the handoff and pickup stages generate impact forces on the object and cause relative sliding between contact surfaces, leading to wear and particle …
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Uplink Power Control and Soft Handoff Prioritization in Multimedia DS-CDMA
… admission control algorithm. By introducing soft handoff waiting queue and guard channel into the soft handoff algorithm, we compare the power control influence on a base case (which is similar to IS95 algorithm, but with perfect power control) and proposed call admission control algorithm. The …
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A constrained MDP-based vertical handoff decision algorithm for wireless networks
… To achieve this goal, the support of vertical handoff is important in mobility management. This thesis focuses on the vertical handoff decision algorithm, which determines the criteria under which vertical handoff should be performed. The problem is formulated as a constrained Markov decision …
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EMS to Trauma Care Transitions: An Investigation of Patient and Handoff Outcomes
… service to emergency department trauma center handoff where information transfer between helicopter medical teams and trauma teams may be higher than ground team. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation is to advance the understanding of the relationship between patient health outcomes and …
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Designing an Audit and Feedback System to Drive Handoff Redesign and Implementation
Pages i-vii are misnumbered as pages ii-viii.
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A Location-aided Decision Algorithm for Handoff Across Heterogeneous Wireless Overlay Networks
… cell, which significantly increases the rate of handoff. If the user does not spend sufficient time in the discovered WLAN's coverage area, the application cannot benefit from the higher data rates. Therefore, the data interruption and performance degradation associated with the handoff cannot be …
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