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... is changing in the same proportions as the cost of capital B for an in increase in the capital cost γ The initial price of the contract V0 which excludes the cost of capital remains indifferent ... definition for the cost of capital by considering the incompleteness of the insurance market Then we analyse the impact of the cost of capital on the valuation of insurance contracts In Section we ... important insight into the sources of value creation (for instance investments, mortality, lapses ) The main drawback remains the inability to value the costs of options and guarantees The use of deterministic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 13:04

... assigns initial bandwidth, UGS, rtPS, nrtPS and BE, based on the requested bandwidth of UGS, the required minimum bandwidth of rtPS and nrtPS and the queue length of BE service respectively If remaining ... downlink scheduling, others on uplink scheduling, and others on both scheduling (downlink and uplink) The Figure shows the general classification of WiMAX scheduling mechanisms Taking into account ... scheduling is implemented in the Subscriber Station (uplink traffic) and in the Base Station (downlink and uplink traffic) The Figure shows the packets scheduling in the Base Station (BS) and in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... uplink traffic strongly depends on the CAC algorithm Scheduling has also been studied intensively in many disciplines, such as CPU task scheduling in operating systems, service scheduling in ... Table Main parameters of the simulation 99 Scheduling Algorithm and Bandwidth Allocation in WiMAX In particular, we consider several comparable scheduling algorithms, including WRR, EDF, and TRS ... for the remaining users under high SINR assumption 114 Quality of Service and Resource Allocation in WiMAX Will-be-set-by -IN- TECH 10 3) Power minimization with individual rate constraints Now assume...

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... pseudorandomly, thereby resulting in interference averaging as explained in Byeong Gi Lee & Sunghyun Choi (2008) 118 Quality of Service and Resource Allocation in WiMAX Will-be-set-by -IN- TECH ... in a single RAT scenario Most of the research effort is thus on the vertical handovers management, in order to optimize the resource usage, maintaining an adequate quality -of- service and acting ... requirement of user k in nats/s/Hz ergodic capacity associated with user k GNR of user k in bands I, P A resp sharing factors of user k in bands I, Pc resp power allocated to user k in bands I, P...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... left to the choice of the provider State of the art 3.1 Bandwidth sharing strategies: background To maintain a quality of service required by the constraining and restricting services, there are ... Quality of Service and Resource Allocation in WiMAX Will-be-set-by -IN- TECH autonomous RAT switching strategy and the assisted RAT switching strategy and we extend the investigation to the case of ... following sections To this end, and in a seek of simplicity of the presentation, we will suppose in these sections that system defines only two service classes and (instead of the classes defined in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... structure defined in the IEEE 802.16 standard for TDD in PMP mode is shown in Fig Each frame has a duration of Δ and is divided into uplink and downlink subframes At the beginning of a downlink subframe, ... Combined Fixed and Mobile Operation in Licensed Bands Jeffrey G et al (2007) Fundamentals of WiMAX Understanding Broadband Wireless Networking, Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging ... standard (IEEE 802.16 standard, 2009) In particular, the frame duration is msec consisting of 2500 mini slots each of 0.4 μsec length Each bandwidth request consists of mini slots including mini...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... uplink channel and the UL-MAP contains the physical specifications and also the time allocation of 202 Quality of Service and Resource Allocation in WiMAX resources After the downlink and uplink ... satisfy the growing demands of fixed and mobile users, while increasing the profits of the content providers With regard to Quality of Service (QoS) control, the WiMAX system provides service differentiation ... CoS has a mandatory set of QoS parameters that must be included in the service flow definition when the class of service is adapted to a service flow The main parameters are the following: traffic...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... be an intermediate step between Link and System-level simulation where the capacity of a single cell and a single Base Station, providing service for multiple users, is evaluated by means of comprehensive ... is put on the main differences in handling QoS in both 4G systems Even though the underling technologies differ in many aspects, it is important to Evaluation of QoS and QoE in Mobile WIMAX – ... Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) Applications usually express their bandwidth requirements in bits (bytes) per second In OFDM/ OFDMA systems utilizing ACM each user can use coding and modulation...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... operating layer is able to classify the incoming SDU by addressing to cross-layer table for inserting the correct information in the defined header field to inform lower layer of the requested services ... conferencing Healthcare services Example(s) • Virtual multi-disciplinary team meeting in Cancer Care • Support for Minor Injury Units • Training and supervision • Prison to hospital Remote monitoring ... Skinner et al., 2006; Bobadilla et al., 2007), the priority-level approach is introduced for on-line and off-line clinical activities On-line application type includes multimedia connections of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... Division Multiplexing (OFDM) as a way of increasing symbol length to guard against multi-path interference The sub-carriers inherent in OFDM were adapted for multi-user usage by means of Orthogonal ... and Resource Allocation in WiMAX One of the drivers of WiMAX’s development is its suitability (because of centralized scheduling using TDD) for video streaming Video streaming, as a part of Internet ... overflow, routing (in ad hoc and mesh networks), and resource management In WiMAX multicast mode, scheduling decisions for the real-time Polling Service (rtPS) queue, one of the WiMAX quality of service...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... operating conditions, and interleaving lengths 314 Quality of Service and Resource Allocation in WiMAX Fig 5.2 Architecture of the degrading concealment interleaving system Combining interleaving ... which interleavers are active in the interleaving path and thus the aggregate interleaving length at any time, a memory for storing information during interleaving and mappings between information ... implementation of the public safety wireless video system With the past surge of the commercialization of the Internet, the continuing expansion of wireless services, and the increasing usage of multimedia...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... assigns initial bandwidth, UGS, rtPS, nrtPS and BE, based on the requested bandwidth of UGS, the required minimum bandwidth of rtPS and nrtPS and the queue length of BE service respectively If remaining ... Polling Service (ErtPS) , nonreal-time polling service (nrtPS), and Best Effort (BE) Each of these scheduling services has a mandatory set of QoS parameters that must be included in the service ... scheduling is implemented in the Subscriber Station (uplink traffic) and in the Base Station (downlink and uplink traffic) The Figure shows the packets scheduling in the Base Station (BS) and in...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 01:20

... burden of MBD comprises direct costs, indirect costs and intangible costs Direct costs has two strands Firstly, the costs to the government of organizing and operating psychiatric hospital services: ... Table 2: Direct and indirect costs of MBD (1 US$ = Ksh 65 in 1998/99) Cost components Cost (US$) Direct costs: (1) Total cost of operating and organizing psychiatric services (2) Out -of- pocket expenses ... the cost of food and cooking gas; NP is the cost of nonpharmaceutical supplies; MA is the cost of materials; ME is the cost of vehicles, equipment and building maintenance; RR is the rent and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... study of schizophrenia, this study provides new and useful information about the cost of relapse and its cost components in the United States, the predictors of relapse, and the important role of ... acute care costs of relapsed patients were accompanied by higher costs for various outpatient services and medication, suggesting that the cost of relapse is not confined to the cost of hospitalizations ... having health insurance, and poorer level of functioning The use of these predictors in clinical practice may help improve allocation of resources, such as active case management and adherence interventions,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... [42] The costs of family interventions mainly consisted of start-up costs (development and training) and ongoing costs (services, supplies, travel and salary) We assumed that the family intervention ... considered costs to patients and families (time and travel costs) Discounting at 3% was applied to both costs and benefits to be consistent with the study of Burden of Disease in Thailand and in line ... intervention cost) Sensitivity analysis One way sensitivity analysis was undertaken for (a) intervention costs including and excluding time and travel costs of patients and families; and (b) varying costs...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... case of sensor networks In databases, the information is stored somewhere and the problem of handing information translates to a problem of searching and fetching the necessary information In the ... Quality of Information The main goal of operation of sensor networks is collection of information about events and phenomena happening in the area where the sensors are deployed Therefore, in deciding ... includes parameters due to particular process of obtaining the information and object level includes parameters of information in the form as it is stored in the database However, the model of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 14:22

... Mach runs on the majority of workstations and mainframes within the Department of Computer Science, and supports projects in distributed computing and parallel processing such as the Camelot distributed ... space and capabilities of that task 3.2 Inter-Process Communication Inter-process communication (IPC) in Mach is defined in terms of ports and messages These constructs provide for location independence, ... a memory object and offset within that memory object Additional information stored for each range includes protection and inheritance information To account for sharing through inheritance, Mach...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... Facial pain increases nausea and headache during motion sickness in migraine sufferers Brain 2004;127(Pt 3):526-34 Brandt T, Strupp M Migraine and vertigo: Classification, clinical features, and special ... history of visually-induced motion sickness using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test Data regarding the amount of anxiety induced by the combinations of pain and visual motion based on SUDs indicated ... models 34-36 and tryptophan depletion has been found to increase visually-induced nausea and dizziness in migraineurs Based on our results and the known effects of rizatriptan and serotonin, we hypothesize...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57

... sequencing batch mode, and the effluent discharge is normally performed in the morning and/ or evening Therefore, the concentration might increased in the morning and evening Actually, in the morning, ... performed in tributary rivers of the Tone River basin in Japan where the surface water is utilized for the main production of drinking water for people living in the Tokyo metropolitan area In addition, ... study is to investigate the annual and diurnal profiles of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in river water which is used for drinking water sources For this purpose, frequent monitoring of protozoans...

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