A simple, low-cost plasma reactor was developed for the purpose of carrying out thin film deposition experiments. The reactor is based largely on the Atmospheric Pressure Nonequilibrium Plasma (APNEP) design with a simple ...

Recent advances in fiber optics technology have enabled extremely high-speed transport of different forms of data, on multiple wavelengths of an optical fiber, using Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM). It has ...

The phenomenal growth of digital multimedia applications has forced the communications

Ever since the proposal of turbo code in 1993, there has been extensive research carried out to improve both the performance and spectrum efficiency. One of the methods used to improve the spectrum efficiency was to ...

Technologies such as WiFi and WiMAX, can be a powerful driving force for increasing rural

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the most widely used transport protocol in the Internet. TCP is a reliable transport protocol that is tuned to perform well in wired networks where packet losses are mainly due ...

Wireless mobile communication is witnessing a rapid growth in, and demand for, improved technology and range of information types and services. Further, third generation cellular networks are expected to provide mobile ...

The Internet has experienced a tremendous growth over the past two decades and with that growth have come severe congestion problems. Research efforts to alleviate the congestion problem can broadly be classified into three ...

Wireless radio access technologies have been progressively evolving to meet the high data rate demands of consumers. The deployment and success of voice-based second generation networks were enabled through the use of the ...

Telecommunications in the current information age is increasingly relying on the wireless link. This is because wireless communication has made possible a variety of services ranging from voice to data and now to multimedia. ...