An electro-mechanical contact formulation for DRY/WET electrode-scalp interfaces in an EEG headset

The process of generating an initial prototype for a new dry electrode wearable EEG headset system design can be time and resource intensive. The ability to predict the mechanical and electrical characteristics of this recording device could lead to major cost savings in this process. Since the skin surface roughness has a deep impact on the decrease of brain electric contact conductance (or the increase of the contact impedance) when electrode with bristles contact scalp skin, the estimation of electric conductance across rough dry and wet boundaries is a challenging task in the designing optimization of the wearable EEG headset system. In this contribution, the contact mechanism to predict the electrical impedance of scalp skin pressed against the electrode is considered as the electrical connection by the mechanical contact. With this, we have extended the Pohrt and Popov model by including the effects of conductive gel. An experiment is developed and carried-out to validate the interfacial contact impedance model

Towards a GNU/Linux IEEE 802.21 Implementation

Abstract-Multiaccess mobile devices and overlapping wireless network deployments have emerged as a next generation network fixture. To make the most of all available networks, mobile devices should be capable of handing over between heterogeneous networks seamlessly and automatically. At the same time, operators should be able to steer network attachment based on their criteria. Although several cross layer mechanisms have been proposed in recent years, only the Media Independent Handover (MIH) Services framework has advanced in any of the established standardization bodies. This paper presents a blueprint for a GNU/Linux implementation of IEEE 802.21. We review the salient points of the standard, introduce our software implementation architecture, detail information gathering in GNU/Linux, and show how our prototype implementation can be used in practice. In contrast with prior published work, this paper presents a real IEEE 802.21 implementation, not an abstracted or reduced MIH-like framework, tested and empirically evaluated over real heterogeneous networks

A grid-enabled Web Map server

Today Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide several tools for studying and analyzing varied human and natural phenomena, therefore GIS and geospatial data has grown so much in both public and private organizations. A Challenge is the integration of these data to get innovative and exhaustive knowledge about topics of interest. In this paper we describe the design of a Web Map Service (WMS) OGC-compliant, through the use of grid computing technology and demonstrate how this approach can improve, w.r.t. security, performance, efficiency and scalability, the integration of geospatial multi-source data. End users, with a single sign-on, securely and transparently, gets maps whose data are distributed on heterogeneous data sources belonging to one o more Virtual Organizations via distributed queries in a grid computing environment

Performance of a shared tree multicast label filter architecture

This paper defines a new multicast filter algorithm. This algorithm is used to filter packets on a mobile multicast architecture using a multicast shared tree. In a mobile multicast architecture, communications between a corresponding node (source) and the mobile node (receiver) should be private and not be sent to every node (receivers) on the multicast tree. We propose using an algorithm that sets up a label sub-tree on an existing mobile multicast shared tree to filter packets based on these labels. Our proposed label filter architecture is implemented differently to the current MPLS architecture. In this paper, we validate the effectiveness of the label filter in mobile communication compared to the traditional method of creating a new multicast tree by analysing the message and time complexity of the algorithm against the setting up time of a new multicast shared tree

Towards a GNU/Linux IEEE 802.21 Implementation

Abstract-Multiaccess mobile devices and overlapping wireless network deployments have emerged as a next generation network fixture. To make the most of all available networks, mobile devices should be capable of handing over between heterogeneous networks seamlessly and automatically. At the same time, operators should be able to steer network attachment based on their criteria. Although several cross layer mechanisms have been proposed in recent years, only the Media Independent Handover (MIH) Services framework has advanced in any of the established standardization bodies. This paper presents a blueprint for a GNU/Linux implementation of IEEE 802.21. We review the salient points of the standard, introduce our software implementation architecture, detail information gathering in GNU/Linux, and show how our prototype implementation can be used in practice. In contrast with prior published work, this paper presents a real IEEE 802.21 implementation, not an abstracted or reduced MIH-like framework, tested and empirically evaluated over real heterogeneous networks

Implementing label filters on a shared tree mobile multicast architecture

This paper describes an architecture that filters packets within a subset of nodes on an existing shared multicast tree. The path connecting the group of nodes that want to communicate privately on the existing tree was given a label. These labels are used to route one-to-one and group communication traffic for selected nodes on a multicast tree. Nodes connected to the tree but are not on this label path do not receive any filtered packets. This filter architecture reduces network resource waste by utilising the existing network resources on the multicast tree like quality of service (QoS). In this paper, we also describe how this architecture can be used for mobile communication when implemented in a shared tree mobile multicast architecture