Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordTIME SERIES MODELING OF MONTHLY RAINFALL IN ARID AREAS: CASE STUDY FOR SAUDI ARABIANidhal SaadaStochastic techniques are essential in planning and management of water resources systems especially in arid and semi-arid areas where water is scarce. The forecasting of future events requires identifying proper stochastic models to be used in this process. For this purpose, a Periodic ARMA (PARMA) model and a temporal disaggregation models were used in this study to investigate weather they … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 3 · 3 May 2014 · 7,204 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordCOGNITIVE AGENTS BASED SECURITY SCHEME TO HANDLE ROUTING LOOPS IN WIRELESS NETWORKSR. Kumar, G. KousalyaRouters in wireless networks are often prone to variety of attacks like a man in the middle, distributed denial of service, smurf, ping of death, routing loops, counting to infinity. Among all these attacks routing loop is the most common one and it have a harmful effect on network performance. In this study, we have proposed a novel cognitive agents … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 9 · 19 Apr 2014 · 6,717 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordA NEW FAMILY OF GENERALIZED GAMMA DISTRIBUTION AND ITS APPLICATIONSatsayamon Suksaengrakcharoen, Winai BodhisuwanThe mixture distribution is defined as one of the most important ways to obtain new probability distributions in applied probability and several research areas. According to the previous reason, we have been looking for more flexible alternative to the lifetime data. Therefore, we introduced a new mixed distribution, namely the Mixture Generalized Gamma (MGG) distribution, which is obtained by mixing … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 10, Issue 2 · 9 Apr 2014 · 7,930 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordEVALUATION OF HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL BASED ADAPTIVE PROVISIONING OF OPTICAL BURST SWITCHING NETWORKS AMENABLE FOR UPGRADATION TO GREEN FLEXIGRID NETWORKSP. G.V. Ramesh, Prita NairCatering to the evolving bandwidth-on-demand applications requires flexible provisioning architectures that ensure fairness to both high end and low end users of internet. Dynamic classification of network paths into long and short, based on traffic dependent connection holding times and a wavelength allocation from different subsets for these categories is a necessity for implementing energy saving hybrid switching, loss recovery … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 5 · 16 Jan 2014 · 6,517 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordTHE DYNAMIC NONCE BASED AUTHENTICATION SCHEME TO DEFEND INTERMEDIARY ATTACK FOR WEB SERVICESElangovan Uma, Arputharaj KannanNowadays, Web services have used drastically for various online applications like banking, e-bill processing. All online services need robust security architecture for handling sensitive data like user name, password. But, The Web service has security problems that need to be solved. The existing security scheme lacks to defend the attacks from replay and password guessing attacks. In this study we … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 9, Issue 8 · 4 Jul 2013 · 6,850 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordREPRESENTING MARKOV CHAINS WITH TRANSITION DIAGRAMSFarida KachapovaStochastic processes have many useful applications and are taught in several university programmes. Students often encounter difficulties in learning stochastic processes and Markov chains, in particular. In this article we describe a teaching strategy that uses transition diagrams to represent a Markov chain and to re-define properties of its states in simple terms of directed graphs. This strategy utilises the … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 9, Issue 3 · 17 May 2013 · 7,534 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordBayesian Changepoint Analysis of the Extreme Rainfall EventsWan Zawiah Wan Zin, Abdul Aziz Jemain, Kamarulzaman IbrahimProblem statement: This study assesses recent changes in extremes of annual rainfall in Peninsular Malaysia based on daily rainfall data for 50 rain-gauged stations over the period 1975-2004. Approach: Eight indices that represent the extreme events are defined and analyzed, which are extreme Dry Spell (XDS), extreme Rain-Sum (XRS), extreme wet-day intensities at 95% and 99% percentiles (I95 and I99), … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 6 Feb 2012 · 7,250 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordDetection of Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Meat ProductsAsma M.M.A. Abdelgadir, Kunwar K. Srivastava, P. Gopal ReddyProblem statement: The objective of this study was to develop a rapid and sensitive method for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes and to screen large number of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat samples. Approach: A total of 250 fresh RTE meat samples of different varieties (chicken, turkey, beef, pork and cold cuts) were purchased from local grocery stores. Results: From the 250 … …American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 30 Jan 2012 · 7,421 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordMetro Access Convergence for Broadband Future Low Energy Consumption NetworksG.M. Tosi Beleffi, E. Leitgeb, G. Incerti et al.Problem statement: In study the impact of the optical technologies and infrastructures on the reduction of the carbon footprint maintaining high level of broadband to the end user is discussed. Approach: Authors analyze the main energy consumers in Core, Metro and Access Networks as well as the topology and the performaces of the EU FP7 SARDANA Project, a long reach … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 12 Jan 2012 · 7,646 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordCongestion Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks by Enhancement of Transmission Control ProtocolN. Premalatha, A. M. NatarajanProblem statement: Transmission Control Protocol is the Internet’s most widely used transport control protocol. TCP’s strength lies in the adaptive nature of its congestion avoidance and control algorithm and its retransmission mechanism. In TCP Vegas rerouting (a path), which change the propagation delay of the connection and this may be able to result in a substantial decrease in through put. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 12 · 17 Oct 2011 · 6,688 accessesView PDFCite