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The primary activity of this project has been to develop economic models giving the universities tools needed to understand and quantify the value of faculty accomplishments in teaching, mentoring, and advising. These tools will augment their existing tools for tracking funded research thus providing a more balanced view of the values of each activity. This understanding will provide the rational...
Fairness is an important management issue for peer-to-peer file sharing systems. In this paper, we study the credit system of the P2P file sharing network eMule (http://www.emule-project.net) through a simple queueing network model. Numerical analysis and experimental results show that this local credit strategy could effectively deal with free riders and provide fairness for the system during a single...
Developers of bulk data transfer applications have discovered that they can increase network utilization by transferring data over many sockets in parallel. We introduce a software model of parallel data transfer applications that leverages OPNET Modelerreg to adapt to a wide range of network scenarios. We also compare preliminary simulation results with real-world performance data.
The study of epidemics is a crucial issue to several areas. An epidemic can have devastating economic and social consequences. A single crop disease in Kansas could destroy the yearly income of many farmers. Previous work using graph theory has determined a universal epidemic threshold found in the graph topology for a binary contact network in the compartmental susceptible-infected (SI) analysis...
A new open laboratory environment is being developed to enhance the learning in several important ways: 1) laboratory projects in RF circuits, digital design, and signal processing courses that are typically isolated from each other will become interdependent; 2) students in "lecture-only" courses will utilize laboratory "homework" experiments so that they may more thoroughly understand...
The design of sophisticated electronic products in an academic setting is becoming more difficult due to the complexity inherent in modern systems. In this project, we are investigating methods to address this complexity and thereby give students a systems perspective and better preparation for the modern workforce. The methods involve developing/distributing pieces of a large design across multiple...
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